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LACXDRY HELPS DETECTIVES. Twenty thousand people in Britain are walking about with shirts and 1 rocks invisibly marked with a. secret code by which the police can instantly identify them in the event of necessity (states ihe.“Snnday Chronicle.” London). Scotland Yard hopes that, within the next few months every article of clothing in England will be thus marked. The idea, now being tried out. by a chain of laundries in north-west London, -will he a great step forward in solving murders and cases of lost memory. A machine presses in the code mark', which is visible 1 only under ultraviolet ravs.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1939, Page 2
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