Show censor helped defeat defeat germa germany nv a performed great service in guarding allies interests during war THWART MANY FOE SCHEMES british official expunged lord of hosts from lloyd georges speech as kaisers keisers Kai sers aid de camp smuggling prevented the british postal censor Is soon going the way of the telegraph and cable censorship out judging from criticisms in america such as that of the merchants association to the postmaster general the going of this war institution ution will be just as joyously welcomed abroad as in england but whatever the petulance of those who think war ar restrictions have held over too long the postal censor in the opinion on of those who have watched his work from the viewpoint of british and allied security throughout the war has been of the greatest bonice in defeating germany the nearness arnesa ne of the date of the demise of this institution has called forth considerable information about its work thus far however there has been no amusing side such as was shown during the obsequies for the cable censorship just after mr lloyd george succeeded lord kitchener as secretary for war it Is related that lie he provided the ammunition for the censor to give the a lease on war life mr lloyd george went to Bram shott to bid good by to ft a canadian divisi division on about to cross the channel after the lie he made a speech from his 1119 motorcar concluding with a quotation from the bible and may the lord of hosts be with you correspondents spon dents who sent their dispatches first to the censor were surprised to find the final words of the secretary running in this fashion and may be with you it was amu amusing ing but also serious in the minds of the news writers so they protested however they got their reply from the censors department the kaiser having claimed the lord as his ald ad de camp no reference must be made to the divinity in this conne connection enemy schemes thwarted As I 1 said the postal censorship has s as yet turned up no morsel of relative choiceness chol ceness the postal censorship however has fins thwarted many enemy schemes that make just as interesting te or more interesting reading furthermore the british postal censorship was a much farther reaching organization than was attempted in Arni america rica simply bec because aue england was tho ahn channel through which virtually lly all questionable mall mail matter flowed the postal censor in london was the dam which held the flood ot of continental mall all until ench each portion of it could be passed upon and approved before being scattered over the wide world an idea of the immensity of the task can be obtained from the fact that a staff of nearly a hundred expert linguists was constantly employed to examine and approve mall mail matter written and printed in more than a hundred languages and dialects manuscripts set apts in every conceivable tongue found their place in this great mass of mail estimated at about letters daily much of the mall mail was passed with only mechanical inspection so sure did the examiners become of certain categories of communications but considerable sid erable more than the time saved on harmless mall was consumed in exhaustive hau stive examination and tests of questionable matter some of which was subjected to all manner of acid and xray X ray inquiry to detect hidden messages smuggling prevented there was also for a time a great smuggling campaign harmless looking bundles such as newspapers contain ing various commodities then obtainable in enemy countries such as coffee rice tobacco sugar and so on some even contained rubber bidden between the pages of the hie papers paper the most sought ii after f ter eviden evidence was that of military character and nii the censorship of malls mails more than repaid its ex expensive outlay in detecting information that might have wrought havoc with allied arms or at least helped germany in no uncertain degree there Is little doubt that none of that character of information which the I 1 he censorship obtained will be made public but officials directing britaina Brit ains war machines have not been slow to pay gay that thanks to the postal censori filp much valuable military information of every conceivable character came to their attention propaganda was the greatest and most constant effort of the germans the most harmless appearing sets of newspapers and magazines some of them with covers dated before the war dispatched from neutral nations to individuals or societies such as scientific organizations were often found to contain the latest german accusations of british mismanagement it E egypt agypt india or ireland books not always in german abere arere found to con lain into everything except what the titia proclaimed the postal censorship today possesses an intensely interesting museum of many of the propaganda carriers the germans sent out or caused to be sent out from their agents in neutral countries |