19 OCTOBER 1945, Page 14

ISLAND CENSORSHIP

SIR,—In the article on the ," Future of Maltah " Canon Nicholls refers to a "notorious occasion (when) a parcel of books . . . was quietly destroyed by the post-office officials without explanation," as though this was a unique event. Is he not aware that within the past two years Mr. H. G. Wells' Crux Ansata was banned on this island, and that confidential instructions were issued to the Post Office that all copies were