TRUTH FROM AIR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20036, 7 September 1939, Page 10

TRUTH FROM AIR

GERMAN PEOPLE COUNTERING NAZI LIES BRITISH PROPAGANDA WAR INTOLERABLE TYRANN Y STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY (Eire. TVI. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 9 a.m. RUGBY, Sept. 5. The remarkable flights over German territory of Royal Air Force aircraft, carrying millions of leaflets, have captured imagination and have given rise to approving editorial comment in several newspapers. An example is the Daily Express, which says: “At the time the Athenia was sinking after an attack by a German U-boat, machines of the Royal Air Force carried out our greatest propaganda raid in history. Six million leaflets were dropped over northern and western Germany, in a gigantic endeavour to bring the truth to the German people, to break through the barricade of lies and suppressions, which are mightier than the Siegfried line and which stand between the ordinary German and the democracies of the west.” The News-Chronicle says :“So far as Britain is concerned, this war was opened in the right way. The fact is that this war .differs from all previous wars. It is a struggle by all men and women, British and German, who believe in liberty and peace agains't the intolerable tyranny of the Nazi Government. It is a war for principles which know no frontiers.”