WAR REGULATIONS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 79, 9 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 to be 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 kquator, or which is in the course of its Voyage from New Zealand to the United Kingdom or any such place as aforesaid, or any statement as to the 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 uso”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. -; 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 to 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 lie deemed to be published if the whole or any part thereof is published, or if any reference to the receipt of nature thereof *.> pibdsbed. For the purpose of tins regulation the term “c.'-fidehtial commiiU’cation” means communi aUen or statement in writing purporting to be confidential or secret, and' in any manner relating to the present wait No person shall publish or permit to be published, any matter or statement which in any manner indicates or may be reasonably supposed to indicate the existence therein of any omission, alteration, or addition due to censorship. Censorship means the act. direction, or request of any officer or other person exercising or purporting to exercise. whether in New Zealand nr elsewhere, control over the transmission or publication of matter relative to the present war. A" military authority may by notice signed by him and delivered or transmitted by post or telegraph to the proprietor, publish- 1 er, or printer of'any newspaer or other periodical publication, prohibit the publication of any matter or Kind of matter relative to the present war. After the receipt of such notice by the proprietor, publisher, nr pr nter of any newspaper or other periodical publication, neither bo nor anv otboi pex- . son -shall publish.- or cans- -or permit to be published, therein or in cornier turn ' therewith any*matter in breach of sue i '■prohibition.