The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. FOOLISH CENSORSHIP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1914. FOOLISH CENSORSHIP.

A long, belated, recapitulation of happenings at the front reaches us today as an “official” message." It contains absolutely nothing new, and is almost a word-for-word copy of the Press Bureau messages ue have received and published from day to day during the past fortnight. The

statement does not even confirm or amplify previous messages: it is merely a vain repetition. We have refrained from hastily condemning the foolish censorship which has been placed upon the messages sent to -tliis Dominion, because the time was one of great stress at the beginning of hostilities, but matters have now settled down considerably, and the British Government could surely find time to ascertain whose incompetence is responsible for the anxious and unnecessary waiting for news we are compelled to undergo, if the New Zealand Government made a sufficiently vigorous protest. The London Times has vofeed the matter, and we hope its denunciation of such folloy as we have had to put up with, may open Somebody’s eyes to what is happening. The ridiculous part of the holding back of the truth—which truth, by the way, has always been to the honor and credit of British arms, and in many cases highly satisfactory, particularly as regards the wonderful succession of victories on the part of Britain’s great ally Russia—has allowed German fables, as false and foolish as the Tin Napoleon of Potsdam himself, to be circulated—and even swallowed—by gullible Americans and others equally ready to believe ( anything to the detriment of the Allies. In any case what the people of these Dominions want is the truth; they are not built on German lines, and if there are reverses oven, let us know the worst, but let us know it quickly. We are well assured with which side the ultimate victory must lie, for of that there can never be one moment’s doubt, but . in the meantime while the waves of battle ebb and flow, with loss or gain, advantage or reverse, as they musi do in the Titanic struggle now entered upon for the freedom of Europe, the Empire lias a right to demand to know what is happening and to know quickly.