The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1914. NEWS CENSORSHIP.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 63, 10 November 1914, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1914. NEWS CENSORSHIP.

Jhe" -unnecessarily irksome restrictions 'which'- f new.H is ■•'at present imposing -witii regard to- 1 what is 'hap. penin'g'at.'the seat dfi waiy is haying the 'irritation a'u'V qtiite unnecessary suspense Which tne .Empire is-kept waiting. A cabfe message of to-ria,y flatly states that the fallirig-off in recruiting is attributable to the "curt, cold, official news," and that i"they can give news and get men, or suppress news and do without men." What sort of rules the censorship is based on it would be hard to say. The truth, whether of victory •or reverse, is all the British people want, and if there should, unhappily, come reverses such would but stir up our. manhood to come forward in greater numbers. To let her own people know what has'.really happened cannot assist the enemy very much, particularly as with the marvellous spy system which German treachery has established so completely, the enemy probably knows all about everything that . matters quite as' soon as the official heads are informed. It must, however, occur to many people that if sending news broadcast may assist or hearten up the enemy or the friends of the enemy, then such • an item as that referring to the falling-off in recruiting ought to have been rigorously repressed. Also such folly as that mouthed by Bernard Shaw, poser and. notoriety-seeker, should be thrown out, or at least confined to the Lon. don paper which prints it: What does anyone care about the "open letter" of Bernard Shaw, or any other egotistical fool, who so far loses his sense of proportion as to petition President Wilson to invite the neutral powers to a conference for the purpose of "requesting Great Britain, France, and Germany to withdraw from innocent Belgium, and fight in their own territory." Really if \vc must have a censor let him do his work decently and suppress Shaw and any other such ill-balanced mountebank.' |