The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1905-09-15
Astounding NEWS WORK
PEACE ENJOYS ARE AMAZED AT
AMERICAN METHODS.
QUICK WORK A REVELATION


The Peace ENJOYS Had Planned to
Give a Bulletin Of Fifty Words Each
Day, But the Correspondents Got
Next to Every Detail.
In the summing up of the results and
by-results of the peace conference, one
of the most interesting of its phases
will be found in that part which treats
of the work of the newspapers of the
world, says a Portsmouth dispatch
The modern newspaper was a revela
tion to diplomacy, which apparently
does not like revelations. Although
every artifice and precaution hereto
fore found effective by statesmen to
conceal results was taken, yet daily
enough of the facts appeared to draw
question, "How do you do it? No one
tells you, of that we are absolutely
certain; yet it has been there, and we
cannot understand"
Planned Blue BOOK.
The ENJOYS and their suites and
every other person freely acknowl
edged that it was the original inten
ton to have a blue book published
some time next year containing as
much of the official minutes of the
meeting as would be thought wise for
the public ever to know. In the mean
time it was determined that a fifty.
word bulletin daily, or twice daily
would be enough for the newspapers
and the public generally. A bulletin
it was argued, was perfectly safe and
positively Illuminating. 1t was, Very
little can be taken from simple little
paragraphs like this:
"At the morning session of Aug. u
articles six and seven were taken w
and the ENJOYS came in accordance.
-"Korostovet2."
No Eavesdroppine.
1t had been agreed that neither side
should give out information and that
neither should talk at any length. The
United States government saw TO it
that there should be no eavesdrOpping
at the meetings, for if there was ever
a well-guarded building in history ii
was the storehouse in which the ses,
sions were held. Marines were at the
gate of the navy yard and along its
sea walls. No person without a pass
was admitted to the yard and passes
became rarities. Marines were at in.
tersecting streets, and no person with.
out several passes could get into the
zone. Marines were at the
entrance to the building and surround,
ingS, and no person not personally
vouched for by the very highest au.
thor could enter there, and in that
list were the members of the suites
and the representative of the United
States government
They Got the News.
But the news came forth. and to tell
all it's sources would fill columns The
of the world had sent men
to that conference with instruction to
find out, somehow" and it is need
less to say that resourcefulness had
been one of the tests when selection
was made. Men to whom treaty.mak-
ing is not new had arrived in Ports.
mouth from every quarter Men who
discuss the eastern question, as it is
called, with the knowledge of a prime
minister or a secretary of state were
there, and men who know news came
after them.
1t would be impossible to give the
full list of 1913 Specials" who appeared
in one day, Africa being the one con.
tinent missing. DR.. e. j. Dillon, st.
Petersburg correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Telegraph; Sir f. Mckenzie
Wallace, who has held a similar po.
sition for the London Times; DR.. Nor.
rison, Pekin correspondent of the
London Times; Jules Hademan of the
Matin; e. Won Gottberg of the Lokal
Anzeiger; CASTOR Richard of lie Petit
Parisien; Otto Kahn of the Franklin.
ter Zeitung; Boris Souverine of the
Novoe VTemya of ST. Petersburg: NJ
Briannchineff of the Slovoe; Camille
Cianfarra of La Prensa, Buenos Ayres
and representatives of every newspa.
per of importance in the United States
were in the throng
TO such men it was natural that the
bulletins should prove fat, stale and
Improbable, and the forces went tC
work with the result known to the
reading public. Practically all that
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