#2 – 10 Things you (probably) didn’t know about China at the Treaty of Versailles

#2 – Every night the secretaries of the China delegation shredded their trash….

When they’d finished with internal documents the Chinese secretaries working out of the Lutetia Hotel had to tear the waste paper into tiny scraps; it was assumed Japanese spies went through the Lutetia’s rubbish nightly in search of information.  More details in Betrayal in Paris (Amazon UK, Amazon US)