ENEMY BROADCASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 45, 23 February 1942, Page 6

ENEMY BROADCASTS

Warning to Listeners

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, This Day. A warning to the public not to listen-in to enemy broadcasts was given by the Mayor and Chief Warden (Mr. J. A. C. Allum) today. He said that over the weekend he had been disturbed by communications seeking confirmation of alarming rumours and statements, apparently emanating originally from foreign broadcasting stations. "Axis stations put out propaganda designed to cause distress to our people," he said.. "The idea is to shake their morale and confuse the operations of the civil defence organisations. It is all part and parcel of the enemy's well-known technique which has been applied to other countries, and I urge citizens not to tune into enemy countries."

Mr. Allum added that propaganda was passed from mouth to mouth. People should not forget that Berlin, Rome, and Tokio wished them to listen-in to them.

In conclusion, Mr. Allum said it would help the war effort if the public would listen to the requests of the authorities and pass them on, so that they could be carried out, and thus help to defeat the enemy.

ese navy and merchantmen will be easier in the narrow channels of the Dutch East Indies than in the large expanses of the Pacific, and therefore Java is tremendously important as a springboard for offensives.

Escapees from Sarawak, after trekking across Borneo, report that the Japanese are using Mattchukuan levies in Sarawak for unimportant military duties, confirming the belief that the occupation of Malaya is extremely thin. •*'