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Show WORK OF CE1S0R IS A SOURCE OF GRIEF French Editors Fume at Blue Pencil Activity in ' War News. RESULTS JUSTIFY IT I Officers Thus Prevent Germans Ger-mans From Getting Information In-formation of Value. Spffil c al j.- to 1 lie Tilhuiie. I'AKIS, Antf. ".-The bur.-.uj of the 1 Vcii h rfimur, or "bureau de la prrf-- ' ' as it pn fern lo b know n, in familiarly e ailed ' ' A nant ,-ie, ' ' a( tcr a dref-makr-r vho wjih th iieroin of a I'('pulur lontf and who, like th censor, v, an inii-v with 6 sharp pair of n heirs during Ihrt nfi'ciinl erni'ire. hhr has become be-come his patron faint. The propriet of the nume in jue-tioned jue-tioned by i' i v editor whe-fc copy has bMn plawhed. The work of Analaic wki urthojKai, f olio in a rat louul plan, and eirvuted with undoubted Ut and dlrwnmiual ion, whijV th reii-nor reii-nor of t"Uav is coriijan-d bv I'Arijan pnrnruj he's to an e.iitor with a Lilimin ir of life, a ttwprer,-) contempt for the frel.rt; of his frlluw man and a sfiinf of n".. apprna hint' h etr:a or niLtmajr. This view htuki out of the A parnit raprjep, ificonMpfti'";.' and iu-ri!,-innf v cf th cet"or. He cut nier-rili"i. nier-rili"i. er-lcriav hhl he b t go through the : b' fore, and what !:' k:!ir! yrterd:iv he aj proM-b todav. He !ah- t h copy of cue editor and 5l lwi Mriothe- lo pubi;h lb" same thirif. Tart of the mt-'nr Ui-paVh are c!im-i c!im-i bated from the p renin of one paper an.l n t-rionkrtl in another, aud eo on. Many Men Employed. The f,.-t i, ur, io ibt- dly, that the censor cen-sor is do;nj; the b- he can. If hit-work hit-work ee:r. to be rar'ed K) the journal jour-nal t, it it be'ausit he in boina ty in trillion iroui nuiny ji i ercnt urei th.it chants hnd aroimuialo eve-y dav. If it not uniform it is be-cati be-cati a farpe staff it required to do the I work and the n'-ral revilt in boned to , refi'-rt difftT'-nt peronal viewpoints. 1 The pvtu-al Ud of thn rdwjr.-diip was defined by the la-' of Atirust . HUI, forbidding ( ublieation of nws of mncmfDt' of trKiji, composition of tin 1 1 or deta-hmrnts of the army, dotal do-tal l s of d e t e n -1 v e w o r V. . n u rn t e rr of wounded, killed or T-rnoner. facth con-ee-nink- armaments, materia or sup-pl.es. sup-pl.es. Mtnitarv pit nation, promotions or changes rninr.f general offKers and in per, oral anv information !: kelr to ho of ne to th enemy or at harmfully uj'on the spirit of the armv or the population. popu-lation. ,olowintr thre general rules i via) recoinmeadation a.re tranr-mittil daily from the perioral headquarters. Disastrous Consequences. The consequence of uti censored references refer-ences to bombarded towns was shown in th cave of a citv, certain quarters of I whieh. that had Ven spared, were in-(iii in-(iii atd in A newspaper article. The j next dav the Germans directed their fire upon the blocks of houses indicated indi-cated in the article. Another artil: cited industrial etahli?b.mcDfs exploited exploit-ed bv the French army, not for from tho line-." Immediately the Germans bombarded bom-barded them and the French were obliged to abandon them. A weekly periodical published a photograph pho-tograph ot' a priest paving mass for a congregation of soldiers at a village near the front. The Germans learned from it that FVenoh troop were quartered quar-tered in the village and showered Bhells upon U. Newspaper complained that when the German atrocities were fre?h they could not publish thorn, while later on, after the battle of the Mame. when they had ceased to be news, thev were allowed to print them freely. The publication pub-lication of these details was prohibited because that was supposed to he what the Germans wanted, because the wider circulation given to them the more would ho the chanees of intimidation. After the battle of the Marno these reasons rea-sons disappeared. Usefulness Explained. The newspapers were also astonished that the censor should order them to cease puhlishing the state of tho barometer. ba-rometer. It hailn 't occurred to them that knowledge of the weather indications indica-tions would be of prent service to the pilots of German aeroplanes and Zcppe- lins. At one time the papers published pub-lished freely expedients used by the Frem'h prisoners in Germany to inform I their families how they were treated, in spito of the German censorship. This was Interesting, but the Exposure of their subterfuges rendered thorn useless use-less for the future. Pathetic recitals of the escape of prisoners from their guardians, how they got back to the French linoH through invaded regions, with tho names of the villages through which they passed, sometimes even the houses where thev were sheltered, were, extremely dangerous. They exposed the families who sheltered the soldiers to punishment by tho Gorman occupying troops. NewspnpeT forms are generally mn.de up before the censor's verdict is received, re-ceived, and rathor than make up ngain the incriminated articles, pumgTaphs or words are chiseled out of the stereotyped stereo-typed plate, leaving white blanks on the page sometimes covering a column or two sometimes a line or two. This gi ves rise to b musing incidents. General Gen-eral C'herfils wrote an interesting review re-view of General Maud 'huys operations. The censor cut out the details and what the reader found on the paee next morning morn-ing was this: ' ' Genem,! Maud'huv is a hero ho has not washed himself for fifteen fif-teen days." |