"We are starving,” wrote a German child to a pen-friend at Wanganui recently. The phrase was, naturally, not written in the actual letter itself. The strict Nazi censorship would have ensured that the letter did not reach New Zealand if that phrase had been written in the ordinary fashion. Some time ago the Wanganui resident received a letter from Germany asking if the New Zealander was interested in saving stamps. A reply was sent in the negative, but the next letter from Germany had a stamp affixed to one of the pages. Curiosity aroused, the Wanganui resident steamed off the stamp, when the words. "We are starving. ’ were disclosed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1939, Page 8
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