BRITISH CENSORSHIP

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 18, 22 January 1940, Page 7

BRITISH CENSORSHIP

REORGANISATION URGED BY

JOURNALISTS

LONDON, January 20. A conference of the National, Union of Journalists unanimously passed a resolution deploring the Government censorship distribution, the suppression of important news not informative to the enemy, and attempts to influence policy by deletions.

The conference is urging censorship only when news is strategically valuable to the enemy, and is requesting the reorganisation of the Press and Censorship Bureau "to become a weapon of democracy instead of being the tool of the Service Departments."

BUDAPEST.—Hungary is demanding the return of railway trucks from Germany, believing the Nazis are using them inland after their arrival with Hungarian goods.

MOVES IN GALICIA

GERMANS & RUSSIANS

THREAT TO BALKANS?

ITALY QUESTIONS

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(By Telegraph—Press Association—Cqpyricnt.) LONDON, January 2L Four German divisions : are/reported on the Rumanian-Galiciah frontier.' German troops entered Russia en route to Odessa and the Turkish frontier. The Belgrade correspondent of the "Sunday Times" says there' are Russian in addition to German troop movements in Galicia. The Germans have also, Germanised the .Slovak army, purging it of unreliable elements.? The German forces in north-west Slovakia and south Pbljmcl equal General Weygand's Allied forces in the Near East. c .

The Belgrade correspondent of "The; Tinies" says n that ; the" entry, of . j'.the ; Germans to Galicia has resulted in a German-Russian trade agreement c" ing negotiated under which German^ will have economic concessions in Polish Galicia to develop oil product tioh. Germany has dispatched engineer^ and skilled workmen under a military escort. \]-';,-:^\-:. ■■'-■ ;'-"•■■ ■'. '. ■'■'■■-:■' y,::.

Yugoslavia today called up five classes of reservists. War materials, mostly from Italy, are constantly arriving. Evacuation .plans are complete. According to the opinion of the General Staff, trouble is possible in the spring. . : .://; -. ■■ . ':'. ~.':.;.. 0 '■!■'_-': .-:'.

The "Sunday Times" asserts -that. Italy has' asked Germany her attitude in the event of Russian expansdon in the Balkans, emphasising tliat Italy would, not tolerate Russian penetration and therefore reserves full liberty of action. ''. •■ : ■■ . ':;" '•■.■■■'':";'. \'.'■'■■

The Soyiet announced tha^t intensive civilian air raid drills will /be held throughout Russia from: iferqh 1 to May I,- involving, a million persons in schools, factories, and offices. , ;j ;

OIL FOR X^^MANY

DEMANDS ON RUMANIA

BUCHAREST, January 20.

Herr Hitter is drawing full attention to -the question of oil. supplies for war. Urgent messages: are being' exchanged between" the Government; and the German delegate, Herr Clodius.

King Carol has again been told that Rumania cannot be regarded; as genuinely neutral unless the German demands for petrol are satisfied.V; : .'. Germany is regularly sending oil trains with camouflaged tanks toj: Rumania^ fourteen passing through ,to Germany nightly, congesting the single railway track. V ;