OPERATIONS OF THE CENSOR
CONTROVERSY IN' AUSTRALIA. (Rec. January 13, 5.5 p.m.) Sydney, January 13. An interesting controversy has arisen between the Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald, New South Wales Minister of Pubho Health, and Senator Pearce, Federal Minister of Defoncc, respecting the operation of the censorship. Mr. Pearce challenged Mr. Fitzgerald to produce evidence of one single instance in which deletion had been made in the war news received from Britain. Mr. Fitzgerald accetped the challenge, and published expunged passages of a recent message referring solely to football matches among the Australian Forces. He said that such a censorship was particularly poisonous because it was a political censorship for party purposes. Mr. Fitzgerald added: "If Mr. Pearce wants further instances he can have them, not singly, but in battalions."—Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 94, 14 January 1918, Page 5
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130OPERATIONS OF THE CENSOR Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 94, 14 January 1918, Page 5
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