FRANCE LAUGHS
Children's Radio Hoaxes Police PLOT TENSENESS RELIEVED PARIS, Nov. 24. After the tenseness caused by tha revelations about the Cagoulards* secret arms plot, France is lau^hing over the discovery of a clandestine radio station near Toulon. The police made an extremely intense search for the transmitter^ which was considered to be dangerously near the Toulon naval base. They were nonplussed after deeoding messages suchi as these: "Madame A's candy is no good, ' ' and 1 ' The butcher cheats in. his weights." When they unearthed the set they found that it wais operated "by some children in their teens, and that it had been constructed according to instruei tions out of a newspaper.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 60, 3 December 1937, Page 3
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