The Press Bureau.

The patience of the British public, upon occasion becoming phlegmatic, is strikingly illustrated in presence of the newly constituted, fundamentally un-British, institution of the Press Censor. Even if it were intelligently administrated the office would be objectionable. Its blunders are systematically ludicrous. To the wholesome indignation of the American press, it vexatiously delays, sometimes absolutely prohibits, transmission of costly cable dispatches conveying news that has for days been broadcast in the English press. It makes nonsense of dispatches from war correspondents hungrily picking up crumbs of news from the battlefields extracted from the wallet of wounded soldiers.