MISLEADING REPORTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 111, 6 November 1937, Page 11

MISLEADING REPORTS

GERMAN AFFAIRS "

CONCENTRATION CAMPS

(By Telegraph.)

(Special to the "Evening Post.")

DUNEDIN, This Day.

Allegations that there was a conspiracy of misrepresentation in many countries with regard to news concerning Germany, and' remarks that everything which could be twisted to the discredit or disadvantage of that country was seized upon while similar things occurring in France and other countries were allowed to pass unnoticed, w«re made by Dr. W. Bcnham at a League.of Nations function.

Dr. Bcnham spoke on labour and concentration camps, of which so much was heard. The impression was given that these were penal organisations of some kind which were not to the credit of the country. Concentration camps where Jews and other people who were officially regarded as undesirables were interned were no different from internment camps that existed in Britain and even in New Zealand during the war. As for labour camps, people should remember they were to be found even today all over New Zealand in connection with the construction of roads and railways. Of course, they were called Public Works camps here, but actually they were just the same as the camps in Germany. Berlin was not Germany any mor? than London was England, and he considered too much notice should not be taken of headlines of which Berlin was so often the subject. Germany, was something very much bigger and greater and better than too many newspaper articles were inclined to make it out to be.