Drops Censorship of Stories About Rebel Kidnappings

Special to The New York Times

GUANTANAMO BAY, July 9- The Cuban Government was reported today to have lifted censorship for newsmen at this United States naval base who are covering the story of Americans kidnapped by Cuban rebels.

A Navy spokesman said President Fulgencio Batista promised there would be no censorship on any story, except for those of one correspondent Jules Dubois of the Chicago Tribune.

Mr. Dubois has frequently clashed with President Batista as chairman of the Freedom of the Press Committee of the Inter-American Press Association.

 Censorship has hampered telephone communications, although supposedly not cablegrams. Ambassador Earl E. T. Smith in Havana had taken up the correspondents’ complaints.