DIRECTOR OF CENSORSHIP'S NEW POST
SPECIALISED NAVAL CONSTRUCTION FORMER OFFICE NOW VESTED IN CONTROLLER [U.P.A.-By Electric Telegraph-Copyright] (Received 9th January, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Bth January. The Home Office announces that Vice-Admiral Usborne, Director of Censorship, has resigned in order to undertake new work of national importance for which the experience and service particularly qualify him in connection with specialised naval construction under contracts for the Admiralty. The office of chief censor lapses, and supreme control will be vested in Sir Walter Monckton, the Controller of Censorship. A NEW IDEA Vice-Admiral Usborne becomes Managing Director of a ship construction firm entirely devoted to Government work. He is working out a new idea which has become a very big thing. WARM TRIBUTES PAID [British Official Wireless] (Received 9th January, 10 a.m.) RUGBY, Bth January. The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, and the Director-General of the Press and Censorship Bureau, Sir Walter Monckton, paid warm tributes this morning to the valuable services Vice-Admiral Usborne has rendered. Vice-Admiral Usborne is one of the foremost gunnery experts in the Navy and was head of the Naval Intelligence Department from 1930 to 1932.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXIII, 9 January 1940, Page 2
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