WAR REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2703, 24 February 1916, Page 5

WAR REGULATIONS

MORE SECRECY PRECAUTIONS

IMPORTANT PROHIBITIONS

Important additional regulations under the War Kegulations Act were gazetted last night. The first seven of tlip regulations concern the granting of probate or letters <of administration under the will of enemy alien?, and otliar mattors ing to tl)e estates of enemy aliens in New Zealand.

The more important- of the regulations are as follow

No person shall, without the written consent of a military authority, publish, or cause or permit to be published, in a newspaper any statement as to Ihe cargo laden or about to be laden on any ship which is about to leave Now /ifwknd for the United' Kingdom ir any other place north of the Equator, or which is in the course of its voyage from New Zealand to the United Kingdi'in or any such place as aforesaid, or any statement as to the use or intended use of any suoh ship for f the carriage ot troops or otherwise in the service of tin; Crown-'ill respect of the present war..

Nc- person shall, except in the royrso or his-lawful business in relation, to any such ship or cargo as is mentioned in the last preceding regulation, send oj- cause to •be sent out of New Zealand by means of any telegram; letter, ar otherwise howsoever any information as to the cargo laden or about to be laden in any such ship or as to the use or intended use of any such ship for ihe Csirriuge; of troops or otherwise in the service of, the Crown in respect of the present war. Clause .2 of the War Regulations of February 22, liJlo, prohibiting the publication of information with respect to certain matters therein specified, is hereby amended by inserting'after paragraph (iv) thereof the following paragraph:—"(v.) The armament of any merchant ship." ■ No person shall publish,, or oause or permit 'to be published, any- confidential communication received by himself or any other person from a military authority;

For the purpose of . this regulation a communication shall be deemed to be published if the whole or any part thereof is jhibh'shed, or if any reference to the receipt or nature thereof is pub-; lisbd. ,' ' ''. <

For the purpose of this regulation, the term "confidential . cbmmunicatiQn" means any communication or statement in writing purporting to be confidential or secret and in any manner relating to the present war.

No person shall publish or permit to be published any matter or' statement which in any manner indicates or m?y be reasonably supposed to indicate the existence therein of any omission, al-'; teration, or addition due to censorship.

Censorship means the act, direction, or request of any officer or other person exercising or purporting to exercise, whether, in New Zealand ar. olsct where, .control over- the transmission or publication of matter relative 1 the present war.

.A military authority may, B'y ; nqtice signed by him and delivered or transmitted by post or telegraph H:o the proprietor, publisher, or pouter . of any . newspaper .or other periodical-.publica-. ' tion, prohibit the publication "of any, natter ov • kind of matter relative 'to the present war; the receipt o.f ' such notice by the proprietor, publisher, or printer of any newspaper or other periodical publication, neither he nor any other person shall iiublish, or cause or permit to be published, therein of in connection therewith any matter in breach of such.prohibition.