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The Bucyrus Evening Telegraph
Bucyrus, Crawford County, Ohio
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Western Union president Newcomb H. Carlton testified in Washington on Dec. 17 that British intelligence is holding US cable messages leaving Great Britain to investigate internal disturbances, particularly in Ireland and Bolshevism. Captain F. K. Hill reported wartime US business messages over British cables reached British interests.
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British Holding Up Cable Messages For United States.
Washington, Dec. 17.—Newcomb H. Carlton, president of the Western Union Telegraph company, declared that all American cable messages leaving Great Britain are now being held up for examination by the British intelligence authorities. He testified when recalled before a special senate committee investigating cables and the advisability of legislation affecting them. The new British requirements have been imposed, Mr. Carlton said, for the purpose of throwing light upon "internal disturbance 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.
Testimony that American business messages sent over British cables during the war had come into the possession of British business interests was given by Captain F. K. Hill, formerly an American naval attache in South American countries.
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Great Britain
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Dec. 17
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british requirements imposed for examining cables to investigate internal disturbances; wartime us business messages accessed by british interests.
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Newcomb H. Carlton testified that British intelligence authorities are holding up all American cable messages leaving Great Britain for examination, aimed at shedding light on internal disturbances, particularly regarding Ireland and Bolshevism. He was unsure about inbound cables from the US. Captain F. K. Hill testified that American business messages over British cables during the war reached British business interests.