(3) The principal mission of the censorship consists in suppressing all that displeases it and all that it regards as compromising. Thus, for two months _L'Ami de l'Ordre_ did not publish a single communiqué from the armies of the Allies, although it pretended the contrary in its issue of the 7th October. It was only on the 26th that it began to publish them; but it then borrowed them from the German papers, which was not perhaps a guarantee of exactitude. At the same time _Le Bruxellois_ stated that there were scarcely any French communiqués. As for _Le Bien Public_, it was suspended during the whole of May 1915, because the censorship would no longer allow it to publish the communiqués of the Allies. The censorship had promised the journals whose publication it permitted (or demanded) that it would not mutilate articles, but would suppress them entirely (_Le Bien Public_, 1st November, 1914). Of course, it did not keep its engagements; for what engagement did our enemies ever keep? To realize how the censorship mutilates, curtails, and falsifies one has only to compare the official telegrams contained in the French newspapers with those which are vouchsafed us by the expurgated journals. Here are a few examples; it will be seen that the censorship suppresses not only sentences and parts of sentences, but single words, and even parts of words. We will confess that this last procedure was totally unexpected, even on the part of Germany, although her scholars have certainly acquired a habit of splitting hairs. The words in italics are those suppressed by the censorship:-- _La Belgique_, Tuesday, 26th January, 1913,--PETROGRAD, _23rd January_. (Official telegram from the Great General Staff).... German attempts to pass to the offensive in various places have been _easily_ defeated _by our artillery_.... On the 21st January enemy troops, in strength about a division of infantry, and supported by artillery, attacked our front in the Kirlibaba region, _but they were repulsed_. Up to the morning of the 21st January our troops had maintained themselves in their positions. _We have made 200 prisoners._