Arizona republican., 1915-04-28
The British Censorship

The British Censorship
 the British were not better fighters than th,v are handlers of news. the would German miHtarism would be triumphant and upvasm would be without a base of oper;,- tions. Now. with probably the greatest conflict in history raging in northeastern France. event upon which the is likely the ship of the press is tightly applied than Not a word allowed be transmitted by cable Monday night beyond the harmless statement of the Associated Press that great battle was prob ably" in progress, with aIusions to events of days before and which. the the present mightier concerns. could be of interest whatever the people of Great Britain the United States
 There are more than a million British soldiers France. There are therefore. many millions of persons Britain her cclonies-wives, parents. sisters. and chiIdren-who directly intensely interested in what is happening along the Nscr. To them suspense agonizing than the final certainty dreadful may The people Britain might formed what is going without any revela- tion to the enemy of anything that the enemy does mot already know.
 The people are warranted. by the British system of handling the news, entertaining the gloomest forebodings After the battle of Nedve Chappele in which a decided British advantage gained heralded widely, and day after d1y the story of it repeated in detail and in variei form that it appeared that the victory the result of series of engagements or that many victories had crowned one engagement Only thing held back. be doed day after day, the thing in which the people were chiefly interested-the awful Of the victory. and when l at last summed an attempt was made offset the ghastlinlss of the affair the cheerful observation that the British learned that possible to break the German line if only the nation willing pay the price.
 In contrast with multiplied description of Neuve Chappclle IS this dark and strainng silence. which more suffering hundreds thousands of British homes than any other. or all other, earlier events of the
 The authorities may be awaiting a stage of the battle they able predict the result and consequences of it, but what the people wish to learn something Of the progress of it; that they may told whether the slaughter is great com IaratiyeIy insignificant that they either pre- bare themselves for the worst entertain nope safety fathers husbands, brothers and sons
 The severest criticism British censorship has been offered by the English newspapers, which are no less patriotic than the British office and would be as 10th to give publicity matters which would be of service to the enemy Said the London I)aily News lately:
 As every newspaper knows it's sorrow. the censor has the strangest of what should be suppressed: even quotations from Sir John Frenchs dispatches or from standard works. and political discussions, which by a stretch of fancy reveal military or naval secrets. have been known to fai under his ban.
 What the press does find hard to bear with tience discrimination by the between Jour nal journal. anG the extension of illustration ot both these offenses occurred this week. Mondays evening papers were allowed mention that full page appeal to the American people had appeared ia the American press but they not allowed to mention the subject os the appeal TEe next day however. a morning paper allowed to tell us that appeal against the export of the muni- tons of Doubtless of the censor's assist ants aueiIed what another tolerated, what is the state of O these gentry when any Of them can think fit to prevent the English people knowing that an agitation is in progress in America against the export of munitions of war