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B260/1914.
Enclosure 9.
Goverment House,
Kongkong,
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19th. Eeptember, 1918.
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I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of
Your Excellancy's letter of the 11th. instant in which you
draw attention to a paragraph in the south chins Morring Post
of the 9th. instant oozoerning the movements of the Russian
Ken-of-Far "Poreavist" and to transmit for your information
the enclosed copy of à a letter from the Editor of the rowspaper
in which he explains the transgression of regulations.
Editor has again been verred.
The
Thile I da nest arzious to enforce the regulations
for the censorship of the Press in this Colony, I desire to
emphasize the fact that it is obviously futile to enforos them
in respect of vessels whose novamente are evidently allowed to
bloome known to the Press in Japan and to be copied into e
journal like the New York Berald which has a world wide
cirgulation.
The regulations for the censorship of the Pre
in this dolong have not, as Your Excellency is awere, the
resorted sanotion of law. It is doubtful if legislation were restored
to it could to givên so wide a woops sa to render penal in any
useful degree the publication of information such as that
complained of in Your Exosllsroy's letter under acknowledgment.
In this commotion I am to point out that the operative section
of the Ordinance (To. XXIV of 1914) for securing the control
of t Press in the Straits ættlements reads so follows:-
"No information shall be published with reference
to troops, ships of war, aircraft, or var matèrial, or
to the plans of the Naval or Military Authorities of any
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