# Incidents: secrets and espionage laws, head of government Herbert Henry Asquith

Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.

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- 27 August 1914: [Britain's Official Press Bureau controls newspaper coverage of the First World War](https://thewaronnews.com/incidents/1914-britain-press-bureau-controls-wartime-newspaper-coverage). Weeks after Britain entered the First World War, Prime Minister Herbert Asquith told the House of Commons that the Official Press Bureau was the sole channel through which the Admiralty, the War Office and other departments released naval…

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