CIRCULATING WAR NEWS.
PAPER NEARLY EXHAUSTED ONLY SIX WEEKS' SUPPLY. CRITICISM OF CENSORS. (Received August 12, 7.53 p.m.) London, August 11. A paper famine is imminent. The price has advanced from Id per lb to lid. * It is estimated that the reserve supplies are equivalent to ten peeks' normal supply, but in consequence of the increased demand by newspapers they will last only six weeks. ' : .--.,-
Mr. T. P. O'Connor, M.P. for the Scotland division of Liverpool, speaking in the House of Commons, asked the Postmaster - General whether he was aware that thousands of pounds were being wasted owing to the Bystem of censorship. He asserted that messages are being censored three times in London, three times in Waterville, and three times on the other side of the Atlantic. He requested that the function of censorship should be performed by trained journalists. The Postmaster-General, Mr. C. E. Hobhouse, replied that the War Office, and not the Post Office, controlled the censorship. -J . .
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15686, 13 August 1914, Page 8
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