Arizona republican., 1915-06-08
BRITISH POLICY OF
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says the memorandum. consisted
 until day or two ago of the di- rector. Sir Stanley Huckmaster two assistant directors. Sir Frank SWet- tcnham and Sir Edward Cook. 8 sec 1etary and about rift. censors ] The criticism has been made, and the belief still persists, that the press censors are responsible not only for withholding from publica- tion news which has come to the press from other than official sour ces, but also for emitting from the official announcements information which the press thinks the public should be given. Apart from one or | two instances where the bureau has censored official announcements. the criticism is unsOund. The govern ment departments alone are respon sible for the scope and form of the communications they make public | and for the rules and directions guiding the press bureau"
 l The memorandum describes the censorship as one of several in struments all designed with the three-fold object of preventing in formation of military value from reaching the enemy. of acquiring similar information for our own pur- poses. and of checking the dissem- ] ination of information likely to be of use to the enemy or prejudicial ! to the allies. So far as is consistent with the attainment of the above ob- jects, there is as little interference as possible with the transmission of correspondence or the publication of news. and every endeavor is made to safeguard the legitimate interests, private and commercial, of British subjects and neutrals.
 'In the course of the present war It has become apparent that in the censorship there lay ready to hand weapon, the full value of which was perhaps not anticipated prior to the war, and which can be used to restrict commercial and financial transactions intended for the benefit of enemy governments or persons re siding in enemy countries.'
 The chief cable censor, it is ex- plained. is a senior officer of the general staff at the war office. He controls some 120 cable and wireless stations in various parts of the British Empire. From 30.000 to 5O,OOO telegrams pass through the
 
 the United Kingdom every 24 hours," says the memorandum. "The num- Der of censOrs employed in the cen sorship of commercial cables is lS0 in England, and elsewhere in the empire. about 400 In the United Kingdom they are. with few excep- tions retired naval and military of ficers.
 The objects of the postal censor ship are similar to those of the cable censorship. All mails which have to be censored are necessarily subjected to some delay but harm less letters, whether private or com mercial are not stopped. even when coming from an enemy country or addressed to an enemy person. No letter, however, addressed to an en- emy country can be transmitted un- less its envelope is left open and is enclosed in a cover addressed to a neutral country Letters in which any kind of code or secret writing is used are liable to be stopped even if the message appears to be harmless and totally unconnected with the war. In the private branch more than a ton of mail matter is cen sored every week. exclusive Of parcels. Commercial cOrrespOn- dence with certain foreign coun- tries is dealt with in the trade branch and amounts to nearly four tons a week. The staff of censors required for the supervision of pos tai correspondence is about goo