The sun., 1919-06-09
SENATOR NEW
WILLBRING UP
CENS0R'S ACT
Committee Considers To-
day Hating of Treaty Ad-
dressed to "The Sum-"
SURPRISE IN STATE DEPT.
New Angle for Hitchcock In
quiry-Censorship to Be
Lifted June 90.
Special Despdtch TO The Sun.

cpec1ot Despdtch 70 IHH Sun.
WASHINGTON, June THE action
of the British censor in refusing to
pass a copy of the Peace Treaty mailed
by the London correspondent of The
Sun to New York will be brought Of
ficlally to the attention of the Foreign
Relations Committee of the Senate
when it meets tomorrow.
The refusal to permit the treaty to
reach the United States In any way,
while 1t Is being circulated freely in
the interests Of Berlin, members of
the Foreign Relations Committee to-
day said, would furnish another angle
for investigation when the Hitchcock
resolution Is taken up by the commit
tee. This resolution provides for an
Investigation of how secret copies of
the treaty reached certain men in
New York, where Senator Lodge
(Mass.) saw two of them. The fact
that a copy mailed to THE Sun In
New York from its London office was
refused by the British censor after
long deliberatlon is regarded as highly
important by members of the Senate
who are interested in investigating
the treaty leak" because of the
strong relief into which the easy ad.
mission to the country of other copies
OF the treaty is thrown.
Senator New (Ind.) Of the Foreign
Relations Committee declared to THE
SUN tonight that he personally would
bring the matter before the com.
mittee.
The publication in THE Sun of the
facts regarding the holding up Of this
mail aroused mixed feelings here to-
day. Officials of the State Depart
ment, who no longer than yesterday
stoutly maintained that there was nc
censorship in England except to guard
British commercial interests, were
amazed and at loss to explain the
incident.
New Angle Increases Wrath.
The fact that the treaty Is easily
optainable In neutral European coun
tries and also In Germany itself while
to American newspapers and the
American Senate Is denied any Dor
ton of the text of the treaty has
brought to fever heat the matter OF
the censorship over news to America
Official confirmation of the fact tha
the censorship is in full strict swim,
in England was obtained to-day from
the Post Office Department. II wa,
learned that the Department has beer
advised from abroad that this cen
sorship Is TO be lifted on June 20.
While Senators were keenly inter
ested in the report from London pub
lished in THE Sun to-day. the ma
jority of them preferred not to com.
ment upon ii for publication, becaus,
some of their colleagues who are sup.
porting the treaty and the League O
Nations OF late criticised them ant
called them 10 account for comment
ing upon newspaper reports befor,
tho slower channels of official com
munication brought the same infor
nation to the United States or Sc
much of 1t as was allowed to seel
| through the censors.
Privately. however. these same Sen
ators expressed the strongest opin
ions. They have been aware that there
has been a strict censorship. but tn,
specific example OF the fate of the
Treaty THE SUNS London correspond
ent attempted to get TO New Yorl
recalled vividly the Presidents prom
ise made to Congress a few days be
fore he absented himself from hi
| duties as Chief Executive the frs
/ time. On this occasion Mr.. Wilson
declared that "the news of the mex
few months may pass with the utmos
freedom and with the least possibl,
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