THE HUMOUR OF WAR
CHANNEL BARRAGE HOAX
HOW THE U-BOATS WERE SCARED
(UMTBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTBIOHI.)
(AUSTItALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLI ASSOCIATION.)
(Received December 23, 11' a.m.)
LONDON, 22nd December.
It is stated that the Admiralty made the Dover anti-submaririo barrage effective by causing fictitious- plans of it to fall into the enemy's hands, thus scaring the submarines away. It is now stated that the hoax was stage-managed on a comprehensive scale. The so-call-ed plans w«re found among the fictitious wreckage of a . British warship cast ashore on the coast of Denmark, where a British agent, in the guise of a proGerman neutral, sold the plans for £7500. The Germans found the barrage scheme so formidable that submarines were thereafter ordered to avoid the Straits of Dover.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1918, Page 6
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124THE HUMOUR OF WAR Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1918, Page 6
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