The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1914-11-12
THE CENSORSHIP ABROAD
From the New York Evening
Post)

POSt)
That the British censorship
CT the war news has reflected
credit neither upon the intelli-
gence of the officials nor upon
their reputation for fair play is
daily becoming more and more
evident. 1t has plainly been
controlled chiefly by desire to
conceal from the rest of the
world the extent of any German
successes, to blacken the enc
my's character as much as pos
sible, and generally to win the
air Of public opinion in the Uni
ted States by fair means or foul
if need be. This is strong Ian
guage but it is justified. The
censorship may not be response
BILE for the deliberate falsifica-
ton of the official German dis
patch of September II which
we printed in our issue of Oc-
tober 10; but if it is not, that
/ merely transfers the blame to
the newspapers which printed
the dispatch, or to the news as
ISOLATION which supplied it. We
have reason to believe that the
German press is justified in as
sorting that this is not the only
case in which official dispatches
have been altered to German
disadvantage. Major Roadway, in
the London Globe, has charged
that 1--WE must learn to look up
on the manufacture of mendac-
iteis during the war as a hero
ic attempt to keep us going in
the absence of truth" Mr.. Her.
bert Corey, correspondent of
our contemporary, the New
York Globe, yesterday fatty
charged that British censors
were forging dispatches, and
states that Hilaire Belloc is pro-
testing in weekly journal that
the censorship is steadily mis-
leading the British public.
That the British reputation
for manliness and square deal
ing towards an adversary is
thus much impaired, is one of
the saddest facts about the war.
Englishmen have always been
held up to our youth as model
sportsmen; now it appears that
when they enter into great war
they strike below the belt. That
the British public itself would
never approve of this policy, we
are certain; but thus far Brit
ish protests have naturally
dwelt much less upon the dis
honorable side of the censor
ship than upon it's stupidities.
Of these there are no end. Thus
Mr.. Asquith's first recruiting
speech was not permitted to
cross the ocean save fragment
arily, on the perhaps correct,
but none the less amazing,
ground that it might hurt Great
Britain abroad. Of course, be-
ing printed in full in London, it
was in Germany in AZ hours and
in New York a week later. AS
quith's speech in Dublin an
bouncing the arrival of the In
dian troops that day Mr.. Corey
declares was permitted to be
printed in Ireland, but not in
England! Some of the official
German dispatches were sup
pressed, so that the United
States should not learn of the
successes, the censors being
sublimely ignorant Of the fact
that the same dispatches were
being received here daily by
wireless.
Again, when the Associated
Press filed the news of the
pope's note to the cardinals urg-
ing upon them prayers for peace
it was at first suppressed, and
then only a few lines permitted
The excuse for suppression was
that if the millions of Cathol-
les here and elsewhere learned
of the pope's desire for peace
it might interfer with the con-
duct Of the war! The stupid
halfpay colonel who ruled thus
is to be thanked for thus max,
ing it clear how antagonistic
mihtarjsm is to the church, but
he resembled the proverbial os.
trich. lie quite forgot that
mails from Italy reach thi,
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