IN GERMAN HANDS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 24000, 25 June 1941, Page 8

IN GERMAN HANDS

[BRITISH GENERAL RESCUED FLYING-BOAT'S MISHAP '{Reed. 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, June 24 A flying-boat of the Coastal Command is missing from a recent flight to the Mediterranean. The German news agency said a German aeroplane had rescued a British brigadier-general, a Royal Air Force flight-lieutenant and a eergeant in the Bay of Biscay, where they had been drifting for several days in a collapsible rubber boat. RELEASE OF NEWS FAVOURITISM ALLEGED PROTEST BY JOURNALISTS '(Reed. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, June 23 A deputation from the Institute of Journalists- protested to Mr. Harold Nicolson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Information, against the preferential treatment accorded the British Broadcasting Corporation in the issue of public statements and important news. The deputation submitted recent examples and described them "as instances of deliberate discrimination against the newspapers," adding that it was impossible to resist the conclusion that the frequent release of important news items in time for the British Broadcasting Corporation's news broadcasts was more than coincidence. The deputation asked "for a. fair chance against a monopolistic undertaking which would be no less effective in its own sphere if a meed of common justice were given the newspapers." Mr. Nicolson. who received the deputation on behalf of the Minister of Information. Mr. Duff Cooper, denied the allegations of favouritism toward the British Broadcasting Corporation, but promised to lay the deputation's case before Mr. Duff Cooper. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE .BRITISH GOVERNMENT PLAN DIFFICULTIES IN WAY (Reed. 1.25 a.m.) LONDON, June 24 It is revealed that the British Government had planned to hold an Imperial War Conference at the end of July or early in August. However, the Prime Minister of South Africa, General Smuts, and the Prime Minister of Canada, 'Mr. W. L. Mackenzie King, had both decided that the exigencies of their present duties made it impossible for them to travel to Britain in the near future. A date for the conference cannot be fixed at present. The Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, eaid in the House of Commons to-day that there were great difficulties in getting ;the leaders of the Dominions to Britain simultaneously at the present time. He still hoped it would be possible to hold such a conference at some time in the future, but he was unable to indicate when it would be. 3VIR. FRASER IN LONDON CONSULTATIONS HELD LONDON, June 1 The Prime Minister of New Zealand. Mr. Peter Fraser, yesterday con I erred Vvith the meat controller, Mr. R. S. Forsyth, and the butter controller. Mr. H. E. Davis, and also had a long conference with Mr, William Goodfellow. managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, who has lately been investigating extended marketing possibilities for New Zealand produce. He later had a conference with the Minister of Food, Lord Woolton, and Mr. Arthur Greenwood, Minister without Portfolio, on the same topic. Mr. Fraser announced that alter consultation with the New Zealand Government, he was si hie to state that his Government entirely concurred with the policy Mr. Churchill laid down in his broadcast speech in reference to the German attack on Russia. New Zealand was glad to associate itself with Britain. Mr. Fraser attended his first War Cabinet meeting to-day.