FORGERS FOILED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 43, 29 January 1943, Page 3

FORGERS FOILED

LONDON PRINTERS' INVENTION A NEW "FUGITIVE" INK A new "fugitive" ink for cheques and! other documents which spreads when tampered with by forgery has been developed by London printers, Successful experiments had been made when Avar broke out, but in spite of. being very busy on war work they have found time to develop their discovery. Printers of postage stamps* foi

Britain and the colonies, the latest war job to come their way is the series issued for the Free French colonies. Only a few weeks after General d<e Gaulley troops landed on the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, near Newfoundland, these printers w r e.re at work on the col- 1 ony*s new stamp, the most recent of the .series. Designed by' Edmund Dulac, famous illustrator of French and English books, who was also responsible for Britain's Coronation stamp, there are separate isiines in 14 different colours, for each colony. All of them embody the traditional "R.F." and the Cross of Lorraine, emblem of Free France, as well as

the Avords "France Libre/' but there the similarity ends. The. stamp bears a shield similar to those of thick leather borne by the native bushmen of the mandate: French Equatorial Africa's stamps depict the Phoenix, symbol of France's re-birth; while that, of the French Eestablishments in India features the lotus flower. For Oceania, the Tahitian tipairua, or double canoe, is an emblem of local significance, as is New Cale-i donia's unique Kagu bird. The air mail-stamp showq an aeroplane. of such recent type that it was not under production when the stamp Avas. designed.