Excerpt from Private and Confidential Memorandum: This Pamphlet Is of a Strictly Confidential Character and Intended for the Personal Information of the Newspaper Men of Canada Who Are Responsible for What Appears in Their Respective Publications The censoring of newspaper cable despatches received in Canada, for the most part is effected at the English stations, though the Canadian cable censors are not thereby relieved from the responsibility of eliminating passages which might do harm to British interests. The whole of the cables now in operation between Europe and North America are under the control of the British and French Governments, the cables between the United States and Germany via the Azores having been cut at the commencement of hostilities. Direct communication is possible by wire less between Germany and the United States. This German wireless service is under United States censorship, by the United States naval authorities. The sole object of this censorship being to protect the republic's neutrality, it is not such as British or allied authorities, whose object is, not the preservation of neutra lity, but' the prosecution of the war to a successful conclusion, would impose. Consequently we cannot be sure that information obtained in Canada which would be considered dangerous by a British censor will not be transmitted by wireless direct to the headquarters of the enemies of our country. There is no doubt that there are numerous active agents of the hostile powers in Canada and the United States on the lookout for every scrap of information likely to be of value to the enemies of the Empire. During the first few days of the war, the press of Canada found itself con fronted with novel and extremely difficult conditions. Editors and publishers were anxious to gratify the insatiable demand of the reading public for news; but they knew, in a general way, that the public safety demanded that certain information be with-held. Exactly what to publish with safety and what to suppress it was difficult to determine, and consequently, intelligence calculated to endanger British and allied interests and to be of service to the enemy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.