SECRET DOCUMENTS
SOLD AS WASTE PAPER. USED TO WRAP UP TEA. (Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) London, April 15. The Roumanian police have discovered that delicate State secrets are given away with a pound of tea. The Telegraph’s Budapest correspondent reports that the police, when searching the rooms of a political suspect, found a highly confidential document, part of the evidence submitted at the recent Munitions Enquiry Committee. When the suspect was asked how he was able to steal or buy the information, he led the police to a local grocer’s shop where two thousand sheets of secret documents were being used to wrap up parcels. It transpired that enterprising committeemen decided to earn an honest penny by selling the voluminous reports to wastepaper dealers.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 5
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125SECRET DOCUMENTS King Country Chronicle, Volume XXX, Issue 4834, 16 April 1936, Page 5
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