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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9955, 26 April 1918, Page 4

The Germans are evidently afraid of international journalists assembling at Sydney at Eastertide next year ana discussing tho military situation, W say nothing of tho German propaganda of wholesale lying in neutral territories. So they have boon doing their utumost to prevent' foreign journalists from attending tho gathering. Writing on this point, Mr' Walter Williams president of the World’s Press Union, says: “Some German journalists m Switzerland have, made unofficial representations to the Swiss Press Association objecting to the representation of that association in the Press Congress, upon the grounds that the sessions of the* congress are to be held in a belligerent country, Australia, and that tho president of the congress is a citizen of a belligerent, country, the United Statc s of America. It is pleasing and significant to learn that these representations failed of their purpose, and the Swiss Press Association will carry out their expressed desire of being represented at Sydney by official delegates. Another effort with the same end in view by Gorman propagandists in Holland .met with no .oneonragement from tho journalists of Holland, and has apparently been abandoned.” On the authority of “La Presna,” on© of tho leading journals in Buenos Ayres, there will be a strong and thoroughly representative gathering of Argentina delegates at Sydney next year.