LIFE-AND-DEATH STRUGGLE

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 August 1917, Page 5

LIFE-AND-DEATH STRUGGLE

Brigadier-General Anderson returned to' Melbourne recently, after acting for some time as Commandant of the Australian Administrative Headquarters in London. "One thing that struck me especially on returning," General Anderson said, in, an interview, 'was the fact that Australia still seems scarcely to realise what the war means. In Britain all the people sems to realise that this is a life-and-death struggle, and that the position is serious. They know that they are fighting for their existence. Thep know, too, Australia and New Zealand are being bitterly fought for on the fields of Flanders. I am afraid the true facts of the war don't reach the Australian public," he remarked. I ascribe that to the censor system, which is wise enough in the Individual case, but is apt to be bad in the aggregate results. Certain items 'are cut out for fear that they may, be useful to the enemy, and the result is that only reassuring news is : published and the bad news is cloaked.