CO129-435 - Governor Sir May & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1916 [9-11] — Page 480

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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.

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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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