GERMAN LIES NAILED

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1940, Page 8

GERMAN LIES NAILED

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.

British Official Wireless.

conditions in britain

Rugby, Sept. 16. An instructive commentary on the air fighting of the week-end is found inf German press and wireless reports which, as the Daily Telegraph says, have burst iuto frantic tales of the destruction of London and the panic of Londoners. "It is clear," adds the Telegraph, "that desperate eflorts of propaganda are necessary to keep up -the spirit of the German people. This, as usual, has thrown all restraint to the winds and the old familiar and completely unfounded tales of the fiight of the Court and ' the Government and the collapse of the civilian morale have been given currency. "One of these reports says that the roads out of London are blocked with panic-stricken refugees. There is no particle of truth in this report. London life goes on and the difBculties caused by the bombings are being surmounted with surprisingly little apparent interference. Even while the air raid warnings are in force there is little noticeable diminution in the rush of London street traffic. The Telegraph adds: "Facts, not lies, will decide the war, and we have a right to be proud of the success of London's _4e/etice. and the^grlm and gay temper of 'Keir people."