LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION TO THE ENEMY

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 91, 17 April 1943, Page 7

LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION TO THE ENEMY

The most patriotic citizen can unwittingly provide a scrap of information overheard in conversation, or can include an apparently innocent remark in a letter which, when collected with hundreds of other scraps, provides information of real value to the enemy. It must be remembered that the enemy intelligence organisation is world-wide, and that enemy agents are by no means obvious as such. They are ordinary-looking individuals and they are on the job night and day, in trains, trams, hotels, crowded shops and in the street, and they have sharp ears. Therefore don't talk about any matter of the slightest significance in regard to the Army, Navy, Air Force or Shipping, and when writing letters do not leave it to the Censor. Remember that he has thousands of other letters besides yours to deal with, and that overseas mail is regarded as a rich prize by the enemy. Be on your guard all the time against careless talk and careless writing. Avoid it, and discourage it at every opportunity. Inserted to assist the war effort by the proprietors of Baxters Lung Preserver.— I (Ad.)