BANNED PUBLICATIONS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 6 December 1915, Page 7

BANNED PUBLICATIONS.

The sale within New Zealand of certain publications dealing with the world’s navies is prohibited by a regulation gazetted on Wednesday under the War Regulations Act, 1914. The volumes which have been placed under the ban are: “Fleets of the World” (published by Eveleigh Nash), “The Naval Pocket-Book” (upblished by Thacker and Co.), and “Fighting Ships,” “The World’s Warships,” '“'Warships at a Glance, ” and “The Naval Regulation Book, edited by Mr. F. T. Jane, and published by Sampson, Low, Mansion, a:.. Co. All the books are published in London. The regulation is understood to have iroginated with the Imperial Government, but the curious thing about it is that the volumes wore published in London with the consent of the Admiralty. They contain none of the detailed information regarding British ships that used to be issued broadcast by all the naval publications prior to the outbreak of the war, and it is difficult for a layman to see what harm their general circulation could do. Not one of the volumes mentioned in the schedule of the regulation contains any information that is not already on record m every Admiralty office in the world—to say nothing of most of the news paper offivcS and the libraries of private people who happen to take an interest in naval matters.