ILL-ADVERTISED AMONGST AMERICANS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2725, 21 March 1916, Page 5

ILL-ADVERTISED AMONGST AMERICANS

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright (''Times" and Sydney "Sun" Servicos.)

London, March 19. The "Times" correspondent at Wash, ington says: "Ono of the Commonplaces of the war here is the British publicity regarding work bungled. But this is due to London, not Washington. _ It was through the unimaginative stupidity of the censorship, and the inability of our statesmen and military authorities to understand how news should be dished up to the American public, that the Germans would havo stolen a really useful, march had tfyey not been hindered by the clumsiness of Bernstorff's satellites. If we want tho full value of American interest and sympathy during the next vital months, the first thing we should do is to" give American correspondents at the front the fullest opportunity for prompt, picturesquo writing, and their colleagues in London better material for explanation of our position _ with _ regard to the various controversies with tho United States, instead of ponderous official statements or stereotyped interviews given by officials to a score of people at tho same time. Any competent American journalist could toll Downing Street how the thing should be done."