FAMOUS JOURNAL'S END

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22284, 9 June 1934, Page 22

FAMOUS JOURNAL'S END

.»- VOSSISCHE ZEITUNG PASSES EDITOR'S FAREWELL ARTICLE. One of the oldest newspapers in Europe, tbe Vossische Zeitung, founded in 1704, ceased publication on March 31, states the Berlin correspondent of the Morning Post. It had for long bwn the most interestingly written and test printed daily newspaper in Germauy. During the past 12 months it has also been the frankest. The editor, Herr Arich Welter, maintains to the last the traditional policy of outspokenness. "The pendulum has swung," he wrote in his farewell editorial, " from unrestrained statement of opinion to over-discipline. It seems to us unnecessary to withhold from the German reader news that he can read —sometimes in exaggerated form—in foreign newspapers.

"If the bridle is loosened a littlo" there will be a simultaneous reduction in German payments for foreign newspapers. The closing of certain provinces of discussion must also be regarded as a merely temporary measure." This last word of warning to rhe Propaganda Ministry is timely, for many of the 41,000 Germans bereft of «h-s Vossisehe Zcitung are likely to become subscribers to foreign newspapers. Only by reading British, French, or Swiss newspapers can inquiring Germans obtain information on such interesting suoJocts.as the German Church dispute, German military expenditure, and bomb throwing in Unter den Linden. Another newspaper that took farewell of its readers is the Hamburgische Korrespondent, which had enjoyed a run of 150 years.