FAKED FOOD CARDS
DROPPED BY BRITISH PLANES FLIGHTS OVER NAZI GERMANY Information regarding the flights of the Royal Air Force over parts of Germany for the purpose of distributing propaganda has bccome so frequent as almost to eeasp to be news. However, a new angle on the (lights has been received by a Hawera resident in a letter from his son, who is a member 01 the Royal Air Force. This letter told of one raid over western Germany when food ration cards were distributed to the pecfple, and how these cards were used by the recipients to some good purpose. Obviously, the ration cards were forgeries, although not in r.n indictable sense, as Britain is at war. and the distribution comes under the heading of "legal tactics." "I think the funniest thing out.'" stated the letter, "was the dropping by Ihe Royal Air Force over Germany of forged ration cards for the German people. I believe they cleaned out a lot of the local storehouses." The cards were nn exact replied of tlio.se used in Germany by the authorities, and it is not difficult to understand how they should be used by the recipients.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 107, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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195FAKED FOOD CARDS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 107, 8 January 1940, Page 6
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