NAZI BROADCASTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 11, 13 January 1940, Page 10

NAZI BROADCASTS.

DISTORTED REPORTS. BOMBED VILLAGES STORY. «HORACE THE HUMBUG." (From Our Own Correspondent.) DUNE DIN, Friday. A cablegram received this week showed the contrasts between the freedom allowed British people, who may listen to any radio broadcasting station in the world without let or hindrance, and the oppression imposed on Germans, who cannot listen to outside broadcasts. The message makes an item of information in a letter received by a Dunedin resident from a Yorkshire correspondent rather apropos. "One of our amusements these days," says the writer, "is in tuning-in to the German stations, particularly Hamburg, where the amlouneer speaks perfect English with an Oxford accent. (This is probably the person referred to as Lord Haw-llaw in the cabled report.) • "About a fortnight ago we were amazed to learn that during an. air raid carried out by the Germans on England, Leeds, Keigliley, Farnliill and. Skipton had been bombed and much damage done. Skipton, the announcer said, was left in flames, and the terrified inhabitants were lleeing into the dales. Farnliill is only a very small village, about 20 houses, some two miles from Skipton, and scarcely seems worthy of mention, but.it shows how the..enemy knows the country. "Needless to say. thiq is not true and, as I have visited Leeds, Keiglilcy and Skipton since then, I can vouch for their being whole and undisturbed by. any bombs, propaganda or lies. "We have many a laugh, and the announcer goes by the name of 'Horace, the humbug, from Hamburg.'"