The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-08-27
The False Pretcnccs of the Tribune.
The suljoined matter was published in the
IFijVRo yesterday
I'M. I.IlL.. NH Irlt.n.

IrijVn6 yesterday:
10 ne Eliioi QrtAe Tribu1,
slE' In th}t remarkably vivid description OF the bat
~ as COMING ron v9nr aperIa' cG resP9e"f Who was
emit a. S ,6S ms SI1s i9c Of ho san.
also present Al The hcadquarten OF the King.
.Qgt,V-nc's Ina srN EEL 'ac truth? Nlll TINS syS
'l Zee Y SGi' k sasE &, 1870. H. h.
AHSlrtr. The despatch referred 10 wa. written by
very capable special correspondent Of the Tribune,
engaged solely tor us tor war service. paid solely
by US and admitted TO the Prussan headquarters az
the Tribune correspondent by pass from Won
Bismarck. lie sent his letter through, bv special
messenger from the battlefield. to the TriJuDe's
London Office, whence t was transmitted TO the Ii-
time by telegraph. TUE SUN had more TO do
With him than 1t has TO do with the Emrero OF
dent It does not even to this hour know his
Any claim that he is its correspondent Is deliber-
ate and shameless alschood, told with the certainty
mat only amazing the most ignorant could 1t escape
detection. We answer III, ks inqury-we add
no comments. Whether newspaper, capable of
such course. be believed ut any time or on any
SUBJECT Is a question which every reader must settle
iof himselL-lLH
The TfJUne'S correspondent tells false
hood when he states that only an epitome of
the report of tho battle of Gravelotte was
published in THE sun. 1t was published
entire in THE Sun, the same as in the Tri-
LuEe though the latter journal dishonesty
kept the conclusion Of it from us until go
late an hour that we were not able to prnt
that portion in our whole edition. This dis.
honesty the I'rtJWn6 is in the habit of prac
Using.
As for the question whether the writer Of this
battle report was our special correspondent or
n I, II is settled by the rules of the Associa.
ted Press. His report was ours special = and
generally, from beginning to end, from top
TO bottom, from front to rear and it costs
us some $500 in gold, Just as much in short
as it costs tho lrt5WHc, though, by keeping
1t back ill an nconvenient hour that Jour
nal sought to deprive us Of our right to it,
With what face then docs the IriJuao assert
that we have no more to do with this core.
spondcnt than we have with the Emperor
and do we pay the Emperor of China ?
Doesn't his work belong TO us after it is
done and have we any right to that of the
Emperor Of China2
Every paper that belongs to the Associated
Press is at liberty to employ M many tcle.
| graphic correspondents as it likes in Europe,
THE Sun has several so have the HtTald,
the World, the TIMES, and the Tribune. But
all their kilograms have to DO furnished to
all members Of the Association before they
are published and every paper has tho same
right to use them as that paper by which
they are first received. Thus the special
correspondence Of any one is also the special
correspondence of oil the others. This the
FaIse-reporting Tribune knows and in iti
own dishonest way lives up to-; and yet il
has tho impudence to make extraordinary
nretcusions Of having exclusive news from