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By William Henry Chamberlin

But the cor

SCOUT JOINS UP

THIS is a true clog story.

THIS

Scout is a large Airedale,

a most handsome dog, but al- though he is several years old Ite has not the, Airedale instinct of guarding his home and his people. No, he seems to like mon best, especially soldiers.

Lately, he has distressed bis mistress by leaving her for days on end, then turning up too ex- hausted to do anything -but Bleep.

But now at last she has found out what has been puzzling her-where he goes. He disappeared for almost a week the other day, and she had at last decided that he must be dead But strange reports began to reach bor. "Oh, Mrs X, I thought I paw Scout. What, you've lost him? Well, there ho was marching along an pleased as Punch, keeping time and everything with the soldierst· Ho did look well, the same colouring and everytlung."

Or, "I saw Scout at the Town Hall. He was walking up and down with the sentry!" Or, "I saw Scout at the Town Hall; he came and spoke to me, then a couple of soldiers went in and whistled for him-he was off like a shot."

She had decided to go down her- self to the Town Hall and give the dog's licence to the soldiers. But one night she had a visitor with the errant dog attached to a leash.

"Hiere ho in," gasped her visitor proudly. "I got him at the Town fall. He was sitting beside the sol- dier on duty. I just said that I knew the person to whom he belonged. He said, 'Well, he won't leave us. We've fed him well and to-night he's had a bath!!

Sure enough Seout had an aroma of scented soap.

So now Seoul is recovering from his marching, sleeping on the rug in front of the fire, until the urge to go comes. Then my friend has no doubt where he will be, and she says she is going to tell them they can keep . him.

Jean Thornton

THESE are hard days for the countries, the Soviet Union, Japon, under his own name.

and France; in all three the do- respondent cannot send what he doe. foreign correspondent. Not terioration during the last year has not know, and he cannot know very so much because his work takes been little short of catastrophic. The much about a country all of whose him where people are being life of the foreign newspaperman in citizens are terrorised against com- statistical. bit of information after

contact with him.

another has been suppressed since

played out and now the real signi- I bombed or torpedoed, but rather Russin, with one brief Interlude, has ing into of isolation from Arst- the beginning of the war in China,

A BORDER DISPUTE

THE farcical little war between Indo-China and Thailand has been teance of the affair will crystallise in the peace negotiations which are to lake pince in Tokyo. The case with which the Japanese brought about a cessation of hostilities does not

allay Rather, it confirms apprehension. thie, views of those who have thought from the beginning that the most powerful nation in the Far East. fomented those waters the casily to fish in them, and the act that the French delegates will go to Tokyo, where Hitier's benchmen have plnost unbounded influence in the councils of their Axis partner, opena up disturbing visions of what the unitate terms will yield.

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This state

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The four months before the out-

hand Russian contacts greatly

the picture of Japan's economy until because it has become impossi- always been a struggle with the cen- ble or extremely difficult to

duced the value of the formal abali- which can be drawn up rests even. tion of the censorship which was an- more on guesswork and less un practice his trade over a large and increasing part of

nounced when Vyacheslaff Moloton certainable facts and figures than During the first years of my Moa took over the portfolio of Foreign was the case three or four years ago, world.

1922 until Affairs from Maxim Litvinoff in May, cow assignment, from Side by side with the physical 1928, the censorship was compara- 1939, However, this abolition of black-out that darkens the streets of lively mild, in the light of later de- censorship did not last long. Since break of the war which I spent in the cities and large towns of the velopments, withough it

was more Jan. 1, 1940, cens

censorship has been belligerent countries there is an ever- severe than any

which existed in

with in reintroduced

ted France represented my first experi unprecedented growing black-out of independent other European countries, most of rigour, The last newspaper cor- ence in a foreign country without news reporting which finds expres which at that time were free free respondent remaining in Russia left the restraining hund of a visible or

on foreign

invisible censor, although, in justice sion in various forms: censorship, censorship. Hestrictions

his post a few weeks ago with a inv intimidation, expulsion and, most correspondents became more severe a long dossier of stories which he to Japan, I must say that deletions effective of all, cutting off news at as conditions in the Soviet Union

had not been allowed to send, most from my Tokyo dispatches were few deteriorated, from 1920 until 1933. of them based on material in the and unimportant. This unaccustom- The great, famine of 1032-33 was Soviet press, which is itself com- d. freedoin disappeared as

tho Source.

Independent reporting has uita- gelber ceased In the Soviet Union

Western Europe and

which under Soviet and German military foreign corres- uccupation. The pondent

Increasingly harassed and restricted existence in In unoccupied France he is

lends

It is now known that the Thai- landers occupied a substantial part of Cambodia and some part of Laus hd though the armies have, or will Withdrawn six miles from Leir. fighting rents, the aggressor counuy And, will stil be in possession of part of the territory claimed. It is worthy of note that Bangkok first Inid claim to a few words in the Mekong to the double control of the

censorship and of the pres

Germany. constantly

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sure which

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River and it seems extraordinary that national resurgence could train this small veginning raise such a nighty applies to the Vichy regime to per- and sudden clamour for the greater part of Laos and Cambodia without very defluite inspiration backed up by promises of solid support. Japon Band great, emphasis on. the naticnalistic spirit that was thus mysteriously called into being and bus placed it like a to

te

heads of the Thailanders--an en-

phasis that is incongruous when com- pared with China's great struggle for existence, bul which harmonises almost perfectly with the Hitlerian countries in Europe and the founda- lion of strategle points.

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nction or expression of which could be construed as the Third Retch. Cen- sorship is severe even in countries where administrative independence has been maintained, in Switzer-. land, Spain, and the Balkans.

Curlously enough, Berlin, after the outbreak of the wur, was in one way frcer news centre Lian, was Parls. Germany dispensed with the prell- minary censorship of messages which

"

nlmost completely concealed from the le

suon as

knowledge of the outside world. Cor-pletely under government control, the war began. A huge hotel In the situation had been reached centre of Paris was taken over by where more Information could be the ever-increasing horde of censors, obtained from the Soviet news- There were special censorship de. papers than from the messages-of-pariments-for-military-affairs, for. for finance and econo- correspondents in Moscow,

Joreign mics, for

politics; and what one einsor

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The author is a veteran nowspaper- man who has ro- presented the "Christian Science Monitor" in Russia, Japan and France. In this articlo, he gives you his honest views about censors and censorship.

Frenchght be blacked

The

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One's reaction to Japan's way with out by another. the foreign press depended, ag came to realise, upon whether one French newspapers was a testimony

to the activity of the news control. came to Tokyo from New York or

To deal with the Frinch wartime from Moscow. Colleagues fresh

from

centorship was

it exasperating, but America chafed and fumed over the difficulties of obtaining real news in was also instructive. Over the whole was constantly Tokyo, the evasions and procrastina Institution, which lons of government officials, the extending its

brooded

of smother- secrecy thai shrouded some affairs of

Ing bureaucratism. There was never ⚫atole.

any idea of making a constructive Coming from the Soviet Union, on use of the foreign correspondents, the other hand, I felt that Japan almost all of whom were sympathetic could almost be considered a liberal with France; petty pinpricks and de- country, Censorship was sporadic, lays were habitual and some of the

ans, there

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I remember one message in which

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cles sword of expulsion hung over respondents were forbidden. to visit deal of freedom, even if it was dis- those sent from the front, were al- the head of the newspaperman who the strleken regions of Ukraina and made what the Naz! authorities con- the North Caucasus

n compliment which I had paid to be cabled from fearing for the consequences to them, the French authorities for permitting The French are in a dilemmn; they

sidered an Indiscreet use of his free- famine could not

as one certainly could not meet Rus- Moscow.

use their have

dern. to assuago the Thailanders

One could only use such compara-slans suspected of being out of the Abatians to

with the Soviet order, sympathy whose belliconty now no longer needs

language in newspapera, churches; tively mild expressions as hardship, Ono Inspiration because of the success it

could travel freely not only and public signs, Instead of enforcing has experienced; they have to In Italy, where the roll of expelled malnutrition, etc., which did not in Japan, but in Korea and Man the use of French, was crossed out. concede to the Japanese as much as foreign correspondents is n long one, vey any adequate information malic chukue and in some parts of China A coliesgue had the similarly curious they

The same euphemistic without con

experience of seeing a story which Josing

the unfortunate journalist gets the the situation.

gloss was impored na regards the which were under Japanese military he had written about Strasbourg. Sovereignty:

they would like to

worst of both the French and the appease the Chinese who consider German systems. His messages are process officially called the "quida- occupation. The police, to be sure with references to the fact that the inem faint-hearted neighbours of censored; but censorship is no guar- tion of the kulaks as a class," which were exasperatingly numerous and ilitle worth they would like to anty of immunity from later disci- meant that about 1,000,000 of the inquisitive as soon as one got off the Marciliulse was written there, cut

more well-to-do

ere main travelled routes; but I journey. to ribbons, for no Bane politient or were peasants resume normal trade relations with pline.. the Brition with whom they have a

growing black-out of the driven from their homes, often in ed from one end of the Japanese military reason whatever, by some common if weakening bond.

independent freigh news reporter in the fer ce cold of the Fusion winter Empire to another without experien, sapricious censor. important because it means a steady and, in many instances, deported to ing anything more serious than an It is interesting to speculate that contraction of the news sources on places in the Aretle wilderness, with occasional shortness of temper. while French overseas posuersions are which publle opinion is based. How the inevitable accompanying loss of #lill secure from Hitler and while

especially among many first-hand news stories com children, and elderly mell. the Japanese are still obedient to

out of Paris, Arnsterdam, Brussels, Berlin, French Indo-China will Copenhagen, as the reader probably rentain itself, artificial these days?

Warsaw, and Prague in the

Ire,

women,

purges of the Communist Party,

zones.

It has become still more dimcult to cover France since the -collapse Recently, however, there has been and the division of the country into abundant indication that the foreign occupied and

unoccupied newspaperman in

to her. It was a continental correspondent, is to-day Censorship restrictions were some pretty hard row pan is having a Paris, once the coveted port of the though its status may be. Once it fails ienst oppo ily to know what has

opportunity the rest of the French Empire will happened in Estonia, Latvia, Lithu what relaxed after 1934, when the shock last August to read that James little more productive of news than realise that it is time only and not unio, Eastern Poland, and Bessarabla worst of the Five-Year Plan atroci- Telve had passed away while in hue or Warsaw, It is under the

Cox, veteran Reuter correspondent.

hecl German military occupation: Armistice conditions, that keeps

were over. But since these regions passed under the tles them frem Axis rule and they will

start the custody of the Japanese police, and the few stories which are cent with control of the Soviets?

pass through. Berlin then throw in their lot wholeheartedly For that matter, has anyone dur- which began in 1933 and lasted until Accompanying circumstances have from Parts must p with the Allies, instead of withhold-

ying recent years been able to get 1938, cut the foreign journalist in made the oncial explanation-suicide and can only be sent by correspon- ing

All his formerly seem doubtful to some experienced dents who are accredited to Germany. support at the behest of a Vichy Independent first-hand testimony as Moscow off from

There are almost equally great dis- Government which will have lost its to the working out of the experiment precarious news sources. The most observers, most potent weapon. It is probable

in collective

llective farming in Russia, or dangerous offence for Russians, Com- Cox, a serious, hard-working news- advantages in writing news trom Vichy, where the shadowy govern- Syria and Algeria are saving as to what military and Industrial munists, and non-Communists alike paperman, had been arrested on a

afraid to Indo-China.to-day, Hiller cannot

undertakings have been started in was nszociation with foreigners, The charge of explonage, and the defini- ment la; 1 35,000 Ton Battleship afford to face a united Arabic world Eastern Siberia, or as to how Soviet Russians took the hint and the tion in Japan has now become so which might offend Germany. More

which would back up Turkey and nationality policy is being applied in foreign correspondents were left sweeping and so vague that almost over, conditions of travel are so dimeult that is almost impossible the non-Russian regions of the Soviet isointed, just like the diplomats in any normal subject of journalistic check up on conditions by

many foreigners have Morcow..

Investigation could come under this to Union? How

From the standpoint of the Intelli- head. I know of a Japanese em-trips to town. Lyans, led to visit those parts of been allowed

gent censor, this isolation was more ployee in 'n foreign, consulato In and China whore the Soviet writ

counte for instance the occupation by Japan-

for more than the Chinese, such as effective, than the most extensive use Japan who was sentenced to three area. If present conditions cse forces of a "disputed area” op-

Ouler Mongolia and Sinklang, or of the blue pencil. A story that a years of imprisonment because he substantially unchanged, France, once. posite Malaya-but for French Indo- Chinese Turkestan?

correspondent known does usually made a confectural estimate as to the perhaps the best-known European China It is a dilemma which the ! I know. Ireen experience journalis get out somehow, even if the jour-number of automobiles in certain country to Americans, may, btcome a

ile working conditions in thred nalist is unable to send it directly part of the Japanese Empire, One mysterious, almost a dark land,

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