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Camp News (Northern Command), Volume 1, Issue 15, 9 August 1940, Page 2

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German shopkeepers are now required to be detectives as well. " Where metal articles which are not rationed are concerned they must satisfy themselves that the articles asked for are “necessities” so far as the" buyer is concerned. The newspaper “Essener National Zeitung” gives the following rules for the sales of stoves and bicycles:— If the stove is needed for a new house. If the stove is merely to replace another. In connection with bicycles it has to be decided if they are needed for work or just for pleasure. What happens to the shop-keeper who makes a wrong decision is not stated. ❖ ❖ * * * One of “Der Angriff’s” specialities is the inventing of fantastic stories about England. This is the latest: — Scotland Yard has spread the fantastic rumour that in trains and Tubes all over England, German spies are working by reading from the lips of fellow-passengers. Those lip-readers were supposed to be teachers of the deaf and dumb before the war. They did their work very well, but aroused suspicion through their concentrated staring. Seventeen men and four women were arrested and brought to Scotland Yard, where they proved to be genuine British subjects. Unfortunately, “Der Angriff” does not tell what happened to the unlucky twenty-one. ❖•❖ * * * Owners of uncultivated ground in Germany must now notify the nearest police of the fact. x That land will then be given to people who are willing to cultivate it, and they will not have to pay any rent. * * ; * * * . . ❖ Some landowners in Germany have been unpatriotic enough not to remove their iron fences and present the metal to the nation. _ ' They are now warned in all newspapers that they must at least cut the fence to half its height and give the upper part to the nation. '