[MEINERTZHAGEN (Major R.)]
Intelligence Supplement No. 3 [Plus revisions: No. 5, No. 7, No. 10] - Notes on the Officers serving with the Enemy Forces in German East Africa.
Contained within a wrapper titles “Intelligence Section, General Head-Quarters, East Africa Force” with the ownership inscription of Lieut. G.S. Johnson and a manuscript listing of the Intelligence Supplements from I - VII, which reveals that the missing issues from the series (1, 2, 4 & 6) were all road reports. Johnson’s ownership inscription to the upper panel of the first two reports.
The fruits of Meinertzhagen’s renowned, or perhaps infamous, D[irty] P[aper] M[ethod]: “I… found that the contents of German officers’ latrines were a constant source of filthy though accurate information as odd pieces of paper containing messages, notes on enciphering and decoding, and private letters were often used where lavatory paper did not exist… By June 1915 I had collected, through captured documents and DPM, the signatures and occupations of almost every German employed in German East. These were reproduced and distributed to every officer, so that when a paper with a signature came into their hands they would know who it was and what his job was.” [Army Diary p.127, illustrations facing pp.128-9.]
Extremely uncommon. No copies located through OCLC as of June 2023.
