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Show I s. PUBL1CITT. I BUREM MEETS I All Proper Information to Be H Open to the Peoplts Plans H Being Made. H ADVISORY PRESS BOARD H Set of Rules for Guidance of H Newspaper Editors to Be H Drawn Up. H WASHINGTON, April 16. Secrotar- B ies Lansing, Baker and Daniels and IH George Creel, who compose the new government publicity bureau created IH by President Wilson, held their first IH meeting today to map out a course of action. H -The primary purpose of the bureau, M it was stated, was to profit immedl- M atoly by the mistakes made abroad In IH imposing a military censorship on the M press at the beginning of the war and H to open to the public all proper Infor- IH mation as to what the government is doing or Intends to do. IH Details of the plan are still to be H worked out. There will be no effort H to withhold any information except IH such as in the judgment of the press M itself it would be unwise to print. An. H advisory relationship with the press H representatives in Washington will be IH established to secure that end. No Direct Censorship. M Indications are that no attempt at H direct censorship will be made. The IH bureau will formulate, after a confer- H ence with the newspapermen here, a M set of regulations for the guidance of H newspaper editors and which it is H believed will be so clear and impose M so few restrictions that there can be IH no mistake as to their meaning. It IH will bo left to the papers themselves to comply and there Is no plan for IH watching the columns of the press. H It was explained that. In the view H of some members of the bureau, much IH of the secrecy that has surrounded H army and navy matters in Europe has H been unnecessary. There is no Inten- H tion of building up a system of sup- H prcssion in the United States. H |