NOT TO BE SUPPRESSED.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19320, 6 May 1926, Page 9

NOT TO BE SUPPRESSED.

NEWSPAPERS OF BRITAIN. GOVERNMENT NEWS SHEET. SMALL EDITION OF TIMES. CIRCUMVENTING THE STRIKERS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received 8.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Reuter.-Sun. LONDON, May 5. The Government this morning published a penny newspaper called " The British Gazette." This consists of four sheets but the inside pages are blank. The first issue | comprises 700,000 copies. The Gazette explains its object is to reply to the plan of the strike-makers to paralyse public opinion. It goes oil to say: " Nearly all the newspapers have been silenced by violent and concerted action 1 and the people of this great nation have for the moment been reduced to the level of African natives, dopendent only on rumours carried from place to place. "In a few days, if this were allowed to continue, these rumours would poison the air, raise panics and disorders and carry us to depths which no sane man in any party or class would care even to contemplate." Paper Office Strongly Guarded. The article proceeds:—"Tho circula- j tion of the Gazette can be raised by means of the unlimited resources of the State until it provides a sure and sufficient means of information and a guide for action to all British citizens. Tiie nation is urged to be strong and acquit themselves like men. Uio first day of the strike was not»so complete a success as the promoters had hoped, for more trains were running than on tho first day of the 1919 railway strike. Reports from all parts of the country indicate that recruiting arrangements are satisfactory." The office where the Gazette is published and the vans which carry the paper are strongly guarded. The paper is delivered to the more distant districts by aeroplane. Many printing firms had offered the Government tho use of their staffs and works for publishing its news-sheet. Other Papers in New Guise. The Times to-day published a sheet 13in. by B£in. It was printed on both sides and was sold at the usual price of the paper. The Daily Express issued a hand sel single sheet iand distributed it gratis throughout London. Tho National Union of Journalists has ordered its members to remain at work unless non-union labour is introduced id other departments for the purpose of producing substitute newspapers. The linotype operators have so far not struck. They are to meet to-day to consider tho question of breaking away from the main newspaper union. It is reported that the proprietors of several London daily papers are considering printing their papers in Paris and bringing them to London by aeroplane. Practically all the newspapers were suspended yesterday when the public had to rely on the Government broadcasts per medium of the Broadcasting Company. It was suggested that the Morning Tost might appear to-day as a Government organ, a broadcast appeal having been issued to newspaper operatives.