GESTAPO DEFIED
NEWSPAPERS IN POLAND
134 ANTI-NAZI DAILIES
LONDON, Dec. 20 By strange underground channels there has arrived in London a series of parcels containing copies of 134 different newspapers. Every one of these papers is anti-Nazi and is printed, published and distributed in Poland. The number was a shock even to the Polish officials here, for the Germans have made even the possession of such newspapers punishable by death. Most of the newspapers appear to be dailies. They are well printed, and five of them have first-class pictures. Almost every one carries a cartoon — mostly lampooning the Gestapo for their failure to find the printing presses. On the front of every paper is the 8.8.0. bulletin in Polish for tho previous night. The {Jailies for September 30_ carry speeches by Churchill, Sikorski and Molotoff. It is obvious from the dates that as fast as the Germans close down one paper another takes its place under the same name, but from a different printing press. Day by day every paper carries the warning, "Don't smoke, don't drink, don't go to cinemas." Reason—the Germans draw taxes from all these.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24189, 3 February 1942, Page 6
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188GESTAPO DEFIED New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24189, 3 February 1942, Page 6
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