OVER-SILENT SERVICES

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 175, 19 April 1940, Page 9

OVER-SILENT SERVICES

“The Times” Complaint CONTRAST OF GERMAN PROPAGANDA (By Telegrapn.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received April 18, 9.45 p.m.) LONDON, April 18. “The Times,” in a leading article on the control of news, contrasts the German use of the camera in the Norwegian campaign with 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 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 eye-witness 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 enemyship was before her, and of how the last message ended abruptly. The Admiralty could only conclude that she was sunk by superior forces.]