Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-18
HOW THE BRITISH CENSORSHIP WORKS
 WITH WAR NEWS
Few Stories Suppressed or Delayed, A. P. Cores
 pondent Told.

London, May 15.--lCorrespondence of The Associated Press)-With the war not far from completion of it's second year, the American newspaper correspondents in London have be- come so accustomed to working under the handicaps of censorship that there is now comparatively little friction between the men who would send the news and those who would stop it. Although there are occas- ional stoppages that are past under standing, correspondents generally which they can disseminate news from belligerent country and the censors have at the same time gen eIally become more resanable.
 in an interview with Sir Edward T. Cook who with Sir Frank A. Swet- tenh8rn, directs the press bureau, a correspondent of E The Associated Press has been given an exposition of ,hh principles under which the handling of news both for the foreign and British papers, is administered under war conditions.
 Sir Edward is best known in Journalism as the former editor Of the Daily News, and since his retire ment from tha, position he has de- voted himself to literary labors. He has edited John Ruskin's works and was Ruskins biOgrapher making many important contributions to English literature. and since the war began he has published a life of De- lane, the famous editor Of the Times.
 In beginning his exposition, Sir Edward told the correspondent that the press bureau never censors arti- cies O." telegrams criticizing the censorship He urged the eorrespon- dent not to speak "too much good of the censorship.
 Afraid of Praise.
 "I don't suppose you are likely to do so," he said, "but # would really ke a terrible blow if you did. The enterprising newspaper or news agerey and an efficient censorship are natural enemies, and if the day should ever come when the news papers, British and neutral, con spired to praise the press bureau, it would be a catastrophe for one or other of us; it would mean either that the journalists had lost their 'go' or that our censors here had been neglecting their duty.'
 Sir Edward declared that the only "boouet" thus far laid at the feet Of the censors came unintentionaliy from Count 'von Bernstorff, Ger many's ambassador to the United States, when t9 the ambassador described the British bureau as one which "in ite efficiency and imagl- native powers has never had its equal in the history of the world
 That" declared Si" Edward, "ls probably higher praise than we de- serve, but I think it is pretty good evidence that we have prevented some things which the enemy would have liked and done other things which he has disliked. That is real compliment, for the press bureau is a war department"
 Sir Edward pointed to the British government notification upon the outbreak of the war that the tele- graphic and radio services through out the empire would be suspended, and he emphasized the phrase con tained in this notification, that the government would under certain con ditions permit the transmisslon oi some messages "as an act of grace"
 Few Messages Suppressed.
 'fI sometimes wonder" he went on, whether it is realized that instead