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Frank Gardner: Why were journalists threatened with execution in WW1? - BBC World War One

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BBC Defence Correspondent Frank Gardner explores how The War Office was allowed to censor the press and execute anyone convicted of 'assisting the enemy'. He reveals how some journalists, like Philip Gibbs, lived like outlaws in France after Lord Kitchener banned them from the front line. Find out more about journalists in World War One: www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zs9bwmn
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