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THE CENSORSHIP,

PATHFINDING IN THE AIR THE BALKANS OUTPOST

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lung is has its faults, but there it is afternoon. The hill held by Lieutenant.

The Air is a fine pathway for travel

It was about five o'clock on a boiling ustructions bar the way. The surface?

A woman was one of the six Brisb is not uniformly good there are Smith's detachment was part of the out-on Conference at The Hague on prison official representatives at the Anglo-Ger bumps to throw you 50 feet up and post line of the Struma front. Before it ers-of-war. down, but there are no blind corners, There are no traps that a skiful pilot eng. the maize fields, fluttering in the heat, Mrs. Darley Livingstone, the ärat not clades and below, stretched out. Is the eye to where the hills rose abrupt-out to sit at a table of diplomatic this well-marked land for you to follow..

negotiation, is young, charming, and There are woods and ronds, and rail is behind which was Bulgaria. On vivacious. An Americau married to a ways of which you just never quite bepantus right front he could just see the British officer, she has been a member and sight, no satter what you are doing,

roots of deres sparking in the gamitice on the Treatment by the Enemy of hon. secretary of the Government Com- Landmarks are easy to follow when you Bend, the thin shining fine of the have learned to read them, at very costrin

British Prisoners ever since it was formed fusing when your have not. A compass is

marked the place taken part in public work of any kind

two years ago. Until then she had never Te-day she has command the vast detail of a far-reaching and highly confidential organisation, and can produce at a mo ment's notice the record of experiences of every British subject who has been

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holders of the high tradition of the up like dark lines through the snow, and pinions were wheeling in lung lazy circles, prisoner in any theatre of war.

The publication of the Report of the Mesopotamia Commission, following upou the Dardanelles disclosures, must con vince the country that it is at any rate learning all that can possibly dopress, it. On the other hand, theft is overwhelming oriilence to show that: much news of an enheartening character is still suppressed. In another colum we publish a statement by à Cape Town correspondent, instrat ing how the ceùworship works in this respect, The transport. Trudarens struck a mine off Cape Agullias in circumstances which are now familiar, The incident occurred on the night of February 9th, and immediately journalists at Cape Town collected particulars with a view are unless you have specialised in where the reeds gave way to the maize. to informing the world of one of the most its use. The ground is your guide, and glorious incidents of the war. A latta from the ground to the map you look The goes, which hunted it were tion of the Middlesex Regiment was on when you need to pick up your route.

popularly supposed to be the largest in board. The men were paraded, and, In the winter in France the marks are although it was believed that at any moeasy to follow. Ronds and rails show

High above, the vulture on motionless ment the vessel might sink, these up-

the strade of the shelling turns the Over all was the drowsy, breading humi

There is probably no cae in England Hards maintained perféct dissipline, earth up all brown, as if a giant hand of great heat. The occasions) * Kamp /* to-day who has a more extensive know- That constituted a story which it would had swept away the snow.

of a heavy shell came from the north, ledge of the actual conditions in prison- have done the people of the Empire good

in the summer it is not so clear, otherwise only the rustling of the reeds ers camps in Germany and elsewhere. to read. But no! The censorship inter, you know, your country as you know your back the heavy silence. There was no In the early days of the war, Mes, Living- vened. The narrative of this splendid hand, and the long straight roads cannot natural shade on the hill. Smith and stone used herself to do all the interview- demonstration of British grit and coolness deceive you. reached Lotion three or four days later

fixed up a small and inadequate sun ing of the sick and wounded prisvRES and was pigeon-holed. For six weeks

shelter ever a big rock, which cuss a long who were returned periodically 10-day the embargo on publication continues

sharp most blessed shadow: The shadow it is done by a large staff of voluntary The workers. But she still makes a point of At last, on the evening of March 28th.

of a great rock in a weary lnad."*

interviewing all escaped the Press Baronu issued a statement which

man who wrote that knew what he was personally

Lord prisoners of war. Her daily ofies hours it had received, presumably, from one of

talking about,” thought Smith the Government departments. It was not

it a weary land: those vultures and are from 10 to 7.30, and the nearest Ap until this official and inadequate story,

these flies "he banged his hand down on ruch to holiday she has had in taso after so long a delay, had been put in

the insects which were devuuring his knees years were her recent visit to The Hague

and two official trips to Switzerland, circulation that the unofficial telegrams

are getting on my nerves. Thank

SURPRISE FOR THE GERMANS. were relensed-too late t be of commer-

heavens, we're relieved to-morrow." H&

"Yes," she said, "people did seem sar- cial value. It was only then, moreover,

pushed back his helmet, swung round his prised to find a wanan among the British that the country was allowed to learn of

big teleser on ita rest and, for the representatives. I am sure I don't know the appropriate massage of praise which You sway and rock over towards it, hundredth time searched in turn the why because there is really nothing that the King had sent to the Cape in the pretending to be banging over a

three straggling villages which broke the wollen are not doing in England to-day middle of February, Iz may well be askelse, but trying to catch the flash again.

'telling what ed why this policy of silence was enforced. And at the same time you watch wirily ontoons sickly green of the fore is there? I had no ens Did it serve any military object? Was zainst attack cu your tail.

ground. Like all their kind they fitted the German representatives thenight it vital that information, which could be Then, in a moment, there is the fatal so deftly into their surroundings, that because, of course, we didn't talk to each Indeed, it issued m the end of Marah without dan

rattle. A watching Hub has approached though they were only three miles away, other not socially, I meat.

The Bulgars would be quite impossible to give an adin- yer to national interests, should be sup unseen out of a cloud just above, while they were almost invisible. pressed when it was fresh and would have you tried to catch that flash. He is there way more or less in possession of them. quate idea of the extreme formality ande an electric appeal to the hearts of to protect that gin.

bui Smith bod never succeeded in detect-

proceedings.

was there merely to the peuple of the Empire? Officialdom The fight swings and reels; every trick) ing a sign of life in any of them,

assist Sir in its blindness smothered a page of his comes into play, and still you must re

He was just baishing his inspection of formation which as secretary of the co

Robert Younger, our chairuan, with in- tory, and the public lan never rend those member the ground holes and watch on when a shot rang out. apparently witter I naturally have at command. It filling personal narratives which convey where you are going. Never hust the from a small clanp of trees about a mile was real hard work all the time, and both the lasting impression, and upon pilon forget the ground.

away, a little onees in the maize. Smith parties were concerned solely with tho which the historian imust rety in writing) The Hun may try to lead you into a swing his telescope quickly on to the welfare of the prisoners. Questions con- a record which will last for all time.

nest of Archies or away deep over the spot. There is something radically wrong in line into piler shares... or you may

etning them were the only ones dis He had three standing pots of the men eussed, I think the agreements con-

You know where your pet guns lie and you snatch a glance at their flashes. You know where the nests of Archie" arr. These things are your landmarks over the lines by A., and dodge like fury to fool the Archie gunners below. Round over B. railway station to count the trains and see the piles of stores: a glange it the big gun in C. wood.

Then a flash over beyond 1. patches your eye. It is new. It is a newly placed gup. The colour of the flash gives a hint of its size.

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cise the Press Bureau, of which so much you out of your radius of action and treat. Their orders were to Åre one round tory."

is heard from those who are unfamiling leave you to settle down with empty petratif the enemy were sighted, then three more with the composite organisation control-tanks far across his linea. ling war news. The Press Bureau is little

Smith's revolver. A moment later another

more than the vehicle through which off-led you over strange country, and gader were at once to retire on to the hill. The certain that someone was firing on them You see him fall, but perhaps hunxif they were in force. If pressed, they cial news is issued and a sieve through ing clouds are blotting your view, What signal for recall was four shots frem from half right, down by the gully. If which other and unofficial intelligence then is to guide you? passes. It is not, as a rule, responsible for the character of official communica compass can point: there is the estimate hat right, and then three more from buth thron ing his right wing forward ahead of There is the general direction which the shot was fired from a tiny hill & mile 50, his posts were showing sense. He soon Saw that the Bulgar commander was tions. It carries out a tuber of regula you can make of the speed and direction points, Hulle mattered Smith, "that his centre, the extreme right flankers were tions which have been drawn up by vari- of the wind.

Sounds rather like it." Then he picked already crossing the path. ous authorities from ting to time and sub-i But, more than all, there is your train-ent a group of three inen running rapidly; fran two sides was the obvious and inevit jeeted to frequent amendment. They auring and experience and that unconseious Suddenly a machine-gun tapped out, and able manouvre. He was glad to see that now so confusing as to be hardly in watching of directing that comes with ex- the three men dropped into the maier his mon were Gring steadily, He watched elligible o principle underlies them.perience

with satisfaction the slight rythmical wing of their shoulders as they took the balts. They were all right. The Bulgars recoil and the unhurried netion of the

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We de no doubt that the censors endent- You turn and bend for home. Soon the our to the best of their ability to interfamiliar landmarks will come into sights and get inte bouch with the bridge pret the composite and conflicting code the sheds can be reveled if petrol hold which is imposed upon them. if we act

to probe the trouble to its source, we fear But an inexperienced pilot over strange that we must go behind the Press Bureau. country is like a plains in a tracks The change which is need is a change forest. He wanders in eireles, though the of spirit. When the present fiovernm marks are there to guide him if he mouldi game into offer the range was given but use them. that the whole truth about the war would j be disclosed. The tendency for sume months past has been to permit depressing news to filter out and to suppress items which would encourage the nation. For instange, the nation might assuum that in

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whether hit or not be couldn't see,

Get the Helio going, sergeant,' he Tell them we look like being attack There is half a battalion there and

Tell them we want

hundred syclists.

To altnek

were now some 100 yards away and he conld see at least thirty bodies left behind. rainforcing. I'll get the others in."

All the same Smith knew that if they He picked up his revolver and five could be made to face it, they would four shots. There was a shallow half-overwhelm his little party. He turned to moun trench dug round the crest of the the Corporal. kill. Smith got his thinly men in there,

tall them to fill their magazines and keep down. Then he went back to his tele scope. He took it off the stand and lay The national value of newspapers મ war time was emphasised by Mr. Kellen, but he found it was to hears to way, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions, in a speech a Luton recently.

Referring to the suspicion entertained

You see that big devil ahend of their eratre by the whin bush, I think he's au officer, try and get him."

The Corporal took a very deliberate aim and fired. The offer dropped a Bulgar covering fire was now very bevere, and the in dry crest of the hill was whipped up and spurting like a puddle in heavy rain. Four men were hit almost. simultaneously, two through the head and two through the shoulder. The fire of the rest got a little wild. The Bulgars were quick to recognise this and came on more confidently. Just then the man who had been detailed to watch for reinforcements crawled down into the trench.

the sabourin war we are mainly on the defensive, the officers and area of the wer

rep stendy without a rest, so put it down and tonk but his glasses. He picked put chant navy being like shorn lambs going

two of his posts, they en jogtrotting to the slaughter. From time to time de pressing stories are issued from official

back and should be in in ten minutes, so Hourers of med, and sometimes women by many trade unituists that dilution that was all right. Now, here were the compelled to support life on the high ang private work would not cease at the surf

Bulgars As if in answer to his question in small boats with seanty food." Such of the war, he said that much as he --~| audden flight of what sounded like incidents may convict the Germans of ingretted the suspicion he was not altoge incredibly angry high velocity been humanity, but zles are hardly calculated ther surprised at it.

droned past bing something fit the to inspirit merchant seamen er to giri The proceedings in the douse of Com ground almost beside him, spirited up a to the population generally an adequate ions on the Dilution Bill were not fully fittle dust and hummed fiercely away conception of the splendid fight which is reported in the Press," he added, so towards the river. Then men, who bad being me up against the bacillus of the that the Government's case for the Billbren taking little trouble to keep under raviue, sir, they've stacked cycles the The cyclists have crossed Cypress The other side of the picture is was only imperfectly brought before the gner, ercuched down suddenly, all but other side and they are coming on in suppressed. If the official veto were not D

ene, who spun round quickly, coughed and open order. They're about a mile to come. I can see a lot of dust in the road between is the infantry Keep town, will you! Corporal, see the bridge and the ravine, which I think

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your sights to 600 and wait. Now Corporal, you see that path," he pointed it open Bre at once; they are certain to his left front; "if anyone tries to cross to try and get round us between there and

in fuice correspondents on the coast would **The Government have, in fell flat Smith turned on them angrily.

what supply

would respects, suffered from the limitatious describe as live stories" of the courage which the shortage of paper has place men keep their heads down. Put ous manner in which the officers and men on the space which the Press is able to of the merchant navy are noting; an in-devote to these large questions."

What happened during the next ten dividual ships need he

minutes Smith never remembered very mentioned: tes nutes of officers and men need appear: American people obtained any comprehen

of seeing the Sergeant shot through the clearly. He had a confused recollection but the nation would gain a better asion of what this country had done and

head, and then the Bulgars reached the preciation of the manner in which these seamen are maintaining the highest ship had sat on the cables, which, intel

is doing Why was that? The censor the reeds and they must be stopped.”. bottom of the hill and began to cheer. He tional traditions. They are not always!

The bullets were coming faster now, 80 remembered watching a Bosche officer victims; they hit back. Or,

gently used, should have prosed, he jumped down into the trench. As he urging them on and being knocked out again, we may turn to our armies our anonymous powerful reinforcement of the Allied did so the Sergeant came up. armies. It is only very occasionally that CAUBC. We have dwelt too much upon the the Brigade, sir; they're sending the down the man behind him. He had made "I've got by the Corporal. As he fell he knocked the veil is lifted. Sir Douglas Haig's enemy's illegalities and inhumanities: we Jast despatch, if it had not been for the have let the world know too little of evelists at once and a company of the up his mind that the worst thing he could Applicants will be required to produce

Censorship, wight have constituted an epic what we have done to punish and defeat Infantry, are coming on as quickly as do was to mask the fire of the cyclists behind him, so shouted to his remaining Passports or tioutification papers.

of British courage, resource, and endurhim. To take a very recent illustration possible."

"Right," auswered Sunith, "Hullo! twenty men to follow him, and he led SHOWS PLAINER with All persons

ance. Yesterday we were not allowed to of the censorship. What was the official certain oxceptions who THE MIREOR remain in the Colony for more than 7 days

them at the double down into the high THAN WORDS WHAT A WONDER-

know, where or when the eight Victoria attitude towards the arrival of the Ameri- there they are Crosses were won. It has only now leak can destroyers in our waters! It was A large party of men suddenly appear reeds, where they were perfectly hidden. are required to Register themselves under

ed out that when airship Z is was brought only after some delay that the intelligence ed out of the high maize, 200 yards in He watched the Bulgars reach the crest the REGISTRATION or PERSONS

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was released. ORDINANCE 1918.

down on June 17th three of the crew

We believe, however, that front, spread out in open order and ran of the hill and swarm down the other side, REALISED BY A GAIN OF

by this time the censorship has learnt forward. were taken prisoners, and are still living that its methods do not commend them meet them from their right flank, and from the eyelists, and saw them scuttle. Another party swung out to to be met with a heavy and accurate fire Forms of

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back to safety again. He led his little We strongly recommend every man an

At such moments many varied thoughts band through the reeds and joined up woman reader of this paper, who is thin, marines.

vinced that the time has come when the throng the harassed subaltern's mind, with the reinforcements. He found to his These remarks illustrate the spirit in pale, weak ar run down, or who has lot which the censorship is being worked, control exercised over the issue of news Smith was wondering what had happened intense disgust that he had a bulles. his or her begant, youthful energy Is it imagined that the Germans do not should be the subject of investigation, to his posts. They would never get in through his water-bottle. Then there was who callers From less of appetite, or from now how British merchant seamen are and the case of the Fyndurere might serve under such a fire. If they had any sense debility, vither nervous or Physical, to try standing up against piracy i

as the beginning for an inquiry. Whethey would not attempt it, but take up a pause. new, soientifically compounded preparar not want neutrals to gain that know ther the matter can be dealt by the Adsofde sart of position by the gally and arrived, and the two companies from the

They do

An hour later a suction of R.F.A. tion called Sargol.

ledge, and we are conniving at secrecy miralty, War Office, and Press Committee. The trouble with most people who appear Will it be suggested that they are consideration by the War Cabinet is remembered something very like it on very spirited little counter-attack and or whether it should be the subject of worry the Bulgars as they advanced. He bridge supported by them carried out a a bag of bones is not that the gnorant of the fire competency which is complete set of the ENCYCLOPAEDIA don't get enough to eat, but that they during exhibited by the others and men matter of detail, though we are inclined muncuvres in India. Then he must detail recaptured the hill and 14 unwounded

BRITANNICA, ninth edition, 35 not assimilate what they do eat.

Ther of our patrols? Is there any reason for to think that the subject demands the Better be Gill; ho was a third class shot. To Smith's great regret all the men from most one man to watch for reinforcements, Bulgars, 73 Bulgar corpses were buried. volumes, with special revolving stabil.

simply go through the natural motions Apply to...

conduding that they do not know where auhoritative treatment. Has not eating, but the flesh-giving part of wint practically every regiment in the British time come-is it not indeed overdue. He found himself aloofy criticising the the posts were found dead. They had they eat just passes away without being

Aemy is fighting! What would it profit when the balance might be readjusted? Bulgar attack: a shade mechanical. Bosche fought to the end. assimilated, and consequently doen not do them if they found out when and where Are we to go on raking over the ashes, officers probably, it looked like a training them any good.

V.C. was gained? It is true that the ignoring, to a large extent, the great fire stunt for a raw Bulgar battalion. That's Sargol helps digest your food and eits

cret of war is secrecy. But the circum of patriotism which has blazed up in this why they are doing it in daylight. in its assimilation. There is no need fences in which it is necessary to pre country and the glories which have come 500, rapid--but mind you aim every you to be a skinny and go around with ve secrecy after an event hus occurred to us in these days? Must the war con- shot, and don't get wild. We can stop that pinched bungry, ball-fed look any are exceptional. What has the censorship tinue to be anonymous, the impersonal anything if we keep our heads,"

rrect appreciation of the marvels which some officer has failed or sole politician s country has achieved and of the man has omitted an error of commission or subaltern wants all his faculties for com- word taken and over seventy "enemy. pin which its unhood has acquitted omission? This is a war in which the on went to the United States that the that the news from day to day shall give lf? It was not until the British Mis whole nation is engaged, and we plead

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Two days later the Balkan News re- produced the communiqué from A.HQ. It finished by saying: "On the Struma front the Bulgars captured one of our advance nosts; it was resolutely defendert by small party against greatly superjor

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and fire himself, but on such occasions the attack the same evening. Some prisoner

fire was heavy but wild. Smith was fairly before thenght Smith steadily in short rushes, their covering

"I've often rend that, sort of thing

(Continued at foot of next column.) what it's like."

and The Bulgars were advancing corners, buried,

Now I know

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