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By strange underground channels there arrived in London in December a series of parcels containing copies of 134 different newspapers. Every one is anti-Nazi and is. printed, published, and distributed in Poland. The" number was a shock even to the Polish officials in Britain, for the Germans have made even the possession of such newspapers punishable by death. Most of the newspaper's appear to be dailies. They are well printed, and five of them have first-class pictures. Almost every one carries a cartoonmostly lampooning the Gestapo for their failure to find the printing
presses.
On the front of every paper is the 8.8.C. bulletin in Polish for the previous night. The dailies for September 30 carry speeches by Churchill, Sikorski, and Molotov. It is obvious from the dates that as fast as the Germans close down one paper another takes its place under the same name, but from a different printing.press.; ;;: .' "v, :
Day by day every paper carries the warning, "Don't smoke, don't drink, don't go to cinemas." Reason—the Germans draw taxes from all these.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 8
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