El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-05-07

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| tions TO those granted to correspond
ems accompanying the army. He
| will also grant passes when necessary
| to all correspondents at the seat OF
war He will he the channel OF COM
| mupicatiou between the general officer
commanding in the field and the cor
respondents. Each newspaper having
| q correspondent in the field or at the
seat of war will send him a copy of
| every issue OF the paper, so that he
NAV, by examining their contents, be
assured that the press rules in the field
are strictly adhered to.
"Eighth-This press censor will have
the power of insisting that ali commu-
nicatious from correspondents to their
newspapers must be sent through HIM
and he may detain or alter the COM
munications should he deem them TO-
furious to the iptere SITS of the army.
"Ninth-The general officer COM
msnding will. through his staff officer,
give as much information as he may
consider dvisable and consistent with
his duty to correspondents. The
press censor will fix an hour when
correspondents may call upon him
daily for information, and he will be
authorized to tell them everything
that can be published with safety to
the army.
L y
will facilitate so far as they can the
dispatch of the messages of CORES
pondents.
Eleventh-Should the means of COM
nun cation at the disposal of the gen
eral officer commanding in the field
not be sufficient TO convey the mess
ages of correspondents, the latter may.
under his sanction, arrange for a
special means Of transm itting Their
r. ;S tn ha al
~ understood that SUI h arrangements
are to be entirely under the control
Of the press censor
''Twelfth-The general officer COM
harding in the field has the power to
revoke at any true any license granted
under the authority OF the Commander
in-Chief at home. or under his own
authority, should he consider 1T ad-
vlsable in the interests of the army to
do so.
'.Thirteenth-Editor of newspapers
DESTROYS of sending agents TO the
theatres of war, and the corresponds at
whom they p oppose for that purposes,
will be required to sign the following
declaration:
49, have read the rules for the
guidance of editors of newspapers, and
of correspondents with an army in the
field, and. ...... hereby agree TO abide
by the same.
(SlgndbuTel. ...'' :,
" 'EdltO of The"
(Signature) ................
"PrOpOsed Cores pOndent to The"
to accompany t army"
IN THE FRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR.
No foreign newspaper CO respondent
was permitted to accompany the
French armies in the FrancO-Prussian
war OF 1870. Perm ssion was given to
certain number of gentlemen con-
nected with the journals of Paris to
proceed to the various quar- tiers Occu-
pied by the French armies, but they
were not allowed to give any informs
ton, and had to condne their letters
strictly to clarifying the achievements
OF the troops. The result was that for
part of the war the French nation was
kept in ignorance of the disasters
which befell its armies. The Ger
mans, on the other hand, allowed
newspaper correspondents of all coun-
posed no censorship upon them. The
field post WAS placed at their service
for the conveyance of letters to Be-
GUM and Germany, and thence to the
various destinations abroad. The field
telegraph was, as a rule. blocked for
newspaper messages by the pressure of
army work, but whenever the lines
were cl6dE Gne correspondents
we're at liberty to utilize
them in brief messages, which had
first receiv ed official approval, to their
The corresponds how
ever, sent their long teleeraphic dis
patches from offices in neutral cOun-
tries, or outside the zone of military
Jurisdiction, and therefore under NJ
But it will be observed
that the British regulations give the
press censor control over the OrganiZa-
tion of special meausof communication
by a correspondent outside the sphere
of military auth GRITTY, and the power to
prohibit altogether the dispatch of news
by such agencies. If that rule was i'm
posed by the German war authorities
during the FrancO-German war, the in
satisble appetite of the British public
for news from the theatre of operations
would not have been appeased, as it
frequently was, by the publications of
vivid descriptions OF engagements q
day after they bad been fought. Again
in the Russo-Turkish war, the Rus
SLAMS accepted every correspondent
who presented credentials from a re-
spectacle newspaper and a recon-
mendation from any Russian Ambas-
sador. The permit to accompany the
army Yves written on the back of a
of the correspondent to
whom it was granted; and a duplicate
OF the photograph was kept in AN al
bum at the headquarters OF the army.
Each respondent was supplied with
a badge, bearing the double eagles of
Russia, to wear on his breast. There
was no ceuso ship in the sense that let
tiers or kilograms had first to be submit
ted for Official approval: but copy of
each newspaper had to be sent to GER
tain polyglot officer for perusal, and he
had power to order the removal of any
correspondent to the rear. for indiscre-
tions in description or criticism.