The suppression of harmless but interesting news from the front has been objected to in Parliament and the Press, but, notwithstanding the assurance given by Lord Kitchener in the House of Lords, there hss been little improvement in the censorship. No Briton desires that anything which could militate against success in the field should be revealed, but most people feel that more might be said, for instance, about the achievements of the different regiments. The brilliant charge of the London Scottish was briefly referred to but descriptive accounts were unobtainable because no correspondents were present: similarly the splendid ge of the Lancashire Regiment only became known by chance. Indian troops were at Tsingtao, and they are now in France and Belgium, Egypt, Arabia and East Africa, yet very little news of them is published by the Press Bureau. Why should not their exploit be made known to India? Rajputana would glow over the deeds of the Sikhs, Nepaul would thrill at ae counts of the bravery of the Gurkhas. The British army needs a little more advertising protracted war calls for another million or two of men.
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