"ملف 28/1 I الدفاع في مواجهة قوات المظلات، وإعاقة المطارات وأماكن الهبوط، إلخ" [و‎‎١‎٩] (٤٠/٣٧)

did not appear again* From another brai;cu of the
Inspector General's office, however, he tx removed a map
of N.W*i3y* Police stations*
3* By the efforts of some new adherents, the M Fifth
Column** has come into possession of a mass of secret
information*
On tiie 23rd September 1941, the sealed mail bag,
containing registered and ordinary oail for Headquarters
Northern OMBWid was brought into a Military Sub-Post
Office by a lost Office peon, who had collected it from
the City Post Office.
.men the bag of mail was opened the Post Master
was surprised to find that it only contained old newspapers*
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Telephonic conversations Detween trie two k ost
Masters were then held*
For three weeks the M fifth dolumn*' had watched the
mail bags carried between the two Pouu Offices* On this
particular occasion, the peon had stopped for a rnoment
outside a drapery shop where an auction was being held*
The bag was heavy and he put it on the .. round for a moment,
fne opportunityTseiaed. another bag was put down beside
uiie peon and the real bag removed* after a moment updkx or
two the peon picked up his Dag anu proceeded unsus^ ecting on
his way.
In order to avoid complications the rt Fifth Column**
did not open the Dag. If they had done so they would have
obtained possession of the following postal matter,
addressed to Headquarters Northern Command *-
41 Begistered parcels*
66 Registered letters.
2 Insured letters.
On tii# 30th 3eptember, a **Fifth Columnist*',
travelling under the asaamed name of G.N* Morrow, arrived
in the capital of a certain Province with the ob^ ecW of
gaining access to secret plane in the secretariat. The
“Fifth Column" had unfortunately forgotten the Dusehra
holidays so "Mr. Morrow", on his arrival at the Secretariat
was unaole to meet any officials. However, during his
briei stay there, he was left alone in an office from
which he could have abstracted the uail lying on the table
ana any number of files.
Fifth Columnists raided tne office of the
Secretariat in the same Province at 0900 hours on October
9th, 1941* The oXiices were all open ana quite empty* The
chowkidar was sent to produce the keys and, in the meantime*
microphones were removed from all telephones. On the
chowkidar's return, a pretence was made of receiving a phone
call to ills effect that tne offices were to be locked up
and that, on no account, were they to be opened till 1000
hours. The microphones were handed to a Police Sezveant
for return.