GENERAL CABLES

Grey River Argus, 8 September 1945, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(Rec. 11.20) WASHINGTON, Sept. 7 Construction is nearly completed of a forty-six mile pipeline across Panama Isthmus. The project cost twenty million dollars. It will guarantee fuel for the Pacific Fleet in case the canal is a victim of enemy action. A New York "Times’s” corused’ for pumping fuel since the early used for pumping foel since the early stages of construction and was of immense value during the war. LONDON, September 6 ' A message from Spenzia, Italy, said': aßndits held up road transport and stole valuables totalling £1,500,000 from occupants of the city of Spenzia. Reports that General Motors nad purchased the vast Fiat motor works are denied, states the Communist newspaper “Unita,” quoted by Reuter’s Rome correspondent. The newspaper while agreeing that Italian industry would need foreign assistance in perhaps no small measure, says there is a world of difference oetween granting such assistance against guarantees of business stability, and pure simple snapping up of great Italian industrial trusts by secret purchase. The newspaper demands that financial deals with foreign countries or financial groups be made public. The Press censorship ended in Great Britain exactly six years after it began. Coinciding with the removal of the censorship was a warning by Mr Harold Ffotilkes, in. his presidential address to the Institute of Journalists, that politicians in future might try to keep information from the press. Mr Ffoulkes said: “The passion for secrecy in cloaking affairs affecting the common weal is not wholly a legacy of war. It is an unhappy but an inescapable fact that the difficulties of access to facts- and the disclosure and distribution to' the world of information which affected the future of millions of people are still being maintained in many quarters. There is an imperative need for the general adoption of the four freedoms. During the war hundreds of censors dealt with 665,560 submissions, involving 183,000,000 words. The censorship of press despatches from Marshal Montgomery’s headquarters is continuing.