Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-28
ENDEAvORS ID APPLY GAG RULE
 ID SOCIALIST PRESS
Complaints Made by Leading Party Organs Against the Measures Taken to Elm barrass Their Work.

COPENHAGEN, April 27 The . newspapers here have obtained copies of the official report of the debate in . the German Reichstag on the Imperial Rudget, including the text of the speech made by the Socialist deputy, stodthagen. which the military cen sore refused to allow the German newspapers to publish The speech deals entirely with the German press ccreorsbp.
 Stadthgeen said in part:
 Prom all parts of the country come protests against the severity, the in- equality, the injustice, the inemciency of the censorship. The military cen sors have made the whole of the So- cialst press a target for the malicious attacks. which are not intended to preserve military secrets, but Go sup. press the free discussion of questions in regard to which the people of Ger many have the fullest right to express their opinion The Volkszeitung, our local organ at Danzing was sppdessed for saying that there was no danger of a famine i'm Germany, but that the price of many necessities of life was too high for the working classes and imposed considerable hardships on them At Konigsberg our local daily paper was suppressed for saying that the victories won by the German army were due to the fact that universal manhood suffrage exists in Germany and to right possessed by German workmen to combine in trade unions or in political associations.
 "At Kattowitz our paper, the treie Presse, had always appeared at three o'clock in the afternoon, but the mili- tary censor there insisted on seeing an the proofs before publication, and then declared that he had no time to read them before three o'clock, with the result that the publication of the paper had Go be delayed until some hour of the eve1iuE .3meumes late- according to the Hhim 0f ,hc august official who wielded despotic away in those regions.
 The NOrWaerts received 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 When the Norwaerts protested against the publication of a report that the German army had captured Belfort and seven French army corps (about 35O.OO0 meD) at one stroke, the military authorities in Berlin warned the editor that he was doing a public disservice, and exposed his paper to the penalty of suppress sion The Vorwaerts was not allowed to reply to attacks made on it by an~ other Berlin paper, the Neueste Ma chrichten. which is a conservative organ. although this journal had been permitted to libel the Vorwaerts in the grossest terms of abuse
 "On another occasion the Vorwaerts 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 certain level The publication of the Nor- waerts was temporarily suspended for declaring that the hostility existing mother countries against Germany was due to the fact that the German method of government is based on au- tocracy and militarism which together had produced many undesirable feat ures.
 "We were even forbidden to reprint an attack on the English censors pub lished by the London weekly paper Truth. The Vorwaerts was forbidden to publish an article saying that the destruction of the despotism of the Czar would be a blessing to the Rus sian people; doubtless our astute cen-
 sors thought this was an indirect hit at the German emperor The Nor-
 waerts was not allowed to publish a
 speech made by the English member
 of parliment Ramsey Macdonald in
 which Macdonald spoke against the
 war and other anti-war utterances
 made in England were likewise sup pressed. Why?
 These are only a few cases select.
 ed from many of which we know, but
 they suffice 10 show that the censor
 ship Is badly administered inefficient | ly conducted and uniustly balanced SO that energatic measures should be
 taken by the supreme authorities tc
 remedy what is really a grave danger @-to the welfare of the German nation