CONTROLLING NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 37, 30 September 1914, Page 7

CONTROLLING NEWS.

H 3W GERMANY WAS ISOLATED.

En!T!S:! AC CADLE CUTTERS

Recent American files >how that the Americans, like New Zeal unlcis, ar« dcpi..de..v o.i London, ; n ilie main nn their war nows. The messages the

American newspapers nave been pnit ing are the same in all essential- as those cabled to New Zeal ml. Ine news services on the Continent oi Europe were busy for a few days, and then the no .vs from Berlin, Baris, Brussels, except what went thiough London, ceased. The following despatch explains why:— THE CABLE CUT. New York, August o. Direct cable communication \ditk Germany was stopped to-day. The German Atlantic cable lines from New York to Emden, via the Azores, were cut about 1.30 a.m. at some point east of thd Azores, possibly by British warships. The Commercial’ Cable Company, which operates the American end of this line, made the announcement of the cutting to-day, and refused to accept messages for Germany. It was denied that the linos had been cut by British warships on this side of the Atlantic. The cable was working, according to announcement, as far as the Azores.

Charles P, Adams, second vice-presi-dent of the Postal Telegraph Company, said there was no trouble with the regular Commercial Cable Corn pany’s lines, which run from New York to Nova Scotia, and thence to points on the English coast. Communication with England over these litres was still beitrg maintained. No hope was held out, however, for any immediate restoration of comnurnication with Germany over the direct litres.

The cutting of the German cable between Emdetr and tiro Azores virtually completes tire isolation of Germany from communication with the outside world, except in so far as messages may be exchanged by wireless.

All direct communication with the United States is served; hereafter all news of happenings in Germany will have to filter through hostile countries —Russia on the oast, France on tin west, and England on the north. . All the submarine lines in the Medi terranoau Sea belong to the Eastern Telegraph Company, a British concern, and any Gorman news that did make its way to south-eastern Europe through Austria-Hungary would nof he transmitted over the lines of this company. , ''

News of the cutting of the German lines between Germany and England may be exepeted any moment. A 1 ready these lines are in the hands of the military authorities, where they land on British territory. The only other possible outlet, tele graphically, for Germany, is to. tli east, hut on this side is hemmed in by Russia, with whom sire is ai

All the land line.s from Germany ii. every direction except to Austria Hungary have been severed. Any cable communication from Ger many to Norway and Sweden whic may still be in operation is compara tively valueless, for the reason iha news, to reach the outside wniin would have to be relayed to England The last direct Berlin message received by the Associated Press was be tween 12 and 1 o’clock last night. T t was the official account of the Br>. Is.i Ambassador’s formal announcemonl to the German Foreign Office of the declaration of war and the Ambas sador’s request for his passports, i | to this time direct communication ever the line that was severed to-da.' had been constant and quick, although subject, of course, to censorship a' Berlin.

The Atlantic Communication Com puny, a German wireless organisation has a high-power station at Saville Long Island, N.Y. This station luu at times communicated successfully with Nauen, near Berlin. The company on Sunday announced that it was closed for all private busmens having been turned over to the Ger man Government.

Messages destined to Austria-Hun-gary or Germany may no longer In. sent over the Western Union cables. That company announced to-day that it had received instructions from the English military censors.

A HIGH) CENSORSHIP. New York, August 11. Advices to the Associated Press from London state that an increasingly rigid censorship is being imposed on all matter from Brussels. This increases the delay on such despatches as are allowed to come through. The French Cable Company which, except those with terminals in the British Islands, is the only direct line to Europe now in operation, has given notice that the congestion on its lines is such that all messages are subject to a minimum delay of 48 hours, lu an effort to avoid this ddav direct despatches of the Associated Press from Paris are being routed through London, hut the delay is also very great. Despatches which left Paris early yesterday are being re reived with a delay of from Id to 17 or more hours, and other Paris despatches have, suffered even greater j delay in transmission. There 'is absolutely no direct communication with Germany nr Austria by any routing. A few censored despatches are coming through via Loudon, and these are re-censored foi transmission out of England, The Associated Press has been mal-

iug every effort to communicate with Germany through the wireless companies operated from New York. On Sunday a message was sent to the Berlin bureau of the Associated Press and the wireless company notified us that it had been received in Gwniu; but since then only fragmentary sin mils have been exchanged over th:r system. Inability to secure wireless communication with Germany since flic cutting of the direct Gorman cable at the outbreak of the war, and the increasing rigor of London censorship still further obscure what has actually transpired within the military zone.