EIGHT NAMES FOR CENSOR.

Mataura Ensign, 13 January 1916, Page 5

EIGHT NAMES FOR CENSOR.

RV AMF.RfCAX JOURNALIST. A criticism of the British was delivered by Mr Edward Price- BelfT London correspondent. of the- 'Chicago Daily News. 1 at the Anif rioan Luncheon Club, Savoy Hotel, London, lately. lie said that in some of its operations the censorship had bo<Mi a calamitous libel upon the British nation. There w.-.s evidence to show the. censorship might justly be described as': Chaotic, discriminatory, iinchivalrous, political, destructive, ludicrous, incompet"nt. and incredible. "One of the greatest mistakes the' censorship has ever made, to my thinbng.' 1 said Mr Price Hell, "is the nii&-; . take of suppressing all independent re--ports of the Zopuelin raids. Localities apart. I cannot conceive anything we could Ir.'ve written about the raids that would not lu-.ve been good for Great Rritain. We were willing to spend hundreds, even thousands, of pounds to tell the story of these crimes. We were not norm it feu. The censor «nid to lis, in effect, 'You shall not arouse against the Hermans the indignation of the world."

"While emphasising the need for a vigilant military censorship. Mr Price ]?e!l said that lie could not understand why tlio censor shou'd be afraid of anvtliiiitr the Ger nan-;, Austrian*, or Turks might to sn.y. Hp ridiculed the idea (hat neutrals, and 'especially Americans, would bo turned against the Allies by false news from Germany. America's good will would he far more likely io he kept hv courage and caiidmir than by e.\c : sion or suppression. "The Berlin wireless enab'es America to keep unerring check on British molestation <:\' Gorman telegram*. - Tb*» Pritish censor's cutting or killing .of American telegrams from Genuanv reminds one of a child that thinks he is hidMvp; when lie is in full view.'' • The Amei-'c-in press wan.ted privileges 'vlr'cli the British ought to have. Mr Palmer had boon to the Grand Fl-cet. Xot one man but a score should be at work.