FREE FRENCH CROSSES
THOUSANDS WORN IN ENGLAND (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 9, Thousands throughout Britain associated with the Free French movement are wearing in their lapels small Croix de Lorraine in red, white and blue, worded “France Libre.” Behind each cross is stamped a number corresponding to a number on a similar cross in the possession of a French man or woman in occupied France. They are unable to wear the crosses openly but keep them for the day when they can rejoin the British against Hitler, The crosses were made in England, but it is a Free French secret how each number reaches its opposite. Crosswearers keep contact by wireless and frequent talks are broadcast in dialect to each department of France.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24735, 11 October 1941, Page 9
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