WAR NEWS IN BRIEF
NEWSPRINT SHORTAGE.
LONDON, March 16. The 10 per cent, cut in newsprint operative from to-day, resulted m the non-appearance of the early sportin 0 editions of the evening papers. Ihe morning papers told their readers that one in ten was now without a paper, and the lucky ones are therefore urged to share or lend their copies and to co-operate with news agents m securing the fairest distribution. PROTEST. LONDON, March 16.. The Lord Mayor of Birmingham, m a speech said* “We are _not fighting the war to instal Gauleiters, nor to put the Gestapo in charge ot Britain. The menace to Britain comes not solelv from Germany. It comes from the gentlemen who would impose on Birmingham and other cities a form of government which is irresponsible, anonymous, and not as efficient as the municipality itself. Our system of local democratic government is attacked bv people who are anxious to substitute it for the free institution of vested interests and bureaucratic control We will not surrender our democratic rights to any authority, imI posed on us without our consent.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 March 1942, Page 5
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