Ban On Aviation News.

New York Times 100 years ago today, April 3, 1913:
Government Asks German Papers to Suppress Accounts of Progress.
    BERLIN, April 2.— A semi-official appeal to the German newspapers to refrain in the future from publishing news as to the voyages and evolutions of German military airships is published in the Norddeutsche Allegemeine Zeitung to-day. They are asked not to record the advances made in aviation and not to report bomb throwing and machine-gun experiments carried out by military aviators. They are also requested to maintain silence generally as to developments in German military armament and equipment.
    The Government organ takes as its text the success of the British War Office in concealing its supremacy in aviation and in the numbers of its military aeroplanes until Col. Seely, the British Secretary for War, made his startling announcement in the House of Commons on March 19.