Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-05-01
KNOCKOUT BLOW ON
FREEDOM OF PRESS
German censOp Suppress Socialist
Papers and Protests Going Up
All Over the Empire.
srADrHAeEN STATES CASE

tcorrespondenoe Of the Associated Press)
coPFNHAGEN. April z-The news
papers here have obtained copies OF the
official report Of the debate IN the Ger
man Rsiohstag on tho imperial budget,
including the text Of the speech made by
the socialist deputy. Stadthagen. which
the military censors refused 60 allow the
German newspapers to publish. The
speech deals entirely with the German
ursss censorship. stadthsgen said. in
part
From ali parts OF the country come
strong protests against the severity. the
inequality the injustice. the inetficiency
Of the censorship. The military censors
have made the whole OF the sosiahst
press a target for their malicious at
lacks. which are not intended TO preserve
military secrets. but to suppress the free
discussion Of questions In regard to which
the people Of Germany have the fullest
right 20 express their opinion.
The Voikszeitung, our local organ at
Danzig. was suppressed for saying that
there was no danger OF a famine In Ger
many. but that the price OF many necessi-
ties OF life was too high for the working
classes and imposed considerable bard
shipe on them.
AT KoeniEsberg our local daily paper
was suppressed for saying that the VIC
tories won by the German army were due
10 the fart that universal manhood sui
frago exists IN Germany and 10 the right
possessed b. German worknaen TO COM
bine IN trade unions or In political ASSOC
Citations.
Censor Reads she Proofs.
AT katto~itk our paper. the Freie
Fresse. had always appeared at 3 o'clock
IN the afternoon. bat the military censor
there insisted on seeing all proofs before
publication. and then declared that .he
had not time to read them before 3
o'clock, with the result that the puhIica-
ton OF the paper had 10 be delayed until
some hour OF the evening. sometimes
later. according to tho whim OF the au-
gust official who welded despotic sway
IN those regions.
The Vorwaerts received a warning
from the military authorities because Il
protested against wildly sensational re-
ports OF English atrocities on German
prisoners on the ground that such re-
ports stimulated public enthusiasm for
the war. and hence 10 discredi them
meant diminishing enthusiasm for the
war
When tho vorwaerts protested against
the publication Of a report that the Ger
man army had captured BcIfort and
seven French army corps gabout $4,000
men) o. one stroke. the military authori-
ties IN Reriin warned the editor that he
was doing a public disservice, ana ex-
posed his papar 20 the penalty of SUM-
presaion. The vorwaerts was not al
lowed 10 reply TO attacks made on Il BY
another Berlin paper. the Neueste Mach
richten. whsch IL a conservative organ.
although this journal had baen per-
mitted 70 libel the vorwnerts IN the
zrossest terms OF abuke.
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