The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-20
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 From interior points the sending of news will be slow, necessarily and fraught with difficulties. not only on ac- count of a rule issued by the Japanese Government which makes 1t necessary for ali dispatches destined for points beyond Tokio to be filed with the censor in Ja- panest. '-,s' s.
 This necessitates the sending of Japa- nose ,translators with each correspondent. and. of course. retards the work of get- | ting out the news to very considerable extent, But. the Japanese newspapers are very entetprIsthg and arc likely to get more freedom in the handling of news, and the Tokio correspondent of the Associated Press has been instruct ed to improve the opportunity that will thus come his way. .., -.. To get news through from the Russian side will undoubtedly be harder still. First of all. the censorship will be more rigid within the Russian lines both aa matter. of well-known Russian principle. on account of the early setback to the Russian arms, and on account of wretch ed telegraph facilities. But the Asso- ciated Press has taken all that into con- sideration and made ample preparations to meet this emergency. Already It's ability to get war news out of the Mus covite Empire has been put to the test during the present campaign and not been found wanting.
 From the interior of Korea and Man. churia, where the land campaign un- doubtedly will be carried, there Is one single telegraph line operated by the Great Northern Telegraph Company. which. struggling across the Siberian steppes and followig the windings of the trans-siberian Railway. finds it's way to St. Petersburg. and furnishes the sole purely Russian connecting link between the modern capital of Russia and its for bidding sentinel in the extreme East. Port Arthur. While this line is likely to suffer from the ravages of warfare 1t will form the most reliable medium for transmitting news of the movements Of Russian troops in the interior. In view of this fact the Associated Press has established a full bureau in St. Petersburg. and, has sent its Wash ington correspondent, Howard Thompson. who served through the Spanish war. to take charge. A few days ago the Gen eral Manager of the Associated Press. the CZar. at which MT. Stone received assurances that his St. Petersburg bu- reau would be made the medium of transmitting official news from the Rus sian capital to this country.
 Already this bureau has rendered ex- cellent account of itself For over a week 1t has transmitted graphic and very full dispatches of news from the Rus 1 sian capital affecting the war. It was l through MT. Thompson that the full re- | port of Admiral Alexieffs report of tho Port Arthur defeat was sent out without | delay, and practically uncensored, though | damaging to the prestige of Russian | arms and Russian credits, and on Tues | day evening the Czars war edlct. which | was given to the world exclusively | through the Associated Press, came through from St. Petersburg.
 From TolIio Mir. Egan sent in advance the full text of the official statement re- gardng the causes leading up to the war given out by the Japanese government. This was sent to Che Foo and cabled from there to the New York once.
 The sending of this important dispatch involved an expenditure of almost $z000. It was turned over to the Associated Press papers only yesterday afternoon, but arrived in the New York ofice fully | sixteen hours in advance of the giving out of the statement for publication bS the Japanese Ambassador in Washington. He made 1t public on Tuesday evening at A time when 1t had already appeared in print in some of the Washington neWspa- pers. which had received it through the Associated Press.
  Preess has prepared to utilize various other avenues through which news Is likely to trickle from the interior of Man. churia. From Harben and Mukden there are some imperfect lines. with many re- lays leading through Picking to points to the coast Already few brief dispatches have come through this way to the coast from where they are sent through vari- Ous connections over the new Pacific ca- ble which was extended a year ago to cover the entire distance between San Francisco and Manila.
 Pacific Cable a Factor.
 The Pacific cable will be an important factor in the transmission of war news. It's existence marks a distinct forward step in the rapid handling of news. The old way of sending news from the Far | East was from Shanghai through the In, dian Ocean, the Red See and suez to London. This involved thirtyStWo or tnIrs ty-three relays. By this route dispatches were likely to be long ln transniisslon