TheCodeBreakers
Censorship defends itself against this ruse by a feel for stilted or
heavy-handed language and by a healthy skepticism concerning subject
matter. The standard story about jargon comes from World War I. A
British censor grew suspicious of the enormous orders for cigars wired
each day—mostly from port towns—by two "Dutch business-
men." One day Portsmouth called for 10,000 Coronas; the next day
Plymouth and Devonport craved large quantities of stogies; then
Newcastle succumbed overnight to the tobacco habit. It seemed as
though all the males in the coastal population of England had suddenly
and simultaneously developed an irresistible addiction to the weed, so
inexhaustible was the demand for cigars. At the suggestion of the censor,
a check was made; the two businessmen proved to be German spies, and
their orders an open code, in which, say 5,000 Coronas for Newcastle
meant five cruisers lying in that port. On July 30, 1915, the two—
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