ARMY NEWSPAPERS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26916, 30 October 1948, Page 7

ARMY NEWSPAPERS

DEMANDS ON BARI PLANT ITALIAN EDITOR REMEMBERS NEW ZEALANDERS N.Z.PJV. Special Correspondent Rec. 8 p.m. LONDON, Oct. 29 Signor Dottore Luigi de Sechly, c itor of La Gazzetta Del Mez?ogirono, of Bari, Southern Italy, who is a member of a party of Italian editors at present visiting Britain, has good reason to remember the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force and the years 1944 and 1945, for during those years his newspaper and its plant were partially taken over by the British Army authorities and used for printing a number of army publications. including the Second N.Z.E.F. Times. ~ Other newspapers published on the Bari plant were the Eighth Army s daily paper, Eighth Army News, its weekly. Crusader, and the British forces’ official daily, Union Jack. The plant was also extensively used for printing propaganda leaflets, which were dropped in their millions all over German-occupied Italy and the Balka During this period Signor de Sechly’s paper was well down the list of priorities, and, although it continued to publish regularly, in the time of publication it more frequently than not lived up to its title, which in Italian means the Mid-day Gazette. Signor de Sechly, however, bears no ill-will, and told New Zealand journalistsyin London who were members of the staff of the N.Z.E.F. Times during the war that he still remembered with pleasure the New Zealanders who took over his linotypes and printing presses.