Show EDITORS EDITOR'S INITIALS CUT OUT Employees In Italian Censors Censor's Bureau Didn't Understand American Newspaper Ways Home The The Italian censors censor's office has hns been baffled for two years In an effort to discover the meaning of little groups of letters and dashes clashes such as ax z h and so on which appear nt fit the tends ends of news items sent out by hy bythe bythe hythe the Associated d Press Iress in New ew York York- arid and r from there to the Associated As As- d Press correspondents from whom the items Hems came camp These marks are the initials of ot the writer editor or of ot the It Item m but hut apparently the employees of ot the censors censor's bureau suspected the they con e conveyed td some fome m mystic meaning for tor when J received b by the correspondent here they have often been cut out of ot the pages pageN or carefully obliterated with Ink orf orl r sometimes the entire batch of I mull mall Is withheld for two or three I months at a time The latter lutter Is the favorite method pursued b by the censors censor's office for preventing preventing pre pre- venting Information of ot a harmful nature na nn- ture from being disseminated It Is not unusual for tor news cables or business business business busi busi- ness dispatches of ot a nature seemingly suspicious to be quietly forwarded a week or 01 so after niter the sender has forgotten forgotten for for- gotten otten having filed tIled them On the whole however from an nn American point of view there has been little complaint regarding either cables or mails malls considering the activity activity activity ac ac- ac- ac of spies of ot Ital Italy Most 1 of ot the complaints are made mad editorially b by Italian newspapers which when news I IS IS' dull print I long n tirades declaring that the censor is suppressing interesting interesting inter Inter- esting news |