Norwich bulletin., 1916-08-12
BRITISH PUBLIC NOW
 GIVEN WAR NEWS
War Department Has Abandoned Gss
 Veil Of Secrecy.

i London, Aug. 1l.-By lifting the veil ] Of secrecy to an extent hitherto un- heard of in the present war and aI-
 l lowing the British publ;n to set @ clearer view of V hat 1S going on at the front the War Office mas made a tre- mendOus popular move. This revO- lutiOn in departmental methods started with the Aug4o-trenCn offensive. It's effect on the people has been magical. The British public is now being fed ! generously on what is was deprived of for nearly two years. namely personal dOIngs of the soldiers. And they like it. Incidentally. added importance is attached to tlo new order of thinas | is not easily convinced of tho wisdom of departing from old customs Irs about the mos. revolutionary occur renee since the war began.
 To begin with the pubic realizes that there is s-tH much that must be 1 hidden from them but they are very grateful for the concessions made. The people -ea5ize further that this war must be largely an anonymOus war and that it is i0aGvisab.e to de- scribe, except after IOnG interval the deeds of particular regiments CT di- visions.
 But in other respects the veil has been lifted and the British public has 1 been permitted to read many moving stories which present the war to those ! N lIO Stti' at nome ID q tFHEH ll2lt JIlGTl l ever before.
 Generally speaking these are the sources Of information which are now available to the public. First and foremost there are the dispatches from the British chief Gen. i Sir Douglas Faig, who. as a rule. sends from the general headauarters in France, two bulletins each day sum marking in military language the gains, or losses, which the armies Un- der his command have experienced during the day and night. These are occasionally supplemented by messag- es, which, coming from the accredited war correspondents at headquarters, may be regarded as semi-of1ciaI. Reyerting to the improved arrange ments for keeping the public inform l ed on what is going on the Daily i Chronicle compliments the War Of i fee and says of the newspaper core SpOndentS: There are now five rep 1 resentatives of British neWSpap pers at | tached to the General Headquarters. 1 and Frederick Palmer of the American 1 Associated Press is privileged to join | this select band. They are housed in a l chateau somewhere behind the firing | iine-at their own expense let it be said-and from this newspaper nerve center they are free to come and go almost as they like.
 'Consonant with military exigencies i they are practically allowed a free i hand As it is obviously the duty of a newspaper correspondent to pre- serve a whole skin, this freedom is tempered by discretion, but they must 1 take many risks, and in these days of ] long range artillery they are bound to spend most of their days as well as | their nights under fire"
 l The expansion with regard to the l pictorial side of the war is not less re- markable than the develoDment of the | literary side. One supplements the other. Some remarkable photographs have come from France since the re- l cent offensive began. Many of them 1 have perhaps done as much as the written description of events to stir 1 the imagination.
 Then there is the moving picture op- orator who has his place. not only | behind the lines. but often at the 1 fighting front. Many films which even now are of absorbing interest, and which in days to come will be of his toricaI value, have been taken. Like everything else they have to pass the
 censor before they can be given to the