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TRANSMISSION FROM LONDON CENSORSHIP AND OTHER HANDICAPS. DISCUSSED BY EMPIRE PRESS ■ UNION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright • i <Received This Dav 12.35 p.m.» LONDON. February 11. The disadvantages under which the! Press of the Dominions suffered be-j cause messages were compulsorily cen-| sored was stressed by Major J. J.’ Astor. M.P.. at the annual meeting of the Empire Press Union. This was inevitable, he said, but he emphasised’ the need for all the official help, possible. Major Astor asked for equal treat-, ment for the 8.8. C. and the Press, cs- ’ pecially with regard to censorship. j Mr Irvine Douglas, Mantiger of the) Associated Press, London, said that i while the responsibility of the Empire I correspondents in London probably I had never been greater, the dilficul-i lies and obstacles confronting them j also had never been greater. The cen-j sorslpp might show a greater readiness, to place itself in the position of the; newspapers upon which it lays so i heavy a hand. There was evidence that , the censorship still had much to learn.; but he was bound to admit that re-i ccntly it had shown a greater tendency ■ to listen to what Dominion correspondents said. Other exasperating ditli-| cullies, including tantalising delays in j cable transmissions, were putting the Dominions many hours behind tho*( news. The British Government, from | the outbreak of war. had viewed it asj most desirable that there should bo I no hiatus in news from London. When , raids began, however there were most l serious gaps and a delay of as much as | fifteen hours in the transmission of vital stories. He referred to the unfair’ preference given to the B.B:C. by cer-j tain Government Departments, who! seemed to regard the 8.8. C. as omni- ; potent and the Press as something of secondary importance. .Another dilli-’ cully confronting some sections of the Empire Press was the exorbitant cable' charges for Press messages from i Egypt. Surely it was not. too much toj ask Egypt, which tiie Imperial Army! had saved from invasion, to reduce, its ; charges to the Empire rate level.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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347NEWS CABLEGRAMS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 6
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