WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1940, Page 8

WAR NEWS IN BRIEF

o — PRESS AND CENSORSHIP. [BY CABLE. —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, November 30. Mr. J. A. Spender, in a speech at the Institute of Journalists’ annual meeting, warned the Government that there was danger in their excessive cautious newspaper censorship. He added: “If such caution allows the enemy to obtain a long start with false news, the censors may cause a serious military disadvantage. We may be forced to ask the censors to realise that the Press is not a tiresome survival of peace, which should be effaced in wartime, but is a potential military weapon.”

PEACE TERMS .LONDON, November 30. The Independent Labour Party in the House of Commons, which consists of Mr. Maxton and two followers, has tabled an amendment to the Address-in-Reply to the King’s speech. The amendment, which will be debated by the House, is to the effect that the House regrets the failure of the Government to state the terms on which peace could be made, or to propose a conference to end the war on the basis of the “restoration of the freedom of each country,” and the pledge of all warring Governments to use all of their resources for the establishment of a new social order.

; WOOL FROM HOPS. RUGBY, November 30. The Hilversum radio stated that Germany has a new industry. She is making ersatz wool from hop-stalks. This wool is three times as strong as cotton. There are by-products which are useable for the making of paper and imitation leather.