Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1920 — BRITISH HALT CABLES [ARTICLE]

BRITISH HALT CABLES

PRACTICE DIBCLOBED BY W. U. HEAD AT HEARING. President Carlton Tails Sonata ComrAittca Ha Lays Action to Troubla In Ireland. Washington, Dec. 17.—A1l American cable message* leaving Great Britain are now being held up for examination by the British navul Intelligence authorities, Newcomb H. Curlton. president of the Western Union Telegmpb company, testified when recalled before a special senate committee investigating cables and the advisability of legislative action uffecting them. The new British requirements have been Imposed, Mr. Carlton suid, for the purpose of throwing light upon “Internal disturbances in Great Britain and I presume more particularly with reference to Ireland and Bolshevism.” Mr. Carlton added that he was not sure whether Inbound cables from the United States also were being held for examination. When the Bysteiq was instituted, President Carlton added, the Western Union company had “taken a Arm stand,” hut wns assured that the messages would, not be interfered with or censored. Capt. F. K. Hill, who wns a naval nttuche of the United States to South American embassies, told the committee that during the war American business messages sent over English cables had gone into the possession of their English competitors.