In addition to the press, the Censorship Group within the War Monitoring Office also dealt with telegrams. This essentially involved two measures: “the closure of certain telegraph offices” (for instance in the broader area of the front) and “the monitoring and control of telegrams by what were known as Censorship Commissions”. The latter were set up in a number of cities of the monarchy (Vienna, Krakow, Lviv, Prague, Innsbruck, Graz, Trieste and Zadar) at the start of the war, and were under the control of the armed forces, with staff comprising military and telegraph officials.
