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• THE BOMBER PRESS IN
GREAT BRITAIN
Article No, 27
English Newspapers in Wartime
Another iu a series of articles writ-
ten by L. R, Legge and C. V.
Charters, who represented tae Can.
adieu Weekly Newspapers Assooia'
tion Ina recent• torr overseas.
By Walter R. ,Legge
Like everything else, the news
papers in England have been very
much changed by the war. Imagine
news stands which will not sell you
a newspaper. Imagine the advertis-
ing managers of newspapers being
courted by those who are trying to
buy a Iittle of the space avatl3ble.
You Roll Them i3efferWith
pecee to four Nees. In addirt.o,,, the
cel m11 111011 has been Cut frim
12o,o00 daily average to 050,000.
Several hunched application; for
subscriptions each day have to be
refused. 'I'lite is typical of the re-
t;trict1ons on all the newspapers,
All of these plants have duplicate
plants deep In the ground, very
comfortably and completely fitted up
so that the entire work of getting
out the paper can be ear.•tetl on
without interruption during raids.
Moreover, several of these papers
have complete plants In other cities
where some editions 'are printed
every day. Por instance, the Daily
Express, which has a daily circula-
tion of about two and a half tut,'lions.
is printed in three places, London,
Manchester and Glasgow. They are
so co-ordinated by wire service that
although they are set up and made
up tai each city, they are exactly
alike on most pages.
One of our first experiences was, at
Me news stand in our London hotel.
We. had heard rumours of the Dieppe
raid which took place just as we
were leaving Canada, but we hacl not
read anything about it. We were
anxious to see a newspaper. How.
ever•, the news stand could not sell
ns one unless it was orcleree, in
ach•ar ce.
Thus we abruptly learned to ap-
preciate a privilege which we do not
think about here, the privilege of
being able to buy e. newspaper at
any time. .
People over there are now glad to
have any paper at ,all. The privilege
of having a paper delivered every
day Is a highly prized one. A
householder who goes away for , a
time often finds on his return that
someone else has taken the right to
get his daily paper, and it may be a
hard task to get back in the good
graces of the- paper bon
. People travelling on a brain will
nearly always pass their newspaper
around to the other people in the
romprtmemt a .fie. they have read it.
Newsprint ie severely rationed in
Demand, 1, Nrot our) have the pub-
lishers been. forced to reduce the
nurber of pages to a fraction of the
uesuml volume, but .the circulation
has tact to he drastically Curtailed.
In maug ruses the 'size of the pages
and the width of the columns have
• been reduced.
Our party was entertained at the
Deily Telegraph, the Daily Express,
The• Tintes, and Reuters Agency. We
were shown through their plants and
'given every courtesy.
At one of these newspapers, we
found that the paper has been cut
down from an average issue of. 28
New C.P.R. Engines Keep Canada's War Goods Rolling
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he first of 20 powerful new break of the war, with all of
fL freight locomotives of the
:Mikado 2-8-2 class being added by
the Canadian . Pacific Railway
this ,year,. Engine No. 5417 was.
delivered on March 31 and put
into hniiedtate service in the all-
important jab df• ]seeping Can
rule's' War•" materials rolling ori'
schedule,Completion of the con-
tract held by. Canadian Leonia.
tive Company in lC.ingsten Ont.,
will bring to. 84 the number of
new locomotives added by the
Canadian Pacific since the alit.
them sorely needed to meet busi-
ness demands which in 1942
showed a 49.8 percent. increase.
over 1939.
Theizl Construction maxking tits
use for the first time' o£ cdnsidt
able Canadian -made boiler shell
plate, so fat' as, is known, the now
Mikado -type ,locomotives also
have in'thetr nralteup Cantidiatt-
made tender tank • Plato' in lluaza-
City for the first time,Wore
the war these materials came
from the United States and from
England but the substitutes wore
o
necessary to avoid delay in delis.
ery of the locomotives, which, were
ordered in January of '1042.
The fist noVf, �Mikddo-type 10.
comet -me is shown Isere, with a
close-up of two of its' 68 -inch
driving wheels. It will haul up
to 5,600' tons or the equivalent of
a 100 -car train, depending on the
grades, and is so Counter -balanced
it eau bo used for heavy passen-
ger work when rEguired, •su& atf
the hauling of the long troop
trains which must go through on
tinge, Canadian Pact/ie Photo,
Advertising has been cut to almost
the same degree as the rest of the
Paper, The Daily Telegraph, we
were told, refuses abet t thirty
columns. of ,advertising every day.
Display advertising usually has to
be booked several weeks in advance,
and even• then without any guarantee
that it will appear. In case's where
legal advertising must appear before a$e
a certain date, care must be taken to
advise the client if It cannot be
Printed, in. order that an effort may
be made to have it printed else-
where.
Advertisements for beer and liquor
may still be carried in the English
papers, although they are now
banned in Canada.
With so much difficulty in obtain-
ing advertising space in the news-
papers, it is not surprising to see •a
new development. Large members of
notices, that ordinarily would be
want ads in the papers, arc now
displayed on small cards in shop
windows.
'We saw a great many of . such
advertising cards, not paunted, but
written by 'hand, placed on. display
in the shop windows in many of the
cities we visited. We do not know
whether the shopkeeper makes a
charge for all these notices (al-
though eve heard that some 01)00-
keepers oharge 8 shillings), and we y—.eli<ARG + •�
wondered If this practice will eon.
trine after the war is over,
It is not surptisiug, with curtail,
meets iu the. size and number of
pages of the newspapers, that the
news Is also condensed. There are
a great many very short items
making up the news columns, but'
taking into 'consideration Lite •diffI •'�+
culties under which they are operat-
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ins, the British newspapers are 44t, Also 11.12 a.m. when possible.
very reachable and give a surprising. ++ , Saturday evenings until 10 p.m.
I t heir disposaly good news coverage Ne wsirofth Canada Ye ce
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Weekly papers have •increased
their price from two pence to three
pence per issue, advertising rates
have increased about fifty per cent
since the start of the war, and the
papers• have decreased in size.
In England, the press is still free.
The newspapers are able to ohoose
what they shall print, and free to
criticize anybody and anything, In
the Axils lands and in the countries
the Axis have overrun, thhse what
print the unbiased news, and offer
Any criticism, do so under constant
Peril of death.
"It's a bottle of hair tonic, dear."
"Oh, that's very nice of 700,
darling."
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typist at the office; her hair is
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well presented,
We found . that the C•t.nacllan
soldiers are quite worried because
it is no longer permitted to send
papers over by mail, except actual
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N.4.ALL KINDS OF
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banned. They .appreciate the home o°o+r Accident and Sickness
paper now in a way that the, never Agent for Great West Life Insurance Co
slid before they left home. "Thee 4 4 S�
react every worn if it. One officer o2+ 'PHONE OFFICE 92X a Did
remarked that its considered a o�. RESIDENCE a7 -s-2 Brussels, Ont. 6th
boatload of papers from home is a 8•v esmanam em,®, ileame . y,nArfilisaeae .•, it;a1
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Harold Jackson it..
One reason why Bits restriction i'.riction 4; c�.
SPECIALIST 1N; FARM AND 'HOUSEHOLD SALES, ��
was placed on Cnnattbau papers sues
that some Publishers • 05.11 been �® (Licensed in Huron and Perth Counties) ��
bundling up their over -mu, and , t+gt7CE, FEASONABLE; SATISFACTION GUARANTEED �'+
sending them over to be distributed, 00 Poi, Information, etc., write or phone Harold Jackson, 12 on•5 e.. +2l
We were told by one service worker Seaiorth;R.R. 1, i9ruesnetei. of
that he had seen at one tinge 000 +1,4''' Make arrangements at The Brussels Post or Elmer D. Ball, ®i
brags of such papers, andire simply o$p a.
dill net know what to do with them. Barrister et#leo, +4k
There is ea doubt hat the publish, till
ors who sent then%, were anxiortet to
help. They thought It was a good
tering to do, but it actually was a
misguided effort.
It was a great pleasure to be able
to Vistt one of the leading weekly
newspapers, "The Banbltry Guar&
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served his apprenticeship, This is +_
one of the older weeklies of England
and has been dWned ''by' .this slime
taml1yler a great many years,.
it is interesting to compare
pre5ont•dey training with that of
seventy years ago, In his memoirs,
Mr, George Legge said; '!'1Lhe train-
ing l got in this establishment,
covered a much wider range than
he teehnioal :schools of fogey,—
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washing rollers, sorting nye, fetch.
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