"THE COLOGNE POST"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 224, 16 June 1919, Page 6

"THE COLOGNE POST"

FIRST BRITISH DAILY IN GERMANY The "Cologne Post," the first English daily newspaper published in Germany, made its debut recently. It is an enterprise which is bound to be highly successful, and the first issue has been in great demand among the troops. The paper is of four pages of five columns, and is edited by experienced journalists selected for the purpose. 'It has a full telegraphic and local news service, and if the former does not suffer from the excessive delay which hampers the news service from Cologne, the troops should be able to read each morning all important happenings in the outside world of the day before.

The "Post" is published at the offices of the "Cologne yilkszeitung," and for tho time being the German plant >s being utilised, but it is hoped soon to have linotypes and English presses installed. ' Special attention' is paid 10 sport, and the first number contains two columns of Army events and a column of Home news of football and racing. There are a number of advertisements of German firms anxious to extend their business relations with the Army of Occupation as well as Great Britain. Thus one advertisement announces that "tho patents for England and America of the ships' engine with vent steerage, according to. the patents of Baurat and Hugo Lent/., are to be sold immediately." Heinrich Schmidt offers to clean uniforms in two days, an office sunoly firminvites inspection of "the new model little adding machine computator for tho English coinage"; and photographers, saddlers, and the leather sellers, perfumers, clothing merchants,, and stationers have advantage of pushing (heir wares tliroufth fliis medium. English firms will have an equal opportunity of using tho "Cologne Post" for reaching the Army of Occupation.