THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 13, 1939.
News Snack Bar
BABEL OF TONGUES ON THE ETHER
THE WAR OF PROPAGANDA-directed to all na- tions of the world—is on in wordy profusion.
In a babel of tongues, claims and counterclaims, denials and accusations were hurled across the air of the world over shortwave channels to mil- lions of homes.
And from the air, too, a storm of
The Germans dipped into Ameri- propaganda showered from air-planes can history for what they described as dropping pamphlets instead of bombs, a parallel to the war they are fighting From German and Polish short with Poland, England and France,
sometimes "Germany," said the announcers of wave stations, broadcast
in English, sometimes in German, the shortwave stations DJB and DJD, A atrocity stories dinned in cars of lis- "has taken upon herself the historic teners. In Germany a capital penalty role of fighting for the freedom of the invoked against any one world from British domination, in the may be
same spirit that prompted George caught listening to hostile broadcasts.
Against the background of war's Washington to fight against the Bri- destruction, the weavers of propa- ganda produce this pattern, picked up in this country by ever-listening en- gineers of the American networks.
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R.E. Men Injured
From Warsaw, an official broad
Royal Engineers in camp at Halton, German caster charged
fliers with
were injured and dropping poison candies and balloons near Lancaster,
Said the taken to the Lancaster Royal Infirmary containing poison gas.
were when their army lorry overturned be- b1oadcaster, "many children casualties when they grabbed for these tween Halton and Kirkby Lonsdale. balloons."
ATROCITY STORY
Germany-through its radio station DJB scorned this report and coun- story of the tered with an atrocity finding in Polish territory of the body of a German aviator who, it said, had been cruelly disfigured.
Cpl. L. Lightfoot, of Rotherham, is be- lieved to have a fractured skull.
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Memorial To Keir Hardie A bronze bust of Keir Hardie, the
out-
Socialist pioneer, was unveiled side Cumnock Ayrshire, Town Hall and formally accepted on behalf of the Transcriptions of such broadcasts town by Provost Nan Hardie Hughes, have been re-broadcast in the United his daughter. States, always with the cautionary warning that the reports are unedited,
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and that any claims made might re- A Thames Bathing Ban
present
particular the bias of the which in
the broadcast
Jean and Joan Ormonde, talented dancers who are appearing at the dinner
dances in the; Grill Room of the Hong Kong Hotel.
Forty Men Storm
Parliament
Women Kidnapped
In Revenge
Two women have been kidnapped Forty men armed with batons and
and an Indian styling themselves "The Action Com- two men shot dead mittee of the League for Social Jus- tribesman's. house burned down in re- Mushki for the shooting of tice," stormed Brisbane Parliament. venge House and forced their way into the Alam Khan, the right-hand man of the Chamber, where Queensland Labour Fakir of Ipi, the North-West frontier
trouble-maker. Caucus was in session..
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country
Because of complaints about bathers originated.
on the Thames off Teddington Reach, Prime Minister Chamberlain of Bri- Twickenham Council proposes to pro- tain has gone on the air via the short hibit bathing from the foreshore. The waves, to tell the German people-in Thames Conservancy,, the Corporation Saved In Thames
have no and the police have been told of annoy-
but
ance to people in boats. Bathers are urging the Corporation to find other Collision ways to stop rowdyism without pro- hibition of the bathing.
German-that the British fight with the German people against Hitler.
was
An English announcer's talk interpolated with the recorded voice of Herr Hitler (in a speech at the Ber- lin Sports Palace last April) promising
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to observe the rights of Poland, after Killed Waving Goodbye
which the announcer-in German
that comparison drew the obvious Herr Hitler now was leading the Ger- man armies in an invasion of Poland.
"INTERPRETED”
"in- short
Circling over his home, Moulsford Vicarage, Berks, and waving good-bye. an R.A.F. officer who had just ended a holiday with his parents, crashed into
from the
Two women were saved cabin of the motor-yacht Alert and two men were picked up from Thames after a collision with the tug Aboma In St. Clement's Reach, Grave- send.
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the roof of a public house on the op- "Family" Of 76
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150,000 Treated
In A Year
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patients In its ten-years' history treated by the National Eye Service the have increased from 6,000 a year to more than 150,000, says the annual report of the Ophthalmic Treatment Board, which administers the service.
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posite bank of the Thames and was
The birth of a boy to Mrs. Weather- Military events, likewise, are
killed. He was Pilot Officer: Peter German Thus, terpreted." wave announcers told of a raid by Bri- Phillips, 22, son of the Rev. H. Lay- all, of Grantham, brings the "family" tish bombers, which "did no damage." rence Philips, vicar. of Moulsford, of Mrs. Henry Cantrill, 76, of Portland- 23. great-grandchild- The Eritisis announced they had raid- Pilot Officex J. F. Pettigrew, of North place, Grantham, to 76-11 children, 42 ed Wilhelmshaven, German seaport, Weald, his passenger, was taken to grandchidren, and damaged two Germian warships. hospital with severe head injuries. The German claimed five British planes had been shot down; the Bri....... tish said only that they had suffered casualties.
has been via
Even the United States made the object of discussion these chats to the people. In this manner, the German people were told by DJB, that: "Suspicion exists as to reliability of American newspaper stories. America's President Roosevelt asked reporters to stick to facts. Many their press Americans had thought reliable, but this is not the case. In the last few days they have been more unreliable than before.”
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Scornfully, the DJB maouncer clared, "the powerful British, pro- ipaganda machine is running rapidly to bring the United States into the conflict as soon as possible."
Before Britain ever dropped a homb in Germany, it sent a fleet of planes with chillions of pamphlets denouncing Hitler, which were dropped on Ger- puan dities-
rèn.
Troops from Cambridge, Luton, Bedford and Norwich comprle-
Ing the 56th, (Erst Anglia) Divigional Engineers (T. A.) in camp at Old Mark, Canterbury—(Copyright By Air Mail).
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In Rail Works
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Grandfather, father and son - at the Inverurie locomotive works of the L. N. E. R. The grandfather has named Gordon Forbes-are employed
thirty-four years' service.
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Ship On Show
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Wrecked British merchant ships are the chief attraction In a war museum just opened in San Sebastian. It con- of tains small-scale reproductions every foreign merchant vessel sunk or damaged In Spanish waters dur- ing the civil war.
Britain with 100 ships damaged and twenty-seven sunk, heads the list.
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Skeleton Find
Torture Theory
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The theory that a man was tortureți and then buried in the sand was ad vanced by the Coroner, Mr. W. G. Dur rough, at the Westonbuper-Mare in quest on a skeleton which was found burried at Sand Bay. An open vert dict was returned.