The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-02

catastrophes can recruit citizens like
yourself need not despair"
As a national guardsman NJ. de Bio
WITT took a prominent part in combat
ing the commune insurrection at Mar
seilles, and when Gen. Espivent de la
Villeboisnet ultimately crushed the re-
bellion NJ. de Blowitz was dispatched
by him to Versailles TO make a report
of the whole affair to Theirs. So con-
spicueus were his services during the
commune instruction at Marseilles-
it was thanks to his ingenuity that the
beleaguered city was able to remain in
telegraphic communication with YER
sailles by means of a secret wire Of
which the communists were ignorant
that NJ. de Blowitz was created a
knight of the Legion of Honor. Theirs
likewise promised him the appointment
of French consul general at Riga, and
it was while waiting for this appoint
ment at Versailles that Fred Marshall
Bong the English secretary of the Jap
anese legation in Paris, brought about
a meeting between De Blowitz and
Oliphant. The latter on learning of
the little mans intimacy with Theirs
requested him to obtain from the lat
ter an interview for the Times. which
De Blowitz proceeded to do with such
success that Oliphaht Immediately in
vited him to become his principal as
sistant, and to abandon all thoughts
of going abroad in a consular capac-
ity for the French government. When
about a year later, Oliphant resigned
from the Times in order TO come to
this country as a member of the sect
of DR.. Harris, at Portland, N. Y, NJ.
de Blowitz succeeded him as principal
correspondent at Paris, a post which
he has retained until now.
The secret of the marvellous success
of NJ. de BlowitZ was the absolute and
complete confidence with which he in
spired the statesmen, the politicians
and the diplomats with whom he was
brought in contact, and which he never
betrayed. They all felt that they could
depend absolutely on his discretion, no
matter how great the temptation from
a journalistic point of view to do 9TH
erwise. and when the Duke Decazes,
while playing billiards at the Quai
d'Orsay after dinner one evening, sud
denly received the news of the pur-
chase by the British government of the
khedive's stock in the Suez Canal Com
pany, and, wild with rage, broke forth
into frantic threats against the Eng
fish government charging NJ. de Bio
witt to make known his Indignation
and the fact that he was bent on re-
taliation, the ambassador of the
Times" who had been one of the party
present, although he saw the value of
the news, made no use of it. The next
day he met the Duke, who had recov-
cred his senses, and who, grasping him
by both hands, exclaimed: Il shall
never forget what you have done for
us. You have sacrificed journalistic
success to your sense of duty and to
the cause of peace"
On more than one occasion the late
Prince Hohenlohe, when German en-
bassador at Paris, quietly requested the
French minister of foreign affairs,
through NJ de Blowitz. to attach no I'M
due Importance to official communica-
tons which he had been directed by
Prince Bismarck to convey to the
French government, and which, had it
not been for this intimation on the part
of M de Blowitz, might have resulted
hn diplomatic rupture between the
two countries, while in another instance
Bismarck himself made use of NJ de
Blowitz and of the latter's dispatches
to the Times to counterfeit the designs
of the war party at Berlin, which was
endeavoring to force his hand and TO
revive the war with France ut a mo-
ment which he deemed inopportune. In
one word, NJ. de Bowitz served France
and the foreign governments, as well
as the cause of universal peace, quite
as much by the news which re refrained
from writing as that which he publish
ed, and his services were fifty reward
ed when, at the congress of Berlin in