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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 13, 1940
EMPIRE PRESS
UNION AND THE B.B.C. BULLETINS
London, To-day."
THE INCREASED FREQUENCY of Empire bulletins in the B.B.C. programme was mentioned at the annual meet- ing yesterday of the Empire Press Union, over which ~Major J. J. Astor presided. Addressing the meeting, Major As- tor discussed the handicaps imposed by war conditions upon the overseas press which had, inter alia, to con- tend with transmission and censor- ship delays and the fact that some- times messages for overseas were censored while their contents were passed for publication in the United Kingdom.
TURKEY AND ALLIES
CHICAGO, TO-DAY.
THE "CHICAGO DAILY NEW8" There was also the increased fre- SAYS: "TURKEY, ALTHOUGH OUT.......... quency of the B.B.C. Empire news WARDLY A DICTATORSHIP, 18 A bulletins which obviously were be- COUNTRY WITH LIBERAL IDEAS. coming a difficult point.
"In fact, all the Near East sees a But he claimed that frequent per- vast difference between the imperial- sistent representations by the Union ism of the Democracies and the dyna- had brought about improved facilities mic expansion of Germany, Italy and for the press, particularly in conne-Russia. xion with the censorship.
REUTER COMMENT
Sir Roderick Jones, Chairman of Reuter's, discussing the B.B.C. news broadcasts, said that In the home fleld every endeavour had been made and, he thought, with success, to keep the element of competition
away.
As regards news broadcasts all over the world they all felt that the B.B.C. could discharge its great duty to the nation and Empire and yet not be- have in a manner which was com- petitive with the interests of the overseas press.
Major Astor was re-elected sident. Reuter.
TURKISH PARLEYS
"Even the Arabs, who not long ago and were agitating against Britain France, are now definitely siding with the Allies.
"They see that the British and French the are milder than what is called dynamism of the totalitarian powers. They feel that Britain and France are a protection against totalitarian ex- pansion."-Reuter.
SWISS COMMENT
Lausanne, To-day. The "Gazette de Lausanne" states: "When listening to German wireless tales in Arabic one almost believes that the Arabs desire nothing SO pre-earnestly as the collapse of the De- mocracies as an essential preliminary realisation of their aspirations.
ANKARA, TO-DAY.
THE PRESENCE OF THE TWO ALLIED AIR CHIEFS IN THE MID- DLE EAST AT ANKARA LENDS ADDED IMPORTANCE TO THE RE- CENT MEETING OF THE TURKISH SUPREME WAR COUNCIL.
"The truth is very different. The entire Arab peoples, from the At- lantic to the Caucasus, from the Me- diterranean to the Indian Ocean, are on the side of the Democracies in the present war."-Reuter.
ITALIANS GRATIFIED
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At that meeting, the Council made an exhaustive study of the country's
Rome, To-day. defences and was satisfied with the "Popolo del Roma" makes a front measures already taken and planned.] page feature of the departure of three with a The two Air Chiefs arrived last Sa- Italian colliers from Deal, turday for conferences with the head long message describing the large of the Turkish Air Force.-Reuter.
sympathetic crowd watching from the shore.
JAPANESE PROMOTED
Canton, To-day.
The newspaper says: "There couldn't be a more unexpected or spontaneous manifestation of sympathy than this. Nothing remains for us but loyal ac- understanding knowledgment of the
Col. Yoshida, chief of the Informa- tion Bureau, left for Hainan yester-intelligence of the British Government day on promotion as Chief of Staff. for not making this modest question His successor is Col. Sakuma, from of fact the motive of a dispute Peiping-Reuter.
principle."—Reuter.
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