Bisbee daily review., 1914-08-29
WESTERN UNION IS
 TELLING PATRONS
 CABLE CONDITIONS
Issues Statement Telling What Can Be Sent and What Coun-
 tries Can Be Served By Way of the Trans Oceanic Cables


 The Western Union Telegraph and Cable company have issued recently statement of what they will handle on their transatlantic and trans.Pa- Ciiic and other underwater lines. The notice is issued m the form of poster It gives rates for foreign messages. languages which may be used. countries with which connec- tious can be made. places where code messages will be accepted and where they will be delivered. The rules are strict because of the many cen sorships which the cables must un- derpo.
 Following is the statement m part interesting because it shows what the news service must contend with, as we'll as what the ordinary code and letter foreign service must pass through.
 Code and other messages to Cuba, Por,o Rico, Hayti. San Domingo (via all-cable route), Central and South America( (eXcept British Honduras, Brazil and British Guiana). and to Honolulu, the Philippines. Japan and China (eXcept Hong Kong and points reached through Hong Kong), may be accepted as usual Code messages for Brazil for all-cable transmission must be routed via "Baires and West ern" at temporary rate of 70 cents per word more than the rate to Bue- nos Aires
 Messages to all other countries or places must be written in plain Eng. fish or French language. except to Switzerland and Turkey. when plain French language only can be used. For the present there is no telegraph. ic connection for Germany. Austria or Hungary and messages for those countries cannot be accepted.
 Full addresses must be given and every message must be signed with the full name of the sender. Mess. ages to well-known persons. firms or institutions will be accepted without street and number in the address at the risk of the sender These re quirements. which serve to augment the length of messages and increase the cost to the public, are imposed by the British military authorities. who have placed censors in all cable sta tioHs in English territory to see that no messages are passed that do not conform to these requirements.
 All messages within the affected territory are subject to censorshir and are necessarily accepted at send CTS risk, as censors now withhold all information in reference to messages suppressed.
 The censors will not pass servic, messages making inquiry in referenc, Co the disposition or delivery of mes sages nor will they pass service mes sages calling for the repetition of cer tain words. Mistakes, whether oc curing in transmission or otherwise therefore can be corrected or infor nation as 10 the delivery of messa ges developed only by the exchang, Of paid messages directly betweel senders and addressees.
 Nol"lIhaJduulhe that, owing tO thl abnormal situation abroad. all cabl routes are more or less congested. ", are able with our eight trans-Atlanti cables to dispose of our traffic witt reasonable promptness, delays incl dent to censorship expected. Beyon, London the service is slow but fairl, reliable except to Germany. Austri and Hungary, and the situation doubt less will continue to improve. espec laily Co European and other couptrie which can be reached by cable route out of London
 Through every available cbanne we are endeavoring to secure furtbe notifications of the existing restrict ions, and while code language in ca Diagrams will undoubtedly ba bsrre