BREACH OF CENSORSHIP REGULATIONS
INFORMATION GIVEN ABOUT TROOP MOVEMENTS (P A.) HASTINGS, May 5. A letter to a friend in the Navy in which he gave information about troop movements and the defences of this country led to the appearance of Leonard Edward Hatch, a clerk, before Mr J. Miller, in the Magistrate s Court to-day on a charge of having written in a manner likely to prejudice the public safety, in that he gave information about the movements of His Majesty’s forces. Hatch pleaded guilty and was fined £6. Detective-Sergeant Revell said that the defendant was holding a prominent position, and it was hard to con-t ceive why he should have offended. It was conceded that there was nothing sinister in the action. The Magistrate said that the letter contained inforrhation of the sort .the authorities did not' want, whether there was anything sinister in it or not. '
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23630, 6 May 1942, Page 3
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