The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-09-07
NEWSPAPER men
ASTOUND ENJOYS
Work Of Correspondents at Peace
Conference a Revelation to
Diplomats.

Portsmouth, N. H., Sept. Elm the
summing up of the results and by-re.,
suits of the peace conference, one Of
the most interesting of it's phases will
be found in that 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 artifce 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 admiring
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
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,
1t was argued, was perfectly safe and
positively illuminating. 1t was. Very
little can be taken from simple little
paragraph like this:
AT the morning session of Aug. IL
articles six and seven were taken up
and the ENJOYS came in accordance:
-" Korostovetz.
No Eavesdropping.
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
at the meetings, for if there was ever
ell-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 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
storehouse zone. Marines were at the
entrance to the building and surround
ings, 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
all it's 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-making is
not new had arrived in Portsmouth
from every quarter. Men who discuss
the eastern question, as it is called
with the knowledge of a prime minister
or secretary Of state were there, and
men who know news came after them,
It 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 London
Daily Telegraph; Sir E. Mckenzie Wal
lace, who has held similar position
for the London Times, DR.. Morrison,
Picking 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 Frankfurter Zeitung;
Boris Souverine Of the Novoe Vremya
Of st. Petersburg; M. Briannchineff of
the Slovoe;e Camille Cianfarra of La
Prensa, Buenos Ayres, and representa-,
t1ves OF every newspaper Of Importance
in the United States were in the throng
10 such men 1t was natural that the
bulletins should prove fiat, stale and I'm.
profitable, and the forces went to work
with the result known to the readin @
public. Prac tically all that took place
at the session was published all over the
world next day.