TRICKING THE ENEMY
THE CHANNEL U-BOAT BARRAGE. London, December 22. It is stated that the Admiralty mado the Dover anti-submarine barrage effective by causing fictitious plans of it to fall into the enemy's hands thus seair'ing the submarines away. Tt. is now stated that the hoax was stage-managed on a comprehensive scale. The so-called plans wete found amojig Ihe fictitious wreckage of a British Mrship cast ashore on the coast of Denmark, where a British agent, in'the guise of a pro-German neutral, sold the plans for JC7300. The Germans found the barrage scheme so formidable that submarines weiro thereafter ordered to avoid the Straits of Dover.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 76, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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108TRICKING THE ENEMY Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 76, 24 December 1918, Page 5
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