KING’S MESSENGERS.
ESCORTS TO BE PROVIDED. A number of suspicious incidents have prompted the decision to provide armed detectives for King’s Messengers carrying dispatches. These occurred recently when King’s Messengers were passing through neutral countries. The escorts are being provided by Sir Philip Game, the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, at the request of the Foreign Office. It has long been the custom of King’s Messengers to tin’ el alone. Former officers of tho Special Branch of Scotland Yard are being called out of retirement to act as the “shadows.”
All are men of wide experience in acting as bodyguards to statesmen and Royalty. They know foreign countries and the international crooks in tho underworld of Continental cities. Many of thorn speak a number of foreign languages fluently. They will continue to draw their police pension while on war sendee, and, in addition, will receive special rates of pay and expenses from the Foreign Office.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 61, Issue 39, 26 November 1940, Page 8
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