Please ascertain and advise urgently if B.B.C. has during the past
week broadcast news that 'Queen Mary' is in Sydney Harbour and
advise most urgently.

Any B.B.C. references to these ships places Government here in
extraordinary difficulty in and out of Parliament. People cannot
understand why B.B.C. should mention these ships and speculate
upon destinations while Australia enforces strictest censorship
against distribution of such news within Commonwealth. If B.B.C.

persists in this policy it will become practically impossible to
impose censorship as requested by Admiralty with respect to
shipping. [1]

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