Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-11-01
INTERNATIONAL
NEWS SERVICES
PUT UNDER BAN
British Papers Say War News
is Manufactured in States {
and Badly CARRIED
[By Associated Prsssa

newspapers publish in conspicuous
places the official order denying 10
the International News Service fur
Their use of the official press burpau
and the use OF cables and all. other
facilities for transmission OF news be-
cause of its 'garbling of messages
and breach Of faith" The order APP
pears under such headings as mo
British news for Hearst, news made
in America" and american agency s
garbling of messages The Daily Ex-
press says by way of comment
THE Daily Express repeatedly has
called attention to: antiBritish lies
printed in American newspapers con-
trolled by William r. Hearst-the
New York american, the Chicago Elk
aminer and similar Journals. This
news is supplied by the international
News Service, which is entirely a
Hearst organization. These papers
VIII not have a line of Hearst's news
today This action follows repeated
breaches of faith by the Hearst :or-
ganization. One of the slatest in
stances was message in the Chicago
Examiner, headed, London !. in
Flames, ana pdfporting to describe a
Zeppelin raid. 1t was never sent
from London O.
in an extended editorial, the Times
says 81.
The e:Ssiiseiplinafy measure taken
AGAINST sfhe International News Ser
vice il = satisfactory sign that the
government appreciates the import
anee ~ dealing drastically with lying
news agencies. The tone of Mr..
Hearst's newspapers is strongly anti
British. but the action of. the govern
1nent has not been inspired by any
resentment at their opinion 1t is in
consequence ofadefberate Justification
of intelligence, of which the Interna-
tianal News Service has been repeat
eS1ly found guiltg@
"Whila NE rG.ioiee that .our govern
iient has inflicted prefer punishment
UPON an snscr6f 1lous news agency,
we trust t6at the measures taken will
not be- regarde by the people Of this
countl as Involving 1 sluc upon the
character and : C.nsCieItiousness al the
Bnites States IweSs as 4 vdlole. The
reputation of tile great majority of
Ameficen Journals for tairness and
noassty stands above. teproach and
it ltas agate anU again lpen indicated
Hurting the, war. We imagine, indeed,
that the American press ard public
will be grateful to the Pritisi: autt2ri-
ties for having pun shea wrongGt4rs
and especially Tor having made public
the grounds for the action taken. The
dissemination Of accurate news is at
all timas Edatter of high importan ce
We trust our authorii es will extend
their laudable energy in other direc-
tions also and visit with similar pun
ishment any other news agencies or
journals which may be convicted of
publishing garbled intelligence from
this country"
The Chronicle says:
The government has taken we'll
justified step in depriyins the Inter
national News Service of all telegra-
phic and mail facilities The reason
rs not thar, Mr.. Hearst's papers are
pro-Germant bnt that they have re-
peatedly published as coming from
this country news which did not in
fact come from It.
These sham messages have been
printed as messages from London. 1t
is obvious that II such abuse were toll
Grated the censorship would become
OF less than TO Value; since the
American public would be given the
impression that our censor. had passed
statements which in fact had never
been seen"
The Westminster Gazette says the.
government "acted rightly in refus-
ing further facilities for transmission
of news from this country to the In
News Service, and after
recounting the charges against the
agency, concludes:
Readers of Hearst papers will
know In. the future that kilograms
to come from England have
no origin there We>are heartily glad
the government has inflicted proper
punishment for a very Inscriptions
piece of work. :"
The Globe says the action of the
home secretary will be applauded by
all honest people"
Inasmuch as the New York Ameri-
can, the San Francisco Examiner and
the Los Angeles Examiner are Asso-
ciated Press Members, the statement
that the Hearst papers will not have
a line of English news does not apply
TO these three papers
.