BATTLING WITH WORDS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20040, 12 September 1939, Page 9

BATTLING WITH WORDS

RADIO PROPAGANDA

WIRELESS OFFENSIVE

This is a war on, as well as in, the air. Every day and night since the opening .of hostilities in Europe, the broadcast and short-wave radio stations of Europe have been conducting the propaganda fight—battling with words.

Those of us in New Zealand who have efficient short-wave receiving sets are able to make contact with the fringe of this battle; and even the fringe is impressive and confusing enough, states the Dominion. What :i must be in those parts of the Northern Hemisphere where broadcast as well as short-wave from Britain, France, Germany, Poland —not to mention the United States and the dozen and one smaller countries which are ndeavouring to oiler the world of listeners their version of events—•Benges imagination. .w.r people : e listening to ‘he Herman sessions in English for the

arcst of th.se are heard late at

ighti, Those who do listen to them have been impressed, first, by the extravagance of the German claims and .accusations against the Allies, and, secondly, by the avoidance of all reference to the Western Front and to Allied air force activities. The German radio offensive is conducted from Zecsen where, in 1936, the Nazis built an enormously powerful short-wave station. The world was divided into six zones, each being in charge of an important member of the party.