THIS POST WAS FIRST PUBLISHED ON
23RD OCTOBER 2017
AS: PAUL LAWSON, MINIATURE WRITING
AND LOVEDAY...
'Now I have a question for you, About the micro-writing, I want this put right, it was Loveday and not the CIB who found/did it (the miniature writing.)'
This really was and still is a bombshell, you will read how Paul Lawson, without prompting, confirmed the presence of micro writing and which agency was responsible for finding it.
LOVEDAY INTERNMENT & POW CAMP
Situated in the Riverland of South Australia, Loveday Camp was home to internees and POWs. during and after WW2.
Civilians of Japanese, German and Italian origin and who lived in Australia were held there as well as German Civilians who were arrested in Iran and others who were transferred from Tatura, more detail on that in earlier posts on Internment camps and their association with the Somerton Man case.
In what can only be described as a stunning piece of information, when Clive last visited Mr. Paul Lawson just over a week ago and after he had asked him a series of questions, Paul said:
'Now I have a question for you, About the micro-writing, I want this put right, it was Loveday and not the CIB who found/did it (the miniature writing.)'
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| Major Woolrych of SOE, an example of an agents micro written flimsy. |
In that one sentence, the last remaining man who was deeply involved in the case has confirmed that micro writing was found. Given its significance, Clive and I discussed the matter at length and Clive even contacted Paul again and had his statement re-affirmed and also confirmed that it was Loveday camp and not a person of that name.(For the record, there was a well known British intelligence operative in Singapore and Malaysia during WW2 by the name of John Loveday)
We have consistently shown on this blog that the use of microcode hidden in normal writing was described in an SOE manual dated 1943, that there are examples of micro-writing in the British Military Intelligence Museum, we have shown it in the Hay Banknotes, we have shown it in the code page and in Jestyn's verse 70, it has been shown to be present in the letter Q and the letter T and others of the code page as well as in the so-called 'crossed lines' and 'crossed out' line, we have even replicated the exact way in which it was done.
The presence of microcode has been well and truly proven. It is an established fact.
This is a real, evidence-based challenge for you my friend. Are you up to it?
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Someone should tell the young bloke on the other blog that Adelaide Pie carts have been in existence for around 130 years. Work it out young John Sanders. You can find proof here: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/43787452
ReplyDeleteHe needs to learn to dig, Ann's Pantry was still in action in those days, try 15 Moseley Street. There's an address that might light up even a dulled brain.
I don't think he's ever even been to Adelaide, all mouth and no breeches methinks a lot like his 'boss'
Loveday was looked upon as the place where extremists were interned. It operates nominally from 1941 through until February 1946. How come then that Paul Lawson indicated that it was Loveday that found the miniature writing? To understand how that could be has meant reading through pages and pages of information about Loveday and it's history.
ReplyDeleteWhilst it's true that Loveday closed its gates in 1946, there were still strong connections within Adelaide, Keswick Barracks. The Loveday compounds were situated near Barmera in the Riverland, about 230klms from Adelaide. A regular bus ran from and to the camps 3 times a week, it carried personnel and administrative documents. Whilst Internee letters and books were routinely inspected by a small team of camp based censors, anything resembling unusual/suspicious letters and documents from the internees were on that bus to Keswick barracks where a senior censor was based.
I would think it very possible that this senior person would have been alert for other documents passing across his desk after the closure of Loveday. I would also see him being attached to the Military Intelligence unit based at Keswick, he could well be the 'Loveday' to whom Paul was referring when he said it was Loveday that found the miniature writing. More books to read on this, I will post an update with further information in the next week or so.
The Loveday camp housed both POWs and local internees, their nationalities were German, Italian, Japanese, Finns, Poles, British, Norwegians, Swedes, 1 Danish citizen, and 5 Russians. There are other European nationalities named arrive at the total number of internees in the Loveday group of camps to 3234 and who were released into various states of Australia.
ReplyDeleteThere were 3 more internees who were not released, two were confined in Adelaide with mental health issues and one was an inmate at Yatala in the Northern suburbs of Adelaide.
Not in Loveday but in a Queensland camp, there was a solitary American citizen.
Perhaps of note and certainly worthy of recording, are the agricultural activities that took place around Loveday. Woodcutting was a major part of that but crops were also grown.
Amongst those crops were the usual edible fare for use in the camp kitchens, they had 107 acres of Opium poppies the which supplied a large part of the morphine needs of the Australian Military. Opium was an issue in those days and fetched a relatively high price on the black market, however it was not at the extreme levels that we see today and may or may not have been a market in which Loveday personnel or internees played. Make a note for the file.
Other notes worthy of recording is the presence of a Lieutenant L V Keane on staff, he was in the Detail Issue depot. On the matter of 'issue', it was common practice for used clothing including underwear to be issued to internees and POWs. I understand that labels were removed.
There is more information of interest but for now, there's an 'ample sufficiency' to keep those of sound mind but advancing years suitably employed. :)
Apart from the richness of this information one would have to consider how this brief profile of people and activities within the Loveday group would fit those of Tatura and other similar establishments throughout Australia during those years.
A quick 'add to', the 5 Russian internees released into South Australia, were all apparently internees as opposed to POWs as far as I can make out but still working at it. It seems odd that, given the Russians were allies at the time, these men were kept interred. It rang bells in relation to the 4 Russian spies that existed in SA in 1948, 2 of whom were Soviet born and the other 2 were Australian born Russians. There were not many Russian Families in SA between the wars, just two known families but there may have been others. It was quite common practice after WW2 for Russian born people to adopt a different nationality due to their fears of being returned to Stalin's Russia. It would seem that we have a fair chance of discovering the names of at least two of the Russian spies. Will update on that.
ReplyDeleteOne more issue is that there is documentation claiming that all internees and POW's at Loveday were photographed and comprehensive dossiers were compiled.