PROPAGANDA WORK.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1359, 21 June 1918, Page 5

PROPAGANDA WORK.

PRESS CENTRE OPENED. (A. & N.Z.) LONDON, June 10. Lord Beaverbrook (Minister of Information) has opened an overseas Press centre at the Ministry of Information to enable correspondents of the Imperial, Allied, and neutral newspapers to get into closer touch with the Ministry, and each other. The Ministry will furnish them with daily information. BRITISH DETERMINATION. (A. & N.Z.I LONDON, June 20. Lord Beaverbrook, speaking at the opening of the Overseas Press Centre, said that the soldiers could only be supplied with munitions in ever-increasing quantities if the hearts of the people at Home were as firmly fixed on the ultimate results of the conflict as the hearts of the soldiers. The entire British nation must be engaged in the conflict with every weapon at its command. Not only was the sentiment of the Army of consequence, but also the sentiment of the people, who supplied the Army with munitions. The British armies on March 21 were subjected to their greatest reverse in this long conflict. All would remember the way the Army retreated in the face of an attack by overwhelming German forces. The English people the day after the battle, when they realised the nature of the news, were more determined and more set in their purpose than ever before. The overseas journalists would be offered facilities to enable them to see that never in the long, glorious history of the nation had we put so much into the conflict, and would realise that, no matter what might be the fortune of the forces in the field, the British race was determined to persevere to the end. The road might, perhaps,, be long arid hard, but he was convinced that in perseverance lay ultimate victory.

THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Rcc. June 21, 9.0) LONDON, June 20. Lord Beaverbrook, in opening the overseas press centre, " established tor the purpose of providing Imperial, Dominion and Allied and neutral newspaper correspondents with a rallying point in touch with each other and the Ministry of Information, said the Ministry wanted them to realise the full extent of the British war effort. He wished to give the Press facilities to study the psychology of the British people. The position of the armies in the field as shown on the map, was not the only evidence on which final conclusions could be based. In the old days, when small mercenary armies were engaged, the will and determination of the people did not matter much. Now, with whole nations engaged in the war, and the whole male populations plunged in the conflict, everything depended on the will and determination of the peoples engaged in the struggle.