Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?Le Queux, William
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Britain's Deadly Peril: Are We Told the Truth?
Le Queux, William
Secret service -- Germany; Spies; World War, 1914-1918
"Landed by North The North Shields trawler
Shields fishing steamer." was mentioned by the _Star_,
("North Shields" eliminated.) _Pall Mall Gazette_, _Globe_,
_Evening Standard_.
"Bound for Blyth." This phrase appeared in the
("Blyth" eliminated.) _Star_, _Pall Mall Gazette_,
_Globe_, and _Evening Standard_.
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From the _Daily Chronicle_ A Central News telegram
Special Correspondent. from Paris ran as follows
(passed by Cable Censor):
_Paris, August 27th._ _Paris, Thursday_
The Ministry of War The following official
issued this afternoon the communiqué is issued to the Press
following note: "In the at 2.15 this afternoon: "In
region between----" (here the region between the Vosges
the Censor has cut out a and Nancy our troops continue
short passage) "our troops to progress."
continue to progress."
"Thus we were free to mention the offending passage on the
authority of the Central News Agency, but not on that of 'our own
correspondent'! What can be more ridiculous than this?"
The importance of the last portion of the _Daily Chronicle_ article
lies in the fact that we have here a clear case of mutilation of the
French _official_ despatch, which the French papers even were free to
publish!
The _Daily Chronicle_ also mentioned another case in which its special
correspondent in Paris sent a long despatch giving, on the authority of
M. Clemenceau, a statement published in Paris, that the 15th Army Corps
gave way in a moment of panic. The Censor refused permission to publish
it, but another journal published a quotation under the heading:
"French Soldiers who wavered: Officers and Men punished by Death."
I ought, in fairness, to say, in passing, that the instances quoted
above took place before Sir Stanley Buckmaster assumed control of the
Press Bureau, and that no responsibility attaches to him in respect of
any of them.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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