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Show Financial Houses Scan Censoring In all the indignant hullabaloo that haa met British confiscation of United State mall, none of the government agencies Involved post office, state department has taken the further step of explaining explain-ing Just what happens to It Apoplectic congreasmea are assumingwithout assum-ingwithout inquiry that all German Ger-man mall is Intercepted, read and burned. Whereas British communiques com-muniques insist all letters except those bearing on the military picture pic-ture reach their German destines. From the Inquiiiee put out by banking groupa who are deeply concerned, the truth seems to lie In between. German corresponrU ente report that a tuprprlalng number of United States letters get through, neatly silt and re-sealed, re-sealed, and prominently stamped " Inspected by British Censors." On cross checking the banks have determined that much Innocuous mail Is never accounted for. Another An-other small percentage is returned to the sender stamped with the Information that the French or British censor declines to send It on. Banks have been unable to make a check of clipper mail because confiscation at Bermuda is too recentis re-centis still within the 60-day period In which letters may be reported delivered, destroyed or returned. Copyright, 1940, McClure Newspaper News-paper Syndicate. |