ABSTRACT
The CID Sub-Committee on Press Censorship and on Postal Censorship met in late November 1912, to consider voluminous documentation provided by Hankey. 18 The conclusions which emerged were that the Joint Committee arrangements should be given a ‘fair trial’, and that an annual report should be made on the general working of the scheme; but nevertheless that the Bill for Control of the Press should be introduced on the outbreak of war, ‘or at such time as the Cabinet may think desirable’, and meanwhile kept on the Statute Book for operation as required by Order in Council. 19
