PRESS IN FRANCE

Patea Mail, 15 November 1939, Page 4

PRESS IN FRANCE

GENERAL SORT'S SPEECH NEED FOR RESTRICTIONS General Lord Oort, Conunaudor-iu-Chiel of the British Expeditionary Force, after a ceremonial luncheon given for the representatives of the British, Dominions ami American press “somewhere in France, ” stated that lie was supremely cenlident that, come what might, the British Army, which lie had the honour to command, would prove ever 'worthy of its iinest traditions. The Cominander-in-Ghief quoted the description of the war as consisting of “long periods of intense (boredom intermingled with short periods of intense fear. ” He declared that the Army regarded the representatives of the press as being “collaborators and co-operators,” and asked thorn to have patience under the restrictions which inevitably must be placed upon them in the exercise of their duties. In support of his request, he quoted several cases from his own experience in which articles in obscure German provincial papers had been of the greatest utility to the Allies during the world war. The Commandcr-in-Chicf extended a special welcome to the representatives of the press of the United States, “the greatest neutral.” In conclusion pipers belonging to a distinguished Irish regiment played a sot of pipes, which was terminated by a ceremonial toast, the pipers "draining their glasses at one draught and turning them downwards before the Com-mandcr-in-Chicf.