WAR MESSAGE IN COIN
Cunning ways in which vital information was carried through enemy lines during the war were revealed at the exhibition of war intelligence at the Imperial War Museum, South Kensington, last month. Hollow coins, harmless in appearance, which were sent across the frontiers in exchange for food were used to carry vital messages about enemy movements. Sometimes the film from plates' of photographs was sent to show the position of enemy forces. An interesting exhibit (reports the "Daily Mail") was a small piece of linen '■ covered with . writing, which, carried in a Belgian girl's skirt, warned British headquarters of the great German offensive of 1918. A pea map of La Bassee, which was also on view, was drawn by two French school girls at the risk of their lives.
Wood:r Great. Peppermint Cure for Couchf and CoHp never fails.—Adyl
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 77, 1 April 1931, Page 18
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