Though the Censorship is often so drastic about trumpery details,
it does not prevent wicked and lying rumours from circulating from mouth to mouth. Indeed, it encourages such rumours, because it prevents them from being stamped upon in the open. During the past ten days rumours have been going about as to the behaviour of a portion of the New Army in France, and people have been whispering to each other that they have not done as well as they ought, and so forth. The result has been that time pessimists have made themselves very busy. As a matter of fact, there is nothing whatever in these stories. The units of the New Army, instead of behaving badly, have behaved with extraordinary dash and courage, and have won the approval of the Generals under whose command they have come, and who judge by the very high standard already set in Flanders by the Regulars and Territorials.
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