New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-07

parcel, laid the Australian cruiser open to charge
of vulgar sensationaism. He replied coldly that
the account of the Sydney -Emden fight hadn't
been submitted to him it's way to England.
(My world II they ever send him to
the trenches in Flanders he WILL be annoyed,
positively annoyed, by the vulgarity OF war;
Sequel: brought in the identical cable to the
chief censor a couple of hours later, and he passed
it without demur.
OF the Cairo censors | will day write
book, when asbestos is cheaper. They spend most
of their time, so far as could ascertain, in the
alcoholic atmosphere Of the Turf Club. They
come duty at am, and their lunch hour is
roughly from 815 a. M to 1880 p. m. The clerks in
the Eastern Telegraph Office are loyal little people
and deny holly that the missing censors are at
the Turf Club They promise to find the censors
by phone, but first they give orders to q native
to bang about on an idle dot-and-dash contraption
for a minute or two lest you hear them ask
exchange for the Turf Club number
EXTRA. EXCLUSIVE STORY OF WHY THE
RED SEA is RED.
came in one night at II :25 with rush" cable
for America. The two evening censors stood chat
ting a moment watched me transcribng my mes
sage for a while, and then went out. (Can it be
that they went to the Turf Club? Yes, verify, it
can, believe me) | fdgeted around for time
The mul-colored descendants of Cheops pottering
around on night duty said the censors sat till
midnight and to be back. At
1910 quit / couldn't trust myself to 60 home to
the Continental by way of the Sharia Ell Magh-
rabi, though it was the shortest way. You see, the
Turf Club stands on the Sharia Ell Maghrabi, and
there are sometimes haf-brcks and chunks II
rock lying about in the street near by. So went
two blocks out of my way the home
Next day held parley with one of the censors
who had answered the call of the wild the pre-
vious evening. | told him had come in at IL :25
and missed him. "Well, all have our (hic!)
little human weaknesses, y know. l was only out
for five minutes Pity you didn't come back again,
as you'd have found me-" ! didn't dare trust my
tongue. / concentrated hard a mental picture
of sheep with censors' faces-this wasn't difficult
jumping, after another over fence and
dropping into the nethermost pit Of hell And,
hurriedly passing out into the open air, hailed
hack and drove around for an hour, cooling off.
At Suez (the only original gen-u-wine Ship Me
Somewhere East of found out why the Red Sea
is red. American Geographic Society, of which
am a member, kindly motel The Red Sea is red
because it is permanently blushing for the cable
censor of Suez.
The cable censor Of Suez is bad man.
brought to him a dispatch telling Of the abomi-
nable expulsion Of the Russian Jews of Jafa un-
der the direction of German officers. The women
many of them cultured people-were forced to
enter small boats in the harbor after nightfall
and there were despoed Of all their money and
rings and had their earrings torn away.
Husbands who interfered were flung overheard and
drowned with the harbor police looking and
refusing TO assist them. Children were separated
from their parents and have never seen them
again.
/ asked the censor II he would pass it. He
fused 70 express any sort Of opinion on its liza
bility to pass. Even after it had been handed in
and heavy cable tolls been paid it he would not
tell me how much, IL any, Of it had been allowed
on the wires. / told him tactfully that the cour-
tesy OF preliminary opinion had been extended
me by the chief censor at "Alex." and that In the
Eastern Telegraph Office in Cairo the
even come to window opening on to the general