What must be the neatest amateur newspaper ever published is "Rundblick" the Christmas number of which is now in the hands of its readers.
Its "public" are the German prisoners at Camp 230 at Helenburgh, who themselves report, sub-edit, illustrate, print and publish the paper. Running 16 pages of ordinary office duplicating paper, it has a news section contributed by its own staff, feature articles specially submitted, illustrations and cartoons.
Now past its first year of publication, "Rundblick" is largely the work of its editor, P.O.W. Werner Hennemann, who was a newspaperman in Germany before the war, and of Werner Kausch, formerly a compositor. Deprived of much opportunity for newspaper "scoops," "Rundblick" has, nevertheless, shown considerable enterprise in obtaining an interview with Miss Brigitte Krueger, the first German newspaper correspondent to Britain since the war.
Vital News
Familiar with this country before the war, Miss Krueger told editor Hennemann that she finds Britain considerably altered.
"I get the distinct impression" she says, "that Britain is no longer untouched by the problems of Europe and this has had its effect on certain aspects of national life."
Rated "splash" prominence in "Rundblick" is the announcement made in Parliament by a spokesman of the War Office that repatriation of all German P.O.W. in this country will be completed by October 1, 1948.