Italian Editor Whose Plant Printed N.Z. Army Papers

Wanganui Chronicle, 30 October 1948, Page 5

Italian Editor Whose Plant Printed N.Z. Army Papers

LONDON. Oct. 29 (Recd. 8 pm).— Dottore Luigi de Sechly, editor of “La Gazzetta del Mebbogiorno,” of Bari, Southern Italy, who is a member of a party of Italian editors at present visiting Britain, has .good reason to remember the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and the years 1944-45, 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 publications, including the “2nd N.Z.E.F. Times.” Other newspapers published on the Bari plant were the Bth Army’s daily paper “Crusader,’’ and the British force s official daily “Union Jack.” The plant also was extensively used for printing propaganda leaflets which were dropped in millions all over German occupied Italy and the Balkans. During this period de Sechlys paper was well down the list of priorities, and although it continued tp publish regularly, in time of publication it •more frequently than not lived up to its title, which, in Italian, means “the Midday Gazette.” De Sechly, however, bears no illwill and told New Zealand journaists in London, who were members of the staff of the “N.Z.E.F. Times” during the war. hat he still remembered “with pleasure’ the New Zealanders who took iver his linotypes and printing resses.