RIGID CONTROL OF PRESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 9

RIGID CONTROL OF PRESS

GREEK DICTATORSHIP NO NEWS FROM MOSCOW SOFIA. Aug. 14. The dictatorship sot up in Greece by General Metaxas, the Premier, last week, has established a rigid mail, telephone and telegraph censorship. The press has been brought completely under Government control.

Tho leading newspapers have been forbidden to print any political comment, and instructed to confine political news to official Communiques. Confidential orders given to the press include tho following: "•Do not write Anything against Germany or National-Socialism;

"Do not print anything from Moscow; "Do not give too much space to crime, murder and violence."

The iGovemment demands that at least one leading article in each paper shall praise tho new regime in every issue. Several newspapers have decided to 'dose. down.

The censorship has been extended to mails going abroad, especially messages from foreign corrcsp on dents to their papers. The Athens correspondent of tho official Jugoslav news agency "Avala," M. •Ja'nkoviteh, was expelled by an order issued :by General Mctaxns because of his statement that certain political leaders hold the King responsible for tho dictatorship. Another correspondent, representing tho Jugoslav paper Vrema, and a Jewish newspaper man have been arrested.