WAR REGULATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 78, 8 March 1916, Page 6

WAR REGULATIONS.

IMPORTANT ADDITIONS. In a Gazette Extraordinary several important regulations under the War Regulations Act are published. They are as follows; No person shall, without the written consent of a military’ authority, publish, or cause or permit t.o?4i&published, in a newspaper any statement as to the cargo laden or about to be laden on any ship which is about to leave New Zealand for the United Kingdom or any other place north of the Equator or which is in the course of its Voyage from New Zealand to the

United Kingdom or .any such p'ace as aforesaid, or any statement as to the 4 use or intended use. of any such ship for the carriage of troops or otherwise in the service of the Crown in respect of the present war. No person shall, except in the course of his lawful business in relation to any such ship or cargo as is mentioned in the last preceding regulation, send or cause to be sent out of New Zealand by means of any telegram, letter, or otherwise howsoever, any information as-to the cargo laden or about to be laden in any such ship, or as to the use oh intended use of any such ship for the carriage of troops or otherwise in the service of the Crown in respect of the present war. Clause 2 of the War Regulations of the 2nd day of February, 1915, prohibiting the’publication of information with respect to certain matters therein specified is hereby amended by inserting after paragraph (iv.) thereof the following paragraph :—(v.) The armament of any merchant ship.—No person shall publish, or cause or permit tc be published, any confidential communication received- by himself or any other person from a, military authority. Jfor the purpose of this regulation a communication shall be deemed tc be published if the whole or any pari thereof is published, or if any reference to the receipt of nature thereof b pvbdsbed. For the purpose of Mid regulation the term ''cm fldential com mr.u'cation” means an> cotmmmi "Siticr ' or statement in writing purporting tc he confidential or secret, and in an; •manner relating to the present war No person shall publish or permit tc be published, any matter or statemenj

which in any manner indicates or may he reasonably supposed to indicate the, existence therein of any omission, alteration, or addition due to censorship. Censorship means the act, direction, or rep-nest of any officer or other persoij exercising or purporting to exercise, who they in New Zealand or elsewhere, 'control over the transmission or publication of matter relative to the present war. A military authority inay by notice signed by him • and delivered or transmitted by post cr telegraph to the proprietor, publisher or printer of any newspaer nr other periodical publication, prohibit the publication of any matter or kind of ■-matt.hr relative to the present war. | After the receipt of such notice »y proprietor, publisher, o any newspaper or other pet man.. i cation, neither he nor, any othe i ; son shall'publish, or cans ,«. - he published, therein oi m on therewith any matter m breach of such prohibition.