CABLE CENSORS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12306, 5 August 1914, Page 5

CABLE CENSORS.

NO CODE MESSAGES.

(Pee Press Association.) Wellington, August 4. The Defence Department lias issued a memorandum giving further intimation ro the censorship of telegrams, cables and wireless messages, wlneli are accepted at sender's risk subject to censorship, and no claim for reimbursement will be considered. The sender s name must be given at the end. _ Code and cvpher messages arc forbidden, and registered abbreviated addresses will notT be accepted. The memorandum savs: "It is realised that these arrangements may cause inconvenience, and even expense, to the public, but they have been considered necessary after much thought- and deliberation by the Imperial Government. The regulations have been thought out as carefully I'osible beforehand. It must be realised that no changes are possible now without risk of throwing the work of the whole scheme into confusion. The letter of the regulations must b<: adhered to now New Zealand is playing her part in tlio interests of the Empire. In regard to inward press messages by ordinary cable route, it is understood that "there may be some little delay for a day or two until the censors have become' thoroughly conversant with their work.'' It is understood .that press messages already marked as censored by the Imperial authorities will not be" subjected to dela^v