BRITAIN DISCREDITED

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 253, 10 June 1937, Page 5

BRITAIN DISCREDITED

DISSEMINATION OF LIES Menace Of Foreign Propaganda Press Association—Copyright. London, June 9. “Subsidised foreign news services, aiming directly and indirectly at injuring British interests, have become a serious menace,” declares the Round Table. The paper adds : “Impartial news ; lias almost disappeared from the Far | East.. Italian, German and even I French Government-supported news ’ agencies supply Chinese and Japan- j ese Press, services at a fraction of the cost of British agencies.”

The Round Table quotes numerous items published in newspapers in the Far East emanating from the Continent, which, emphasise British timidity and weakness with the object of showing that Britain is becoming a second rate power.

The Round Table also draws attention to Italian propagandists in the Levant who are assiduously spreading the doctrine that Britain is everywhere on the run and that the Empire will shortly break up. Attention is drawn to Italian, Ger- ’ man, FJrench and Russian wireless’ | services in Egypt, Afghanistan and ’ elsewhere which are all working to ’ Britain’s disadvantage and seeking to ’ undermine her influence. These ser. I vices also supply tendentious news I

to all European newspapers at nominal rates, thanks Ho Government subsidies. “As a result everywhere Britain is discredited,”. the paper says, “interested Powers are winning greater victories ’through the dissemination of falsehoods than is possible by force of arms.”