The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-05-01
RIGID CENSORSHIP
ORDERED ON ALL
CABLE MESSAGES
Telephone and. Telegraph Into
Mexico Affected.

WASHINGTON. Ma An execu-
tive order signed by President Wilson
providing Tor the censorship OF cables
out OF the United States and Of telc-
graph and telephone lines INTO Mexico
together 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 cucmy The com
mttcc announced today that arrange
mcn,s have been made 10 put the cxccu-
tive order into effect Immediately
Secretary Daniels has assigned Com
msnder d W Todd, director OF naval
communications, to have charge OF the
cable censorship and Commander Ar
thur b Holt will be IN control Of the
| New York division Brigadicr General
Mcintyre has been selected by Secretary
Baker to direct the telephone and tele-
! graph supervision on the border ! he
censorship Of telephones and telegraph,
! will affect the Mexican border only.
These cable ccuSorShips regulations
arc issued for the guidance OF the pub
lie The text Of the regulation, is as
| follows
Authorized Codes
The following authorized codes may
be used conditioned on the acccptablllty
under the censorship regulations ~ ci.
feet IN the foreign countries concerned
The name oithc code shall be written III
the check and be signaled free
a. b C.; fifth
Scots, tenthacdition
Western Union Cnot including five
letter editionJ.
Licbcr's tnot including five letter cdi-
tom
Bcntley's complete phrase code (not
including the oil and mining supple
ments)
Broomhall's imperial combwation
code.
Meyers Atlantic cotton code thirty
ninth edition
Riverside code, fifth edition.
V Address Mast Be Complete.
The address must be complete, bnl
properly registered addresses may he
used where permitted by the censorship
abroad However code addresses reg
lstcred subsequent to December 81, 1910
may not be used in messages to and
from Central and South America. Cuba
Porto Rico, Virgin Islands. Haiti. Sar
Domingo. Curacao. or IN message
a ne IN tho na
ciiic cables or via trans Pacific wire
less.
No Code Addresses.
n All cabegrams must be signed hy tn,
name of the firm or IN case an individ
ual by at lcaS, the surname. code ad
dresses as signatures are NOT permit
tied.
All code cablcgrams and oablcgram
written in the approved foreign Ian
s,.,Sr. snase. will be deeoded or translated b
l. All CablegamS are accepted at III
senders risk and may be stopped. dc
layed or otherwise dealt with at the dis
cretion OF the censors and without no
tice to the sender. No information re
spccting the tranSmiss,oN delivery o
o,he disposal OF any cablegram shall b
given by paid service and requests mad
by mail mus, be addressed to the tcle
graph or cable companies and must b
/ passed upon by the censor Telegraph
and post acknowledgements oi receip
l (P, C. and p {. =. sctviccs) are sus
pended IN all eoug,rleS
/ Sender Must Cover Cost.
l Any explanation OF word. or word
etc, required by the censor from III
sender in tho United States shall be ol
tanned by collect message from III
] censor to the sender and by paid r,
= ply from the sender OF the cablegran
\ Coded cablegrams filed directly ;
\ the cable offices where cable Gems,
is stationed, as New York, Key Yves
| Galveston and San Francisco. should
accompanied by translation. This wi
expedite the work OF the censor an
thereby greatly reduce delivery.