The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916. NO NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 120, 22 May 1916, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

MONDAY, MAY 22, 1916. NO NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Tai hape Post and Waimarino News.)

The Italian definition of a censor is a controller of war news who carries two bags, his head in one and his senses in the other. Whether the Italians are near the mark or not it is a remarkable if not a significant coin'cidence to find coordination so persistently practised, for there has been no news of the war worth mentioning coming through for several days past. It is indeed wonderful that so many millions of armed men, with all the most diabolical machines and methods of destroying human life, should be doing nothing that is worth chronicling, or that would be of the deepest interest to peoples whose sons and brothers are supposed to be fighting. From past usage and experience we can only assume that some great movement is afoot, and as there is no news from any front, are we to assume that the great, the auspicious general offensive, so long in preparation has commenced? It really seems as though a conference of censors had been held and that a coordinated effort to let no news through •had been decided upon and had been put into practice, for neither from Britain, France, Russia or Italy is any war news reaching the outside world, and the scraps that have filtered through have come via America. Can it be that Germany, Austria, Turkey and Bulgaria have joined in the campaign of silence, for not even from those countries has any intelligence leaked out about what their millions of soldiers are doing. If there is any virtue in the old saying that ‘no news is good news,’ then, considering the huge possibilities involved, its meaning is. in the present silence, unprecedently intensified. However, we cannot be kept out of any fighting se- ; crets for long as streams of wounded, 3 if nothing dse, will quickly cause the : siain -facts-to be broadcasted;-- -