CENSORSHIP OF CABLE MESSAGES.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15037, 4 August 1914, Page 10

CENSORSHIP OF CABLE MESSAGES.

NO CODE LANGUAGE TO BE ACCEPTED. The Telegraph Department advisee :-— ; "The Pacific Cable Board notifies , that a strict censorship haß been established in London. No messages for Great Britain in code or cypher language or containing ooae or cypher words are to be accepted, British Government -messages excepted. Telegraph communication to Germany, Austria, and beyond for messages having transit tSirough these countries is suspended by, all routes from France or through France. International • private telegrams to France or to other countries via Franco must be in one solo language —German, Englisbr, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Latin —and must offer a clear meaning to the telegraph service. ' Official internaiional Government messages may be in secret language. Messages for Suva must be in plain language (English)." Later advice from tho Telegraph Department states that all cable messages inwards or outwards must bo written in plain language,-(Eng-lish or French). No such telegrams containing . code or cypher words are to be accepted except British Government or Admiralty messages. " ■ . *