Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-28
Declares All News Possible
Consistent With Safety Is
Being Given Out.
STEPS ARE BEING TAKEN
TO ASSIST NEWSPAPERS
Daily Graphic Editorially Criticises
Military Suppression of Informa-
ton the Enemy Possesses.

LONDON, August oS.-The protests b,
the British papers against the censorship
and against the country being kept II
darkness over the military operations ha:
| received attention at Premier Asquith' s
hands.
| Replying to a suggestion by James
Hogge. NJ. p. for Edinburgh. in the
house of commons that a trained jour
nalist could be put in charge of the cen
sorship, the premier said:
The government and military authori-
ties recognize to the full the strain which
eis placed on the public. but more especial,
N on the relatives of those on active
service by the scarcity of the informa
ton from the front. and they will do al
in their power to relieve the strain. Inc
principle upon which Information is giver
to the public is that all information which
can be given without prejudice to the
public interests. shall be given fully anc
at once This has and will be done.
The premier explained that the officia
press bureau has access for consultative
purposes to Earl Kitchener. secretary fol
war, and Winston Spencer Churchill frs,
lord of the admiralty. and, in case OF
doubt to the premier. A consultation be-
tween the heads of the departments ano
press committee has resulted in the
decision that it was not desirable TO ano
Journalists to the staff of the bureau, but
that they should be associated with the
staff of cable censors.
Steps to Aid Publicity.
Steps are being taken said the pre-
mier ito carry this out and to co-ordi-
nate and harmonic so far as possible the
principles upon which the censorship of
ca bles and other press information re-
spectively is carried out. The difficulty in
defining general standards is not believed
TO be insuperable. though it is evidently
great. having regard to the size of the
staff required to deal with enormous
number of press cablegrams. which are
daily dispatched and received.
Every effort has been made and will
he made to consult the legitimate expec-
tations of the press and public. and to
harmonic with these naval and military
Considerations
The English papers have suffered re-
Gently from the lack of an organization
for press supervision in important mat
tiers. which all know have been published
by some papers. while others were for
hidden to print them. and editors are be-
ginning to make strong protests person.
ally and by editorials
Graphic Criticises Censorship.
The Daily Graphic in an editorial pro-
testing against too rigid a censorship
says:
THE dangers of the present policy of
concealment are very grave indeed be-
cause it creates throughout the country
the feeling of anxiety and suspicion.
Englishmen are not used to being treated
as children who cannot be trusted to
know the truth. When their government
so treats them they naturally suspect
the government declares.
where the enemy knows the facts and we
are not permitted to know them. The
moral factor IN war is not the least ele-
ment that goes to success and it is i'm
possible for the nation to cooperate
Fundamentally with the government If
1t is left in the dark as to what is being
done"
German Press Bureau in Rome.
ROME. August 81 via Paris, $40 pm
Germany has sent a special representa-
tive here to organize a press service, as
the lack of German war news is consid-
cred detrimental to the influence Ger
many wishes to exercise in Italy Seri-
oIs difficulty is being encountered in OBJ
tanning from Switzerland permission to
use the telephone through her territory.
This is the only line connecting Berlin
with Milan.