A rigid censorship has been clamped on Jewish Telegraphic Agency cables since the Arab-Jewish disorders started, resulting in merciless cutting and suppression of its news of the rioting which in three days has claimed seventeen Jewish and four Arab victims, with upwards of 120 wounded.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s correspondent has been forced to resort to the transoceanic telephone to get undeleted news out of the country.
To obviate a censorship fight with the press department of the Palestine Government, the correspondent was forced to agree to the department chief’s suggestion that he submit every cable to him before filing it.
Twelve hours later, when he learned that important deletions had been made in his cables and that whole stories had been suppressed, the correspondent sought the aid of the American consulate which immediately took the matter up with the Government.
Explanation by the Postmaster of Palestine that congestion had caused a delay of seven to twelve hours in the J.T.A. cables was not justified, it was ascertained, since only seventy-six cables have been filed by all Palestine correspondents together since the disorders began.
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