THE DEARTH OF NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 18, 8 September 1914, Page 5

THE DEARTH OF NEWS.

COMPLAINT BY THE TIMES.

Times and Sydney Sun SeeviMP London, September T.

The Times, in a leader on “The Press in War,” says: “If it is important that the people of England should receive a steady flood of information, it is infinitely more important that the Dominions, on whom so much depends, should promptly be told all that is permissible. The facts about the foolisli censorship over Press telegrams to the Dominions are almost incredible. We are convinced that Cabinet is unaware of them. One glaring example may be quoted. It was overwhelmingly imperative that the Dominions should be told immediately and fully why the Empire had gone to war. The censors and cable dffices held up for four days the reports of the momentous speeches by Mr Asquith and Sir Edward Grey, and they censored them before despatch.” Commenting on the general dearth of nows, the Times says that in a month the people had had only one statement of any value. They had received infinitely more from Petrograd than from the British War Office.