GERMAN CENSORS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1941, Page 7

GERMAN CENSORS

OUTWITTED BY THE FRENCH. RESISTANCE IN SUBTLE FORMS. An examination of the French newspapers, especially the periodicals, shows how the quick-witted French outwit the German censors. Everyone in France listens to the 8.8. C. broadcasts in French for the news. A publication which has just reached London from France carries in one of its issues a very mild little article about a man who bought a small island off the coast of Africa. With the article, two or three paragraphs in length, is published an unnecessarily large map showing the whole of the African war area. By what of course cannot but be a coincidence, besides the insignificant little island that is a mere dot, every town mentioned in the communiques is shown —a boon to the French who listen-in and enjoy the news of the Italians being treated like skittles in Abyssinia and elsewhere. A well-known French writer joins in the game. Speaking of a German classic, he says in an article that he has been reading it again but is disappointed at the long time the hero takes to die, whereas English works are full of life and vigour. Is it also only a strange coincidence that the inimitable Maurice Chevalier who has been singing for charity, has written two songs whose titles are “Espoir” (Hope) and “L’Arc en Ciel” (the Rainbow)? Yet another publication prints an article about the important role petrol will play in this war. Perusal of the article leaves no doubt, in the mind of the reader as to who has - got, and is going to keep, the petrol.