NAVAL RESEARCH

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20140, 9 January 1940, Page 5

NAVAL RESEARCH

CONSTRUCTION WORK EXPERT’S APPOINTMENT l ___ CENSORSHIP LEFT DEVELOPING NEW IDEA (Elec. Ten Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reid. Jan. 9, 10.50 a.m.) LONDON, Jan. 8. The Daily Herald says that the chief censor, Admiral C. V. Usborne, has been asked to resign and has consented. He will shortly take up another Government post. The office lapses and' the supreme control will be vested in Sir Walter Monckton, the director-general of the Press and Censorship Bureau. The Home Office announces that Admiral Usborne resigned in order to undertake new work of national importance for- which his experience in the service will particularly qualify him in connection with specialised naval construction under contracts for the Adimralty. Admiral Usborne becomes the managing director of a ship construction firm entirely devoted to Government work. He is working out a new idea which is expected to become a very big thing. The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, and Sir Walter Monckton paid warm tributes this morning to the valuable services which Admiral Usborne had rendered. He is one of the foremost gunnery experts in the navy and was the head of the naval Intelligence Department from 1930 to 1932.