TRAMPS' NEWSPAPER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20472, 25 January 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

TRAMPS' NEWSPAPER.

INSIDE INFORMATION.

CIRCULATION IN ENGLAND.. A determined effort to smash the'secret service system of the tramps, vagabonds, and petty thieves of England is. to he made shortly. Official disquietude recently reached its climax with the increasing circulation of the secret newspaper, believed to be published in Birmingham, which is regularly sold to thousands of these undesirable;;. . ~ Gentlemen ofilfthe road pay one " flash , or- half-penny, for the publication, an invaluable guide to them as to how to., li'> s by their wits. ~ " There is regular intelligence regarding ' fences' and pawnbrokers who are open to receive stolen property,"' the Sunday Chronicle was informed. Even when a copy does fall into the hands of tJ.i® authorities—a very rare occurrence—it is almost impossible to read it, for the text is printed in a ja::gon of hieroglyphs and signs that only tramps can uuc.eistand." Tramps all over the British Isles contribute regular tit-bits of information. Workhouses are listed according to the decree of comfort and leniency prevailing the casual ward;?. Warning is E 1 ™* 1 to towns and districts where the pollCt- . hostile toward vagrants. ... Readers are kept well posted on newest signs, which, if carefully .watcJ ed for and interpreted,' will put the trttfi'F on to a " good thing."