SMOKE SIGNALS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 19 May 1916, Page 8

SMOKE SIGNALS.

A .French paper gives the tstor.y of smoke from a chimney being employed to give information to the enemy. Tito members of a battalion of French infantry that had moved into well-covered country and thought themselves concealed wore inundated with shells. The officers were astonished .at the accuracy with which these shells were delivered, and .sought to find who was giving signals t« tfip enemy. In a farmhouse at no groat distance from the battalion a German, disguised as a peasant, was found seated before a chimner in which was a great wood fire. 'Phe pseudo-peasant was alternately rai- : ng and lowering a chimney cover or screen, which caused th" smoke to come from the chimney in long or short putt's as he desired. While doing this he looked through a 'window ueon the fields where the French battalion was performing its evolutions. These signals, which had bren agreed 111)011 between the spy snd the enemy, readily informed the of the movements of the little troop. On discovery of thi.s stratagem the false peasant was arrested and immediately shot.