WAR CORRESPONDENTS PROTEST

Timaru Herald, Volume CLVII, Issue 23215, 31 May 1945, Page 5

WAR CORRESPONDENTS PROTEST

Censorship Operation (•Rec. 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, May 30. A protest against the censorship has been made by war correspondents accredited to' the British Second Army. They passed the following resolution:— “That war correspondents attached to the Second Army call the attention of the Press ■ and public to the following facts: (1) “The end of the war in Europe has not led to the hoped for diminution of censorship. Instead we find the censorship not only maintained without reasons of military security to justify it. but in certain circumstances it has been intensified. <2) “We feel the present policy is keeping back news of general interest to the public. (3) “Unnecessary restrictions have been placed on correspondents obtaining news about Nazi war criminals and reporting adequately events inside Germany. In recent weeks correspondents had reports censored only to find the censored information officially released elsewhere. <4) “The latest instance of unnecessary, interference with the right to report events in occupied Germany is the case of Joyce. The correspondents found their reports restricted for reasons which had nothing to do with military security. (5) “The correspondents feel that, the entire present policy of news control censorship must be reviewed."