TROOP MOVEMENTS
To The Editor
Sir, —Quite rightly we are being continually warned not to do ox - say anything likely to be useful to the enemy. Could anything be more useful to him than detailed information about the movements of our troops? With enemy agents in the Dominion, and a raider at large, near our coasts, the authorities have published the dates, numbers and routes relating to our men going into camp. If it would be inconvenient for the enemy to torpedo or mine a troopship on the east coast of the South Island, then he is told about others crossing Cook Strait, and the date is given. Is it any wonder the Germans call us fools? —Yours, etc.,
J. C. FUSSELL. Queenstown Vicarage, September 24, 1940.
[This letter was referred to the Directox - of Publicity (Mr J. T. Paul) who stated: “Whenevex - there has been reason to suspect immediate danger to shipping the authorities have suspended coastal traffic. No doubt similar precautions will always be taken whenever they are deemed necessai’y.”]
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Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 9
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172TROOP MOVEMENTS Southland Times, Issue 24244, 30 September 1940, Page 9
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