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(Untitled), 26 Feb 1915

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 13/47/110-112

Scope and Contents

Letter from Charles Scott, [Editor of] the Manchester Guardian, to WSC [First Lord of the Admiralty], on a request from the Admiralty that newspapers should not report the sinking of ships until the details had been officially announced by the Admiralty Press Bureau. Scott states that the request was impracticable, and that if a great liner it any other valuable ship was sunk with the loss of many lives, it was hardly possible that the press would ignore the event until the official announcement. He suggests that losses should be reported as they occurred day by day, in the briefest and most unsensational way.

Dates

  • Creation: 26 Feb 1915

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright: Copyright: not known

Extent

3 folio(s)

Language of Materials

English

External Documents

Bibliography

Published: Winston S Churchill : Companion Volume III, Part 1, pp.566-567

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