EDITORIAL

Gun Flash, Issue XIII, 27 March 1943, Page 1

EDITORIAL

In N*2® no matter where one liked to- look,. In the trams, an the train sand on'the buildings', one saw" those ’pastors u Walls have Ears”, ’’Don?t Talk” a-id a thousand others «as warnings to the would-be careloss talker ® But here in Now Caledonia we see no posters and wo are inclined to forget® When -we fillet arrived we wore amar.cd at the numerous broaches of Security, but, as time -gradually passed, so have we slipped in our outlook towards this all important'matter® Because ethers dcud t observe the rules "of ccmiconsenso it is .no reason, far us to follow their example »•» two wrongs can never make a right® gapan has, on thia island, e. potentially strong Fifth Column' and S;q’ Ring mainly in the mixed Javanese and Tonkinese populate ion and it is for our own safety that we guard cur speech when away ffom camp® Unfortunately the man who is careful' in his let tor writing is'net always so careful when he'is 1-5. to'wn'on lbavo. There is the man who, to satisfy his awn vanity, must tv.lk ? must say where ho has Been and what hojs' doing; and the man who'will jeopardise his future safety for the sake of being polite and. answering the apparently innocent question of the girl in the milk bar, or the man behind the counter. /always keep in mind that anything you say may have no importance as an 'isolated scrap of information but when pieced, together with something else may be cf vital importance<■, Remember., too, that the spy or fifth columnist. is not always immaculately, dressed - the monocled indiv--idna.l depicted by such actors an Conrad Veidt, on the contrary ho will be as Inconspicuous as possible « a shrewd, clever man in a highly paid and dangerous, job® Although, by keeping quiet/wo can seldom .make his job more dangerous we can make it. infinitely more difficult®