A young man in Bow, London, painted a red cross on a poster and displayed it outside the Lycett Mission. A policeman pulled the poster down. “It is a contravention of the Geneva Convention,” declared the clever policeman. “A red cross may be used by no one but the International Red Cross. I will take the poster to Arbour Square Police Station.” He did so. The police sent the poster to Scotland Yard. Scotland Yard sent it to the War Office. The War Office kept it a few days and then returned it to the Lycett Mission, saying that as one arm of the cross was longer than the other three it might be displayed. Now the young man of Bow is waiting to have a word with the clever policeman.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 3
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131Untitled Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1942, Page 3
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