"THE BRITISH GAZETTE"

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 107, 6 May 1926, Page 9

"THE BRITISH GAZETTE"

GUIDE TO PUBLIC OPINION

IN ABSENCE OF NEWSPAPERS.

■ (United Press Association.—Copyright.) (Renter's Telegram.) LONDON, sth May. The Government paper, "The British Gazette," consists of four sheets, the inside pages blank. The first issue of 700,000 explains that its object is to reply to the strike makers' plan to paralyse public opinion. It adds: "Nearly all the newspapers have been silenced by violent concerted notion, and this great nation is momentarily reduced to the level of African natives, dependent only on rumours carried from place to placo. lv a few Haya, if this were allowed to continue, tlio rumours would poison the air, raise

panics and disordors, and carry us to depths which no sane man of any party |or class would care even to contem- ' plate." It says the "Gazette's" circulation will be raised by means of the unlimited resources of the State until it provides a sure and sufficient means of information, and a guide for action to all British civilians. It urges the nation to "Be strong and quit yourselves like men." The "Gazette" claims that the first day of the strike was not so complete as the promoters hoped for. More trains are running than on tho first day of the 1919 railway strike. It says reports from all parts of the country indieato that recruiting arrangements are satisfactory. The office where the "Gazette" is published and the vans carrying the paper are strongly guarded. The "Gazette" is delivered to the more distant districts by aeroplane.