NEGLECT OF PUBLICITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1940, Page 5

NEGLECT OF PUBLICITY

COMPLAINT BY LONDON “TIMES” GREATER USE OF PICTURES ADVOCATED.

ENTERPRISE OF GERMAN PROPAGANDISTS. LONDON, April 18. “Tim Times;,” in a leading article on llie control of news, contrasts the German use of the camera in the Norwegian campaign witli the British disregard of it. It points out that no photographs have been forthcoming from the British side, though the daring use of the camera may at any moment be most valuable for the Allied cause. The Amsterdam correspondent of “The Times” says that the Dutch Press publishes photographs of the Glowworm and pays a tribute to the excellence of the German propaganda which the “Telegraaf” says is much better than that of the Allies. It is asked if Germany produces seven I photographs of a British destroyer on fire why England cannot produce one picture of seven German destroyers sunk. Regret is expressed that in’contrast to the German propaganda about their troop arrivals, there is no eyewitness report of the landing of the British forces in Norway. The First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Churchill, on April 11 told the House of Commons of the presumed loss of H.M.S. Glowworm, a destroyer which was detained' through waiting to pick up a man overboard. She engaged three enemy destroyers and later reported that an unknown enemy ship was before her. The last message ended abruptly. The Admiralty could only conclude that she was sunk by superior forces.