THE CENSORSHIP FOLLY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 101, 31 December 1914, Page 2

THE CENSORSHIP FOLLY.

AUSTRALIAN CENSORS T.VKEtf TO I TASK. SOME STRAIGHT SPEAKING. Press Association— Copyright. (Reed. 10.10 y.ri).} MELBOURNE, Doc. 30. The "Argus," in a leafier, commenting on the statement issue'.! by C'oloifcl I egge regarding the censorship, says it* Colonel Legge or Senator Pearee has fault to find with any newspaper he should have the pluck tn give names. I Referring tc the Navy Office, the ! "Argus" declares S* has shown a eapajtiy for blundering ana obstructiveJ noss which only knowledge of theui'aois I could make credible. The gentlemen lin authority there seemed afraid to j their'own shadows, and gave the mes! timid and childish interpretation to 'regulations ana instructions. Events [freely discussed in Australia were not 'allowed to be published. Mercantile clerks and ethers in similar eecunaincur, were called upon to deal with newspaper work, whicn they did not in the least understand. Could it fre [believed that the Press was actually 'ordered not to publish news of the bombardment cf Scarborough not wit h- ■ standing that it was authorised by the 'crucial Press Bureau and passed by , the British censors? vVhat right had : Senator Fearce to sot up a moral censorship? Neither Senator Fearce nor Colonel Legge could pretend to know ; when news "was incorrect, and neither ccuhl know how to conduct a newspaper.