Censorship Lifted

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28159, 24 December 1956, Page 11

Censorship Lifted

(Rec. 9.30 p.<m.> JAKARTA. December 22.

Central Post Office officials said today that foreign correspondents’ cables about the reported coup in Central Sumatra which were held on orders of Army Headquaters yesterday had been released for transmission this morning and that no further censorship would he applied. Army personnel yesterday attempted to cancel cables already transmitted and later applied a complete blackout on news of the Central Sumatran development for overseas transmission.

Censorship was also applied to certain stories and the editorial for nublication in today’s issue of the Jakarta daily “Indonesia Raya” after the editor. Mr Mochtar Lubis. was arrested by the military police. The paper appeared with large blank spaces where the stories and editorial had been censored.

The “Indonesia Raya.” an independent newspaper, was the first paper to carry the full story. Mr Lubis has beeh a sharp critic of the Government and Army leaders in Djakarta.

Laws Relating to Sea.— The United Nations Legal Committee yesterday voted to hold a world diplomatic conference to examine the law of the sea. The conference, to which all United Nations State members as well as members of the specialised agencies, are invited will be neld in Rome early in March, 1958.—New York, December 22.