NEWS SUPPRESSION PROTEST
LONDON "TELEGRAPH" ON OUSTING OF CORRESPONDENTS. London, August 19. The'"Daily Telegraph," in its leading editorial'to-day, protests against the action of the English and Belgian authorities in ousting newspaper mon from the field of action. : ''The' restrictions placed upon tho work of war correspondents go farther," says the "Telegraph," "than is justified by the attitude of the Press, and than is consistent with public interest. "If all goes as the authorities intend, there will not be any unofficial, full; and independent account of any action fought in tho war. Nobody who is not a soldier will see anything, and the soldiers will. have something else to ;do than.record their observations and impressions. The newspapers do not ask unreasonable things'. They do not do-, siro to publish a "line thought undesirable.' -What they ask is only that the greatest war of modern times should not be fought in" the'total absence of independent' and expert narrators, i "The Government's action would be starving tho nation's interest in the greatest concern fit has,_ and would deprive the future historian of his materials." ..-
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7
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181NEWS SUPPRESSION PROTEST Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 7
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