DIRECTION IN BRITAIN
Rec. 9 a.m. LONDON, Sept. 2. The Government has directed that the machinery of Press censorship should be wound up from 8 a.m. today after the signing of the surrender terms in Tokio Bay. The Chief of Press Censorship, Admiral G. P. Thompson, announcing the cessation of the censorship, paid a tribute to the manner in which editors had wholeheartedly co-operated throughout the war and prevented any breach of security. The success of the voluntary system was entirely due to the unremitting care which editors had exercised to avoid disclosing information of value to the enemy, said Admiral Thompson. During exactly six years of censorship the messages submitted totalled more than 183,000,000 words.
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 6
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116DIRECTION IN BRITAIN Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 55, 3 September 1945, Page 6
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