The series of articles on " The State of the
Navy " which have recently appeared in the Times have elicited a remarkable letter from Admiral Sit• Cyprian Bridge, which appears in Tuesday's issue. Sir Cyprian Bridge draws a sharp line between the old system under which officials and officers supplied. informa- tion to journalists in order to instruct the public, and the new plan by which journalists are exploited as instruments for extolling and puffing individuals. Not only typewritten documents, but printed papers, have for some time been handed to journalists, "who were expected not only to report what was told them, but to report it in the way in which it was told them," and that although this information was refused to Parliament and to the Service. This indictment will not be new to readers of the articles by " Civis " in our columns, but it is now preferred with greater precision and detail.
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