DUCE LISTENS-IN ALSO

Northern Advocate, 4 January 1938, Page 5

DUCE LISTENS-IN ALSO

(Received 3 p.m.) LONDON, January 3

Signor Mussolini personally listened to the Arabic broadcast, says the “Daily Mail’s” Rome correspondent. A news bulletin consisted almost entirely of accounts of disorder and bloodshed all over the world, beginning with disorders in the Egyptian Parliament, and finishing with the Spanish war. Italy was not even mentioned. The Jerusalem correspondent of ‘The Times” says that, from the viewpoint of propaganda, a most unfortunate effect was created by the announcement, in the course of the news bulletin, of the hanging of the Arab captured in recent

fighting. Diffusion of European music is also criticised as distasteful to Orientals. Italian stations are believed to have engaged the services of distinguished Arab artists, and men of letters at high fees. The British station must be prepared to spend at least equal sums for the same purpose. It would probably be more practicable, the correspondent" suggests, to broadcast from Jerusalem.