PRESS MEN AT HOME.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16610, 20 August 1918, Page 3

PRESS MEN AT HOME.

I SPEECH BY LOUD XOHTHCLIFFE. Australian and N.Z. CaDJa Assn. LONDON, August 18. Lord Xortbeliffe entertained visiting Prc-ssuien at luncheon in the courtyard of the "Times" office. The guests' included Mr "\V. li\ Massey, Sir Joseph Ward, Sir Thomas Mackenzie and a host of prominent overseas representatives.! Lord iVorihelilVe, after paying a tri-j l-.ute to the overseas war effort*-, said J the Americans had proved to be the goods. WhafGcrtnany called a mob in i uniform had proved to be an entirely ! new and most efficient kind of army. He estimated that America's potential output of air engines was far greater than the combined output of Austria and Germany or the whole of the British empire. America could produce 10,000 air motors monthly. America's efforts at transporting troops, food production and sli.pbu'ild'.ujr. wejo beyond", imagination and the punctuality far in advance of the Government's promises. Crit : c'=ing the British. Government's censorship methods he said the world could never realise the magnitude of Britain's silent effort. The best "proof of what Britain had done existed in the casualty lists, which the censor did not permit to he known to us or our Allies. The Germans knew our casualties to a man. ft was estimated that we/'had j 000,000 killed during the war and that j last year our casualties were over 800,('OO. These figures were sufficient ans- ! wer to German propaganda, and a proof that England rffilly would fight to the last. Lord Northclifto stated that ovory Pacifist newspaper in Britain was subsf- • discd. indicating the lack of demand fur i suck publicaliuiuj

Mr Hackelt replied ou behalf of the New Zealand pressmen. Mr Campbell Jones, on behalf of the Australian pressmen, declared that the British censor was a -juvenile compared with the Australian censor. He believed great injury was done, to the Allied cause by the lack of public understanding iihout many vital aspects of the war. Ninety per cent of this misunderstanding was due to the censorship. Ho gave as an example the improvement in recru.ting in Australia after British reverses, adding. "If you I'.ad a- Sedan you would have all Australia over here."