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H.E.Hopthrow (GS) Diary 30.9.17 - Difficulty in getting newspapers. 19.9.18 - Getting London newspapers everyday.
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S.C.Marriott (GS) Typescript of letters p50, 2.6.15 "The papers up north are saturated with letters about our work and we are rather sick about it". Also 3rd set p7 & 8, 12.10.18 -
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R.J.Bevington (GS) Letters - 2.12.14 No.17 "The inaccuracy and misreporting of the English press are a continual source of wonder and amusement and rage to everyone ... lots of the letters purporting to come from the soldiers are also faked". Rush to read the sports page - not the news (letter 23)
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J.E.Smart (GS) Field Message book 4.1.18 - Letter to Daily Express Sports Fund. Delivery of "Victory Trumpets" used as candlesticks. "Don't insult them [the British Tommy] by representing them as kids ...".
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R.Rapp (GS) Letter 24.5.15 for criticism of Harmsworth Press. Attack on Lord Kitchener "likely to do us considerable harm by creating the impression in Germany that we are a divided house. The Daily Mail has made itself highly obnoxious to all troops out here".
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R.V.Maudsley (GS) Letter 5 (23.2.15) - one or two of the accounts of the fighting rather exaggersted, the majority quite right. Letter 11 (19.5.15) "It is a disgrace that the ,truth is
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In French Section under Robert Crawford - interesting letter, 2.9.14, re escape of English lady journalist for "Truth" from Senlers in face of advancing Germans.
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H.A.Ryott (GS) Letter 6.5.15 "everything in England is misled by the papers which are a long way too optimistic".
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I.L.Read (GS) Memoir p84 - Attitude to journalists at home (specifically in the patriotic magazine John Bull.)
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