BRITISH TROOPS' CONDITION.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 178, 2 September 1914, Page 7

BRITISH TROOPS' CONDITION.

' AN ALARMING TELEGRAM^ MR ASQUITH THREATENS "THE TIMES." LONDON, August 31. Mr Asquith, in the House of Commons, was pressed to permit eorresponents to go to the front, owing to au alarming telegram in yesterday's "Times" in regard to the conditions of the troops at the front. Mr Asquith said it was impossible to commend too highly the patriotic action of the Press, but the publication referred to was a very regrettable exception. He doubted whether correspondents' could be permitted. It might be necessary to legislate drastically if unreliable war news was disseminated. Lord Brassey, in advocating the relaxation of the censorship, recalls the happenings ou the outbreak 'of the South "African War. Telegrams were '. then posted outside the newspaper offices, and when they read of reverses, the people were instantly stirred to ac- ; tion, and contingents organised as a consequence of -well-timed publicity.