New Britain herald., 1917-05-01
wv BRITAIN CONNECTICUT. TUESDAY
CABLE CENSORSHIP
 GOES INTO EFFECT

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 Also Subject to War Regulations ARHY AND NAVY IN CHARGE Executive Order Signed By President Wilson to Prevent Inforna4aon Of Military Value Reaching Hands of German Government.
 washington, May 1.-An executive
 order signed by President Wilson, pro- viding for the censorship of cables out of the United States and of telexraoh and telephone lines into Mexico to- gether with regulations governing the same. were made public today by the committee on public information. The object of the censorship is to prevent the sending of information which might be of value to the enemy. The committee announced that arrange ments have been made to put the or- der into immediate effect.
 Conferences with heads of cable telegraph and telephone companies
 have been held in Washington during the week, and plans have been worked
 out in detail, said the statement The personnel previously selected end the generous and complete CO., operation of the various companies, combine to assure expedition and ef- dciency from the outset.
 Ina ui<~ a> dent under authority vested in him by tho constitution and the congressional resolution declaring the existence of a state of war. Enforcement of the reg ulations is delegated te the war and
 navy department.
 Text Of Regulations. The order dated April 2s is as fol- lows:
 Whereas the existence of state war between the United States and Imperial German government makes 1t
 essential to the public safety that no communication of character valu- able to the enemy or it's allies shall be had:
 Therefore, by virtue of the power vested in me under the constitution and by the joint resolution of congress Vs
 ence of a state of war 1t is ordered that all companies or other persons own-
 ing, controlling or operating tele-
 graph or telephone lines or submarine
 cables are hereby prohibited from strAnsmitting mfssages to points with out the United States and from de1ivA
 ering messages received from such
 points, except by the secretary of war
 for telegraph and telephone lines and
 by the secretary of the navy for sub
 marine cables.
 gro these departments, respectively.
 is delegated the duty of preparing and enforcing rules and regulations under these orders to accomplish the pur- pose mentioned.
 "This order shall take effect from date"
 The censorship of telegraph and
 telephone lines will affect the Mexican border only.
 The committee on public informa- ton will provide the clearing house to regulate activity of the naval and mill itary censorship to every department. The cable censorship regulations are l issued for the, guidance, of the pulp lie The text of the regulations fol- low:
 Codes-The following authorized l codes may be used conditioned on l their acceptability under the censor
 ship regulations in effect in the for eien countries concerned. The name of the code shall be written in the l check and be signalled free: " A B. C..
 both; Scotts both edition Western 1 Union (not including five letter edi- ! tion); Lieber's (not including five let
 ter edition) Bentley's complete phrase code (not including the oil and min- l ing supplements) Broomhall's imperi- al commercial code; Bromhalfs tm- perial communication code. rubber l edition; Meyers Atlantic cotton code l 39th. edition; Riverside code, 5th. edt' I ton; A. z.
 1 Addresses-Must be complete, but 1 properly registered. Addresses may be used where permitted by the censor |, ship abroad. However, code addresses l registered subsequent to December 31, 1916 may not be used in messages to
 and from Central and South America, Porto Rico. Virgin Hands, Hayti. San i Domingo, Curaco or in messages trans l mitted over the Commercial Pacific cable or via trans- pacific wireless. 1 s"Text: Cablegrams without text will not be passed.
 "Suppressions, delays. etc.-All ca. l blegrams are accepted at the sender's risk, and may be stopped. delayed or l otherwise dealt with at the discretion of the censor and without notice to l the senders. No information respect l ing the transmission. delivery or other :, disposal of any cablegram shall be ! given by paid service, and requests made by mail must be addressed to the telegraph or cable companies and fnust be passed by the censorship. Telegraphic and post acknowledge l ments of receipt (P. c. and P. c. F,
 services) are suspended in all coun-