New Zealand

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 5

New Zealand

movements of transports. STRICTEST SECRECY NECESSARY [Pie pBBBi Association.] Dunedin, January 14. Speaking to a Daily Times reporter to-day, Hon. James Allen, Minister of Defence, said it was absolutely essential that newspapers apd all persons should make no comment or reference whatever upon the transports engaged for future reinforcements, wherever they are, or wherever they may go. Mr Allen added: “I want everyone to understand this is done purely as a matter of safety in the transport of troops. I rely upon every newspaper and every person to carry out this advice to the very best of their ability. T have good reason to believe that an important element in the safe passage of the first transports was the secrecy observed about their movements, and with respect to subsequent transports we may take every precaution we possibly car to secure their safety. It is possible that some newspapers have fallen into rather | slack methods in carrying out the iformer instructions, but I now ask that the instructions already put before our newspapers in the matter of secrecy shall be rigidly observed in the future. 5 ’ /