FEW BRITISH WAR PICTURES ARRIVE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 218, 15 September 1939, Page 8

FEW BRITISH WAR PICTURES ARRIVE.

CONCERN IN US.

Photographs Wirelessed

From Berlin.

SERIOUSNESS STRESSED

United Press Association. —Copyright. (Received 10 a.m.) NEW YORK. September 14. British circles in America are seriously disturbed by the failure of British war pictures to reach the United States, ostensibly on account of the censors. A delegation of leading Press and picture agency chiefs visited the Marquis of Lothian, British Ambassador to the United States, and stressed the .fact that eight German war photographs had been sent direct from Berlin to New York by wireless, which did not do Germany any harm."' against one British picture. ''Britain is certainly losing out in the war of propaganda."'

The situation as far as Franco was wiiii'nierl was even more acute. .Not a single picture agency in America lias i eccived tine war photogra jih ftom l 1 ranee since the conflict began.

The Associated Press, learns that Lord Lothian, who also received representations from an informed Anglo-American quarter, has taken up the matter with Whitehall.