The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-12-30
PUTS
MANY LIMITS ON
FRENCH PAPERS
Must Go to Press an Hour and
a Half Earlier Than Usual,
So Officials Can Pass on
Pages Before Issue.

(Associnted Press Correspoadencel
Paris, Dec. 30.-As the war ln
Europe progresses. the d%ifiicuities that
beset newspaper publishers IN France,
particularly In Paris. have greatly In
creased. Win the outbreak 81 the
war. many newspa permen went to tae
front. and their places had 20 be hlled.
Then proyisioa had to De made forl
paper. In event the city should bed
beslcEed. The various journals re-
duced their circulation 10 the fewcst
number possible, and in their desire
TO economic. cut down their pages
from six to eight sheets. and ia some
eases az low as two pages Advertis-
ing dwindlvd down To nothing. and
the proceeds from subscription and
sales were ali that remained. Sacri-
ices were made on every hand, and
curtailment practicod wherever pos
sibie. From the ediuor-in-ch iar 60
ONCE boy. salary reductions from -
TO so or even so per cent We're made,
and these were accepted without a
murmur. The entire system OF cor-
r~ospondence from the provinces was
disrupted by he call TO arms, and
consequently incoming news service
was most unsatisfactory.
But soon these u%nfavorable ooadi-
tons were overcome, ana in their
place arose the task OF competing
with a stringent censorship, To-day
the censorship in France is fully as
rigid az that IN England. In the
beginning military alone, the censor
ship has now become administrative
as well.
A double censorship exists, one in
Paris ana the other in Bordeaux. The
newspapers complain that the cens0r-
shin concerns itself with eyerytE4ng
Including many things that are none
Of is business, and also allege that
il II arbitrary and capricious. a GER
tain neWs story might receive the rat
ihcatlnn OF the censorship in Paris,
while bordeaux would condemn the
same story and vice versa. Under
these conditions the Partisan
paper editor has been at q loss To
know what he can do or what he can
expect.
Papers have To go 20 press an hour
aud = half earlier than usual. IN order
10 send three copies Of each sheet 10
the cens8r's office. They then have 10
wait until each sheet is examined and
permission t%eiephoned TO use II, or
not to use certain Indicated portions,
only after every sheet has thus pass
ed, can the paper go to press. II the
regulations OF the censorship are ig-
nored. all copies are confiscatca and
publication suspended, a very severe
punishment. Protest against these
conditions il constantly being made.
and 50 IL known ia Paris that Great
Britain has found 1t expedient 20 in-
tervene in this matter.
The French newspapers admit that
the movement Of troops obviously
should not be published for patriotic
reasons. hut they find ID most dim
cult To- understand why the glorious
deeds of their armies and tho men
composing them should not be rec
orded FOR the perusal of not only the
French plfbIlc. but for the people Of
n-belhgerent countries as well.
Christmas E,c Celebration Abandoned.
In other years an Paris at this sea-
con would oe booking its tables az
chosen restaurants for the ''reYeillon'
Of Christmas eve. This year the fetc
will be strictly religious and the Mad
eieiHe viii have no competition from
the rue Royale or the houleyards. In
the meantime restaurant life ap-
~proaches as near 10 normal as the
"moratOrium" and Gallienrs 80 o'clock
curfew viii allow
Nearly ali the famous eating r~eaorts
are open. excepting the Tour d'Argeat
so overs OF %r0ueunaise luck Will have
to walt until next year. Marguerys
Is open but IL Is not quite the same
In the absence OF the famous origi-
nator Of sole n Ia Marguery. Grips
Is well patronizeG n the old Roeuf
a Ia Mode has its faithful chenille.
Many Others suffer from the absence
of tourists and an complain OF the
nhsence OF money The bills are
smaller the tips are smaller-the por-
tions also. nearly everything dimin-
ished except the prices on The bin o.
fare. The Cafe de Paris has just re-
opened.
Wells Is aaain the rendezvous OF
dramatlc artists and Reiane mas be
seen there after a day of knitting for
the army. Wells and the Bfaserie
Universcile nave never been closed
and Pailiards was shut only during
the exodus 10 Bordeaux