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MORE HUMAN PACIFIC
STORIES SOUGHT
TWE British public could do with more individual news
from the Pacific fronts — stories of hardship and
human interest, which would make people realise the
conditions under which Australians and Americans were
driving back the Japanese— a London man said in Ade
laide today.
O'E is Mr. Lancelot Spicer, Lon
?*??*? don director of Spicers and
Detmold, Ltd., paper merchants,
who is visiting Australia.
However, he said, in the past
four months people in England
had become increasingly con
scious of the Pacific war, and now
read it with as much interest as
was given the European cam
paign.
'At one time there was a danger
that people in Great Britain would
find it difficult to-retain interest in
the Pacific war after hostilities
ended in Europe,' he continued.
'This has how been rectified by
an intense Government propaganda
campaign to publicise the exploits
of the 14th Army in Burma, and
by the additional British interest in
the Pacific, because of the presence
of the British Navy there.'
Mr. Spicer added that the British
public had always realised that
Australian troops in New Guinea
were faced with grave difficulties.
But very few stories of the Pacific
war used to be published in Lon
don.
News about the Far Eastern
campaign was limited to com
muniques of losses and gains.
Since the public interest had
been awakened to the hazards of
jungle warfare, there had been
better stories of the island fight
ing.
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