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...Mail, telephone conversations and other forms of communication are subject to censorship. Telephone and telex services are temporarily suspended...
...silence of the bayonet fell on Poland last week. To a degree unprecedented in Europe since the end of World War II, a modern nation was sealed off from the outside world. In the icy cold of a savage winter, the country's telephone and telex lines were cut. What little news reached the West was smuggled out by travelers, or was broadcast over tightly censored Polish radio and television...
...could not get their dispatches out except by subterfuge. Said Los Angeles Times Managing Editor William Thomas: "We've never seen such a complete clampdown on all avenues of information." Added New York Times Foreign News Editor Robert Semple Jr.: "Even in Iran you could always find a telex somewhere. You at least had two-way communications...
Throughout Saturday evening there had been ominous signs of the trouble to come. Reports reaching the Warsaw headquarters of the trade-union movement Solidarity from regional offices warned of an unusual amount of troop activity throughout the country. Tanks were seen on provincial highways. In late evening, telephone and telex lines between Poland and the outside world were suddenly cut. And then, at midnight, eleven police vans appeared on Warsaw's Mokotowska Street, where the local headquarters is located, and blocked the thoroughfare. Moments later dozens of steel-helmeted riot police stormed the building, where they arrested union members...
Under the martial law decree, Solidarity was "suspended," as were other forms of union activity. Also prohibited were all public meetings, except religious services held inside churches. Poland's borders were sealed and its airports closed. Telephone and telex communications were severely disrupted, both with the West and with friendly countries such as the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia. Inside Poland, phone communications were also interrupted. Poles were told to seek out military patrols in the street if they needed emergency assistance...