PICTURES OF WARSHIPS
ADMIRALTY PROHIBITION.
The following instruction was recently received from the Admiralty for publication in the British press:—
The attention of all concerned in the publication or sale of picture postcards or photographs is drawn to the fact that photographs, profile outlines, drawings, or silhouettes of any of His Majesty's ships, or picture postcards of the same character that might in any way assist enemy agents in the identification of His Majesty's ships, must be regarded as ■coming under-Regulation 18 of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, which forbids the collecting, recording, publishing, or communicating, of any information with respect to the description or_ condition of any of His Majesty's ships, of such a nature as is calculated to be, or might be, directly or indirectly, useful to the enemy or the possession without lawful authority or excuse of any document containing such information.
Photographs, profile outlines, drawings, or silhouttes, and picture postcards of this nature, therefore, should no longer be exposed for sale, and no dealings in such articles, whether by sale or otherwise, should take place during the continuance of the war.
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 3
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186PICTURES OF WARSHIPS Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 110, 5 November 1915, Page 3
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