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Evening Star, Issue 24284, 27 August 1942, Page 3

LEAKAGE OF INFORMATION TO THE ENEMY The most patriotic citizen can unwittingly provide a scrap of information overhead in conversation, or can include an apparently innocent remark in a letter which, when collected with hundreds of other scraps provide information of real value to the enemy. It must he remembered that the enemy intelligence organisation is world-wide and that enemy agents are by no means obvious as such. They are ordinary looking individuals, and tliev are on the job night and day, in trains, trains, hotels, crowded shops, and in the street, ami they have sharp ears. Therefore, don't talk about any matter of the slightest significance in regard to the Army. Navy, Air Force, or shipping, and when writing letters do not leave it. to the censor. Remember that he has thousands of other letters besides yours to deal with, and that overseas mail is regarded as a rich prize by the enemy. He on your guard all the time against careless talk and careless writing. Avoid it like the plague and discourage it at every opportunity. Make that part of your war effort. Inserted to assist the war effort by the proprietors of 'Baxters Lung Preserver.—[Advt.] |