{
  "id": 950,
  "subject_type": "incident",
  "subject_id": 223,
  "field": "action",
  "value": "Bureau was sole mouthpiece for war information",
  "statement": "Asquith said the Official Press Bureau was the sole channel through which the Admiralty, War Office and other departments made naval and military information public.",
  "attribution": null,
  "source_id": 594,
  "evidence_quote": "Official Press Bureau is the mouthpiece through which communications relative to the progress of naval and military operations are made public by the Admiralty, the War Office, and other public Departments concerned.",
  "evidence_date": "1914-08-27",
  "method": "primary_document",
  "verified_at": "2026-09-26",
  "confidence": "high",
  "status": "current",
  "supersedes_id": null,
  "superseded_by": null,
  "supersede_reason": null,
  "batch_label": "historical-2026-09-26",
  "created_at": "2026-09-26T18:08:42Z",
  "url": "https://thewaronnews.com/claims/950",
  "subject_url": "https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1914-britain-press-bureau-controls-wartime-newspaper-coverage",
  "source": {
    "id": 594,
    "url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/27/british-press-bureau",
    "final_url": "https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1914/aug/27/british-press-bureau",
    "title": "British Press Bureau (Hansard, 27 August 1914)",
    "publisher": "British Press Bureau (Hansard, 27 August 1914)",
    "published_on": "1914-08-27",
    "link_state": "live",
    "link_state_since": "2026-09-26T18:11:00Z",
    "wayback_url": null,
    "wayback_saved_at": null
  },
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  }
}