CENSORS AT WORK

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 5, 1 October 1917, Page 7

CENSORS AT WORK

SECRET INKS & CIPHERS IJ3AD TO IMPORTANT CLUES. Sir Frank s Swettenham, who, with Sir Edward Cook, is co-director of ths Press Bureau, in an interview accorded to Jlr. Edward Marshall, the American publicist paid'a tribute to the Press generally for the manner in which it has co-operated with the bureau. Referring to the work of postal censorship, Sir Frank said: "It is far 1 more picturesquo than the work wo d<> in the Press Bureau. Experts in chemistry and . languages, in tricks of writing, anil many other dubious subterfuges have worked out remarkable mysteries of secret inks, obscure dialects, and ciphers, and have been the detectives who have found the clues leading to many pretty contests between enemy wits aild oure. Wei believe that ours usually have won. The - British letter cen6orsnip is one-of the most efficient institutions in the world to-day. "About fifty censors are employed regularly," said Sir Prank, ' and one difficulty that can never be got over, is; that' different men at different times of day and night, dealing with more or less similar questions, cannot be expected to treat them identically." 1