The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-12-04
About All That Can be Said Of This
Camp is That II 10 on Earth,
According to New
Regulations.
SOME THINGS ALLOWED
Other Bits Of information and Inter
views Are Taboo Except for
Certain Big
Officials.

Camp Dodge military authorities
at the suggestion of Major Polk. in
telIigence officer, have begun shut
ting down on, news of the Eighty
eighth division at Camp Dodge, and
since Major Folks return from Wash
ington, where he attended school
for intelligence officers and their
duties, strict censorship of news
matter of every kind from the camp
has been put in force, says the Des
Moines Register.
Officers, by a memorandum issued
yesterday, other than those specially
designated by the commanding gen.
eral, will not grant interviews en-
military, matters to representative
of the press"
Major Polk objected to the recent
publication of an order of thu civil
sion adjutant that the waste OF tood
in the camp be stopped. He has seen
menace to the army in the publica-
ton Of the fact that some Of the
troops were to be moved to south
ern camp And the news of the re-
ceipt of any kind of munitions or
supplies at this camp has been
severely frowned upon.
|
1 Whether all news of the big mill
tary camp where thousands of the
! soldiers of four states are living will
be suppressed or not is now profile
NAUTICAL. other than news that Pri-
vate Bill Smith wore his blue over
alls Yesterday instead of olive drab,
and that Private Edmund De Harti-
gan scrubbed the kitchen tables, may
/ be censored until there is nothing
left.
The memorandum just issued puts
the ban on the following news in the
| following manner with the following
rules for newspaper men:
/ press representatives will be re-
lceived at certain stated times by the
intelligence officer, who will give out
the available information. Reporters
will respect the hours of officers OF
this division.
"Under no circumstances will in
formation involving the following sub
jects be given out for publication:
"(a) Movements Of troops to or
from this division, or of individuals
to Europe.
Obj Supplies or equipment. This
includes news regarding the amount
Of materials on hand or their. re-
ceipt; e. g., rifles, artillery pieces,
blankets.
/ "(c) Contracts for military sup
plies; e. G., airship fabrics. over
coats, gas masks, etc.
| "(d) Special training in modern
methods. Degrees of training of our
| troops.
"(e) Shipping or transports or
whereabouts of aviation schools.
l. "f) Social entertainments in honor
1 Of departing officers or soldiers.
| "(g) Casualty lists that will show
organization to which soldier belong
ed; or letters from any soldier which
/ would indicate his unit"
] Censorship Is Drastic.
BY the use of this method of the
intelligence office the people who
have sent their sons, husbands or
brothers to Camp Dodge will not be
permitted to know what they are
doing, how they are getting along in
/ the army, except possibly what they
ing that will afford an inlxling of. the
progress they are making, all news of
whether they have overcoats to keep
them warm, or are waiting the COM
| ing Of other supplies, and news Of
| whether the soldiers are still in
{ Camp Dodge or have gone some
where their relatives may not know,
/ is banned
Newspapers may print the fact
that Camp Dodge is here. Much of
the real news will be suppressed.