Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-21

exception, they reported TO Berlin
that Great Britain would not go to
war. Members Of this class Of spy
and only known to headquarters BY
| numbers.
They were paid a minimum o.
$4,000 and a maximum OF $4,000 a
year, and were usually engaged III
some other kind OF work-very Often
, insurance work, very often as travel
ing statesmen. Quite a number OF them
we're women. Out OF respect for Their
sex, among the spies We have shot at
the Tower OF London the women have
been exempted and sent to long terms
Of imprisonment
Further, there were the military
and the naval spies. This kind o.
spying Is regarded as legitimate
among all nations. Carl Lody, whom
saw tried by court-martial and who
had an American passport and spoke
American with the slightest German
accent, was a legitimate naval spy
and was SO regarded by our author
ties, who treated him as well as he
could be treated in the circumstances,
and finally, very properly, shot him.
He was captured owing to clumsiness
on his part. Among other floppish
nesses he kept his code in his pocket.
and therefore knew at the moment he
was arrested that he was a dead man.
One of the things that led to his de
lection was the cable censorship.
Entertained Spies
We had been warned for years
that the country was full Of German
spies, but did not believe it. Germans
were admitted to our clubs, went
about among Us and seemed very
friendly. At the outbreak of the war
We found that we had been entertain
ing several battalions OF spies. re.
member the sight that went on daY
after day In London just before the
outbreak OF the war, when they
swarmed to the German consulate to
get the passports yiseed. Many Of
them obviously had information that
q war was coming and that they might
have difficulty In getting out.
Compared with the leakage OF
news into newspapers, the daily leak.
age OF secrets by cable is as a Mia, |
CARA compared with q mountain
stream. / am q pretty close student
OF the war and have read q number |
OF your newspapers in the last month |
but on only two occasions have seen |
anything likely to- be OF assistance to |
the enemy. That does not mean that
there should not be a newspaper cen
sorship. Our newspaper people from
the outset recognized the need for OF.
ficial technical military and naval &C
ton In such matters. The danger of /
a censorship Is that It may be used to-
exalt Incompetence, to impair effici-
ency by hiding mismanagement, to
weaken resolution by exaggerated
optimism. y
AS to the censorship in general, II
instructions are. given to newspaper
people, they themselves form theI
best censors. Trained news gather
ers and presenters Of news are much
more intelligent than the kind OF man
who usually drifts into censors' O:
ices. Neither military nor naval men
care for the task Of censorship. Ther
want to be at the front or at sea.
Judging by my own colleagues in Eng
land, i believe that American news.
paper men should be very largely
trusted to do the censoring them.
selves, provided, Of course. that Gen
eral Pershing has a system such al
has been adopted by Sir Douglas
Haig, who, while allowing the utmost
freedom Of correspondents, sees that
he dispatches are read and examin /,
ID by competent members of his staff
The dangers of misuse of the power l.
u censorship are well known to those
Who know what we suffered from the
hiding Of the truth about war for the
irst two years" 90 IL