The Washington herald., 1907-10-27
TOGUARD
British War Office Uses Most
Extreme Methods.
KEPT IN HIGHLAND FASTNESS
shepherds Use Powerful Field
Glasses from Points of Vantage To
and Condition Amounting Almost
to Martial Law Is Maintained.

Edinburgh. Oct 26.-The extraordinary
precautions that are being taken by the
war office authorities TO maintain the
secret of the aeroplane invented by Lieut..
Dunn, now being completed In one Of the
widest parts OF the Scottish Highlands.
make the whole enterprise one Of the
most romantic in the history Of aero
nautics.
On a plateau high above sea level a
little encampmeEt accommodates forty
men. a mile away, on the other side Of
a deep depression, is the shed twenty
feet high and sixty feet long, in which
the aeroplane IS being built.
A small model has been tested and ap-
proved. but the experts have now settled
down 20 the task Of perfecting a working
aeroplane which may be Of use in the
next army maneuvers.
spying on the Spies.
Blair Castle. where the Marquis OF
TUlllbardine is residing while he over
looks operations generally, and directs a
large staff o. spy-hunters. is several miles
away There are no houses al all from
which can be seen either the encamp-
ment OF the shed. The foreign spies and
inquisitive strangers who haunt the dis
trict nave met with so many rebuns that
they are becoming desperate They are
flr more spied upon than spies.
Shepherds with powerful field glasses
occupy every point Of vantage. Thick
mists surround the mountain tops and
bewilder the unwary wanderer, who may
/ easily find himself foundering knee deep
in a dangerous bog. One ingenious youth
who, clad as a tramp. arrived within a
mile or so OF the shed. spent a cold
damp night on the hillside for his pains.
The whole district belongs to the do
mains Of the Duke Of Atholl, whose heir
is Lord Tullibardine, and there is but
one road of any description in the neigh
borhood Of the valley Of the Tilt
All Strangers Suspected.
When a stranger arrives at DunkeId
OT Blair AthoL his presence is at once
communicated TO the marquis. and some
one is told Off to watch him. II he men
ti0ns the word "aeroplane" in cottage
or farmhouse he meets only a stony
Scottish stare. It has been intimated To
every one on the Atholl estates that the
slightest treachery on the part of a resi-
dent will involve his seeking a home
elsewhere, and a long way off.
War Office authority also. is not to be
defed The district is practically under
martial law, a state Of things unusual
/ in this country. But there is not the
slightest doubt that this eDoch-making
discovery If il fulfus Whitehall and
Aldershot expectations, is Of such i'm
mense national Importance that stringent
measures to insure privacy are fully jus
titled
The least an unlUcky foreigner found
trespassing near the encampment nav
expect is a ducking in a mountain pool
OF stream.
If he had the misfortune to learn any
thing Of Importance, and fail to get clear
away with his knowledge, he would prob
ably spend some weeks or months in the
quiet seclusiOn of an impromptu jai on
the hillside
So many vain attempts have been made
to bTibe and corrupt the Athon retain
ers that a very strong feeling of resent
ment is growing among them.