MILITARY CENSORSHIP
ATTITUDE OF PRESSMEN PERTH, July 15. Any measure which reduced the number of newspapers in Australia would be very harmful, said Mr George Weller, war correspondent of the Chicago Daily News, in an address at the University of Western Australia. Pressmen to-day willingly submitted to military censorship, he said. They no longer'attempted to dodge the censorship. as Mr-Churchill had done in the Boer War. As war correspondent for a London paper, Mr Churchill used to send despatches in anagram and acrostic form. The public should, however. watch for signs of restrictions on journalists, who had an obligation to give their readers the truth without sparing military or political leaders.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24969, 16 July 1942, Page 5
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