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Article V Each Contracting State shall, to the extent compatible with its national security, permit and facilitate access to news for all correspondents of other Contracting States so far as possible on'the same basis as for the correspondents employed by its domestic information agencies, and shall not discriminate among correspondents of other Contracting States as regards such access. Article VI Correspondents and information agencies of a Contracting State operating in the territories of other Contracting States shall have access to all facilities in such territories generally and publicly used for the international transmission of news material and shall be accorded the right to transmit news material from each such territory on the same basis and at the same rates applicable to all users of such facilities for similar purposes. Article VII 1. The Contracting States shall permit egress from their territories of all news material of correspondents and information agencies of other Contracting States without censorship, editing or delay; provided that each Contracting State may make and enforce regulations relating directly to national defence. Such of these regulations as relate to the transmission of news material shall be communicated by the State to all correspondents and information agencies of other Contracting States operating in its territory and shall apply equally to them. 2. If the requirements of national defence should compel a Contracting State to establish censorship in peace-time it shall : (a) Establish in advance which categories of news material are subject to previous inspection ; and communicate to correspondents and information agencies the directives of the censor setting forth forbidden matters ; (b) Carry out censorship as far as possible in the presence of the correspondent or of a representative of the information agency concerned ; and when censorship in the presence of the person concerned is not possible : (i) Fix the time-limit allowed the censors for the return of the news material to the correspondent or information agency concerned ; (ii) Require the immediate return of news material submitted for censorship direct to the correspondent or information agency concerned, together with the marks indicating the portions thereof that have been deleted and any notations ; (c) In the case of a telegram subjected to censorship : (i) Base the charge on the number of words composing the telegram after censorship ; (ii) Return the charge, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the international telegraph regulations currently in force, provided that the sender has cancelled the telegram before its transmission.