Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-04-25
GERMAN DEPUTY ON
PRESS CENSORSHIP
Speech Made in Reichstag
by Socialist Finally Gets
BY Blue Pencil.


'Oo'''Sp po"'e"'e o' the A'''''"'ei lFeSS'
tOPENllAGEN, April "a. - The
newspapers here have obtained copies
OF the official report Of the debate in
the German Rtichstag on the lmperial
Budget, luO ludlng the text of the
speech made by the Socialist deputy
SladlhaEcn, which the military cen
Sors refused TO allow the German
newspapers to publish The speech
deals entirely with the German press
censorship.
Stadthagen said in part:
'From all parts Of the country come
strong protests against the severity,
the inequality, the injustice, the in
efficiency of the censorship. The mill
lary ceusOrS have made the whole Of
the socialist press target for their
malicious attacks, which are not in
tended TO preserve military secrets,
but To suppress the free discussion Of
lu'S'l'u9 III I'EaIu 10 NHlrn lhe pe'
pIe ol "'iWahN nave the fullest right
10 cypress lh'ir opinloh' me Nol-
hS"'''uuE, our local organ az Danzls'
was suppressed Tor saying that lnore
was III" uahEer OF lahlhe IN Ter
many. put tnat lhe price OF many
h''ISSaIleS OF IIe was 700 hlEh Tor the
W. KING CIaSSeS ana imposed consider
3ple hardShlpS on them. At konigs-
oers our IocaI dally paper was sup
pl.SSSu ior SAVING 'uat the victories
WIN ny tne IcrIhah army were que 10
Ihe IacJ that UNIVERSAL MANHOOD sur
iraSe exists IN GermahN ana 10 the
liSHt possesSeu ny German workmen
10 Coihplhe IN trade unions or in poht-
Ical associations.
Al hattowitH our paper the Ireie
rrySSe' hau aIWayS appeared at 3
o CLOCK IN the afternoon but the mill
tarS censor theTe insisted on seeing all
the proofs before puDllcauon, and then
declared that ne had no Tune to read
mem before O'Clock, with the result
mat the publication of the paper had
TO be delayed uhtll some hours of the
evening sometimes later' according to
lhe Wuihl or the august olIlclal VINO
welded deSpotlc away in those
regions.
Newspapers warned.
The Norwaerts receivcu warning
from the military authorities because
1t protested against wildly sensational
reports of English atrocities on Ger
man prisoners on the ground that such
reports stimulated public enthusiasm
for the war, and hence to discredit
them meant diminishing enthusiasm
for the war When the Norwaerts pro
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port that the German army had cap
tured Beliort and seven French army
corps (about 100000 mcn) at one
stroke, the military authorities in
Berlin warned the editor that he was
doing a public dlsscNice, and exposed
his paper to the penalty of suppress
sion. The NorWaerts was not allowed
TO reply to attacks made on 1t by an
other Berlin paper the Ncucstc
Nachrichten, which is Conservative
organ, although this journal had been
permitted to libel the Norwaerts in the
grossest terms of abuse.
ION another occasion the NOrWaerts
was not allowed to publish a speech
made in the Berlin town council by
Herr Wurum. in which the authorities
were urged to prevent the prices of
necessary commodities Of everyday
life from being raised above a certain
level The publication OF the Vorwaerts
was temporarily suspended for de-
claring that the hostility existing I'm
other countries against Germany was