The Nome daily nugget., 1918-03-16
(By Alfred NoyeS.)

so much used about the British cen- sorship is often very misleading one. At best 1t is merely @ technical word in this particular matter; for the ah- surdiy English facts are that, In many cases, censored mails arrive at their destination more quickly than if they had been uncensored. This is obviously so, for instance, in the case of malls taken at Falmouth from ships which intend to proceed by way of the North of Scotland for the mails thus delayed" are sent by rail across En- gland and usually catch the first boat on the other side, with a saving of five or six days on the wartime sched- ule. If there be any complaint here 1t should be lodged against the German mines not against the English censors
 Moreover, I wish that critics could only see, as I have seen with my eyes, the masses of contraband of all kinds which are posted as letter mail" from
  packages bearing letter-mail postage. but containing, in the aggregate, enough contraband to fill the "Maure- tania," come under the rejoicing hands and laughing faces of the immense army of workers in the censorship de- partment. The queerest disguises and atrangest vehicles are used. Packets leap from the toes of boots and shoes, and packages are drawn from the lin- ing of clothing. "Letter-mail," indeed, is one of the most misleading war terms in use. 1t leads many we'll meaning neutrals to believe that the Allies are brutally holing up the rose. pink correspondence of innocent maid ems and their lovers across the cruel seas, and a hundred other fairy tales, foolish fond or Satanically-c cynical, ac- cording to the temperament of their propagandist parrot. A schedule of the goods found in the Letter Mail of the good shop "Christianiafford" on the 18th May, 1916. throws an interesting light on the uses to which an innocent label may be applied.
 It mentions over twelve hundred packets of goods manufactured in Germany and addressed to German names in America. Some of these even contained mongery--springs. machine needles, knives, pincers. met al for wireless and Q hundred other moving epistolary hieroglyphs
 There was at least one German atrocity included, in the shape Of lady's dress, directed as q sheer in- suit to Fifth Avenue---from Potsdam to Washington.
 There were political books and pro- na.gandist literature. much of which was deliberately calculated to disturb tho peace between America and other countries, notably between Japan and America. Facts of this kind may be remembered when the cry ia raised that the allied censorship of German printed matter is meaningless or mare- iy cynical. l have seen specimens oi this perilous stuff that it would be sheer folly for the allies to loose upor the world.
 There were packets of "bacteria, and even in chewing gum. There wert twenty packets of jewellry--manufac tured for the gullible, in Berlin: ant there were two hundred and forty OIL packets of diamonds, valued at ove 23,300 pounds These, I regret to say were not intended as part of the "Lus itania" indemnity.
 Many of the devices employed wcr strongly suggestive of the crimlna courts. Indeed the cunning" display ed in all of a piece with other Gerrnni characteristics in the war-the initia tion of gas attacks. the fear of bein poisoned. which German officers hay displayed. and the actual use of dis ease germs in South Africa: all cum ningly suggest the criminal, rathe than the knight in shining armour Submarine and Zeppelin, too, we though we be forced to adopt them, ar the felons. not the knights errant [ modern war.
 The only genuine American lettt that has yet been really held up
 probably the one which saw display ed on the wall of the censorship mus cum; and. in any case it could hardl have reached it's destination. The at thorities regarded it, however. wit
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