Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1943-02-05 | Page 6 | Keep Facts from Enemy by Keeping Lips Sealed

Keep Facts From Enemy By Keep'ng Lips Sealed WASHINGTON. The Office of Censorship issued this statement: "On battlefronts every day men risk their lives to discover the location loca-tion and strength of the military units of the enemy. Yet at home too many of us are presenting the enemy ene-my with information of the same military value. "This is the information which newspapers and individuals are asked not to tell the enemy: "Do not tell the names of ships upon which sailors serve. "Do not tell the troop units in -which soldiers serve overseas. "There is no objection to revealing that Private John Jones is in Australia Aus-tralia or that Seaman Tom Brown saw action in the Atlantic, but there is military information which endangers endan-gers the lives of American fighting men in stating that Private John Jones, Company C, 600th Infantry; is in Australia, or Seaman Tom Brown, aboard the USS Wisconsin, is in the Atlantic. "We ask editors not to publish these troop identifications, and we ask parents and relatives not to re-Teal re-Teal them. Don't give the enemy anything that may lengthen the war."