Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-09-08
Work OF the American News
paper Men a Revelation to
Russ and Jap
THE SECRETS LEAKED OUT
ENJOYS Were Puzzled to Know How
The Newspaper Men Learned What
Took Place in the Star Chamber
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Correctness
Of Reports.


summing up Of the results and by-re-
suits of the peace conference, one OF
the most interesting OF its phases will
be found jill tteit part which treats OF
the work of the newspapers of the
world. The modern newspaper was
revelation to diplomacy, which appar-
emily does not like revelations. Altho
every artifice and precaution hereto
fore found effective by statesmen to
conceal results was taken, yet daily
enough Of the facts appeared to draw
from one of the ENJOYS the adnirins
question, How do you do it? No one
tells you. of that we are absolutely GER
tain; yet it, has been there. and we
cannot understand"
Planned Blue Book.
The ENJOYS and their suites and
4 every other person freely acknowl-
edged that 1t was the original inten-
81 ton to have q 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 publie generally. A bulletin,
i It was argued, was. perfectly safe and
positively illuminating. 1t was Very
little can be taken from q simple little
paragraph like this:
AT the morning session Of Aug. IL
articles six ard seven were taken up
and the ENJOYS came in accordance.
-"Korostovetz."
No l:avesdropping.
+ It 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
I that there should be no eavesdropping
at the meetings, for If there was ever
q we'll guarded building in history it
was the storehouse in which the ses-
sions were held. Marines were at the
gate OF the navy yard and along it's
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
otorehouse zone. Marines were at the
entrance to the building and surrounds
tngs, and no person not personally
vouched for by the very highest au-
thority could enter there, and in that
list were the members of the suites
and the Representatives of the United
States government.
They Got the News.
But the news came forth, and to tell
al its sources would fill columns. The
newspapers 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 Il secretary of state We're
there, and men who know news came
after them.
It would he 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 e. McKen-
xie Wallace, who has held a similar
position for the London Times. DR..
Morrison, Picking correspondent of the
london Times; Jules Hademan of the
Matin; 3. Won Gottberg of the Lokal
Anzeiger; CASTOR Richard of LIE Petit
Parisien; Otto Kahn Of the Frankfurt
ter Zeitung; Boris lsouverine of the
Novoe vremya Of st. Petersburg; M.
Briannchineff of the Slovoe; Camille
4Cianfarra of Ia Prensa, Buenos Ayres,
and representatives Of every newspa
per Of impor lance in the United States
were in the throng.
To such men it was natural that the
bulletins should prove fiat, stale and
unprofitable, and the forces went %
work with the result known to the
reading public Practically all that
took place at the session was publish
ed all over The world next day.