Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-08-31 | Page 1 | Censors Watch British Wires

CENSORS W WATCH ArCH BRITISH WIRES i All Ali Mes Messages Must Get Approval val J Editor This I h Is the first first dispatch dispatch dis die patch rec received ed r from font om London jince Ince the Imposition ItI I of or censorship p b by bythe bythe the British government go The Thelast Thelast last ast dispatch received from front Lon London Lein- Lein n. n don before cens cen censorship was filed at 1251 p. p in ni EST This w was s received almost exactly two t hours later LONDON Aug 31 31 OP P cP Passed through British censorship i Great Great Britain esti established full fuU censorship of all communications in and out of England at 6 57 p. p jn rn a. a m mo Lake Lak City time tonight Cens rs' rs walked in Id to tb cable tel telephone tele phone and wireless offices at that mo moment ent and stopped all services wv It was announced shortly ther there there- aft r cabled news nes copy copy must b be besent sent to cabe offices es where it would be read by the who censor censor censor- who would pass up n it tel telephone phone calls were were ere refused by the teJ telephone o C exchange The exchange said incoming calls also als were subject ct to the tensor tensor ten ten- sor and for the moment would not be put through At p p. p m m. U 40 p. p m m. EsT T however however cables cable from New still were being received fri fn m tle tle London office of of the ASso Associated tat d Press Press Presumably ly lh they y were r a f first firsty by y the censor I But one cable company advised it t cannot tell teli you anything now that censorship is here The British government for some weeks had made careful plans for controlling communications lons In the event C of emergency or exp expected emergency Y