The Archive · 1938

Foreign Newspapers Received in Prague Censorship Causes Only Slight Delays

Prague, Sept. 19.

Delivery of all foreign newspapers to the news stands was delayed today las censors examined their contents more carefully than usual. None of the newspapers has been confiscated lon the grounds that accounts of the Anglo-French agreement—which were reported to envisage partition of the Czechoslovak state and secession of the Sudeten Germen area to the German Reich—were carried.

Newspapers arriving by plane have been speedily approved by the censors and have reached a limited number of buyers who reserved them in advance.

Censorship of telegrams, letters and telephone calls continued discreetly in accordance with the government decree which went into effect last Saturday night.

The United Press office at Prague received its usual allotment of today's French and English newspapers delivered by aeroplane after only one hours delay. Those arriving by rail including Saturday and—Sunday editions from London and Paris were examined by the parcel post censors land were not ready for distribution until several hours later.

All Czech newspapers have reported accounts of the Anglo-French agreement on joint policy in relation to the Czech-German crisis.—

United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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