July 13.
'The news published in yesterday's issue, to the effect that the Ministry of Information will launch an urgent intensive campaign to organize Great' Britain into a "sixth column" to kill rumours, and indiscreet talk, raises local question which Britons and their allies would do well to consider. Old residents will remember the familiar "Bunder," a rumour set afoot by whom nobody knew, and yet which invariably took a great deal of Killing. Of recent years they have become more frequent, and even more persistent, and there is not a' newspaper in town which has not, time after time, had to spend much effort merely to prove that current stories were not {ruie. In most instances they were traceable to the more disreputable manipulators of currency and operators on the local share market, seeking to wrest a small profit by the launching of rumours calculated fo affect the market one way or another. There is no way of dealing with these people, or of punishing their very apparent dis
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