THE PRESS CENSORSHIP.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9939, 16 January 1900, Page 2

THE PRESS CENSORSHIP.

The Natal Press is angry on account of the rigorous and what it callg inconsequential censorship on official war des- • patches. The Times of Natal ,saya:— ' "We are doomed apparently to have ojir l loyalty tried to the utmost, and this contemptuous treatment of our colony's anxietvi is but part of the, indignity we, are called upon to bear along with our invaded territory and our looted homes at the hands of those from whom we had expected greater things and better treatment. To have gone to war with, the ' Tranßvaal as a protest against Transvaal methods, including the press-gag, to - find as a result that gag transplantedupon Natal soil is a bit of the irony of " fate which Natal was not prepared for—'*' when she agreed to assist King Stork tooverthrow King Log. fenot the Natal A Press, seeing that it is the mediumrfra™ conveying information to those mosfc"^ immediately concerned, as much entitledto consideration in the matter of news'df t battles as the London Press?" From the . above it will be seen that we in the col- 1 ' ony aro not the' only people who haypi! causo to complain of the dearth of 'war'r news. ■ ' i"