FRENCH AIR POLICE
SMUGGLERS’ FEAR PARIS, May 27. The arrest of an Englishman accused of smuggling tobacco hv airplane has brought into the limelight a dingy little office in Paris—the headquarters of the air and wireless police of France. Three dark rooms, furnished with dusty chairs and shaky tables, house some of the keenest detective brains in the country, who control a network of 100 concealed observation posts from which ceaseless watch is kept for aii smugglers > . , Officers crouch over highly sensitive receiving sets picking up messages broadcast by private transmitters. At nightfall each day the air is alive with seemingly innocent sentences. “Your prunes are excellent. Send me more,” says one transmitteri To which another replies, “I like strawberry jam.” When the Paris office picks up such "a message from an unidentified transmitting! post, inquiries are set on foot in the approximate neighborhood lrom which the message came.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18759, 16 July 1935, Page 9
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