REAL MENACE TO THE PRESS.

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3293, 16 July 1917, Page 2

REAL MENACE TO THE PRESS.

" To-day tho real menace to the press, tlie one danger that imperils its existence, is the shortage or paper," remarks a writer in Mitchell and Co.'s <2iid Annual Newspaper i'ress Directory. The article goes on lo say, that the situation was totally unforeseen by newspaper men at the beginning of the war, and was the only danger for which they did not budget. '' It came suddenly upon us during the year, and the shortage grew tighter as tho year advanced. The reasons for the shortage are complex, but they "all arise out of the war. The success of the German submarine campaign and the destruction of shipping; the Government's need of - more and more transport facilities for purely military and naval purposes, have all tended to reduce our carrying capacity in dealing with what in war time must be called unessentials."