5 JANUARY 1934, Page 7

Official News The final disappearance of the historic Wolff Bureau,

the Reuter's of Germany, merged as from -last Monday in the official German News Service, is : an event of international importance. The control Herr Hitler's Government may choose to exercise over ' the' German Press is primarily a matter of concern inside Germany. But there has always been a close working arrangement between the great national news agencies—Reuter in London, Havas in Paris, Stefani in Rome, Wolff in Germany and so on—with a good deal of exchange of news between them. It is disturbing to think that messages purporting to give an objective account of events in Germany and emanating actually from an official news agency controlled 'ultimately by a Minister of Propaganda, may gain currency under an irrepioachable aegis in other countries.