Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-11-07

proved their ability to read and write
French and ride a horse. and repeat
Peter Piper picked 4 peck without
| slipping, word came from Kitchener
that this thing must not be. He had
| once called Bennett Burleigh. the great
est correspondent of them all. n camp
| follower" in an official report-and
| that in reporting an incident in which
| Burleigh had saved the life of Il valu-
| able officer He hasn't changed his
opinion of the breed.
! "oh. very we'll" said the CORE
! SpondentS. Wen go with the Belg ia n
army.
| So they swarmed ali over Belgium.
! AS soon as Kitchener began to read
stories in the papers he sent word to
| Belgium that the war correspondents
must be eliminated at once. The cor
/ respondents say that he threatened To
withdraw all English aid If this were
, not done. This is probably an i'll
every time he comes to cross purposes
with any general of the allied armies.
Anyhow, they all came back to Lon
| don and began to hammer at Kitchener
office said that the French leaders OBJ
! Jected to the presence OF correspond
eIt5 with the armies This was de-
! med by persons in authority At last
Lord Kitchener yielded
~, Ten may 60 said he. Ten only
They must all he British born and rep
/ resent English papers only"
| 20 the Americans SET mp Il mighty
| EaWp. For Il time Kitchener was in
| HeN!ble- He dida't want any American
! along. and said so. Finally he mad
Il concession one American only and
one Canadian only might go. They
! must represent impartially ALI Ameri-
can and Canadian press associations
/ More time passed. The American
could not agree on the man. TIL. wal
once SAID the man mist be selected
n ft4 .st,-f.,
. ton. The state Department, blow in. :.
! on Its fingers, said that ii wouldn't
MAKE any selection if il knew itself
ana IL rather thought it did. Kitchen
ier would not bend. SO the America Il
press associat ions got together and Sc
lected man. The State Department,
forwarded the name of that man as o.
T., its selection
| nee. The ten correspondents NAV go"
Meanwhile They Were Beaten.
! The ten had all been selected The,
sat around London waiting for per.
mission to 20. Meanwhile free-lanct
correspondents skipped around through
France and belgium getting what they
could and printing the same. Every
now and then some of them would
be arrested. Whenever one was ar.
rested his usefulness in this wa,
ceased. He either had to promise moi
70 print any more about the war o,
else learn tatting. A fire way to pas
away time in prison cell is to tat
Inc selected ten began to get i'm.
patient
we are having your passes prepar-
ed, said the war office
After very long time the passes
were prepared. They bore the photo
graph of the correspondents, and al
their vital statistics. and were counter.
signed by various chiefs of STAFF. Tn.
ten put in several bright DAYS collect,
ing these signatures. The chiefs O,
staff were hard to come at Then the,
were rounded up and made to sign ;
pledge.
| You must promise not to reveal tn.
whereabouts of troops, or to forecas
their future movements, or use the
names of commanding officers. or max,
any comment whatever on the strategy
personnel. or material of the British
army. were a few of the prohibition.
on this pledge. The ten sat arount
rather detected. That pledge didn't
leave them anything at all to writ.
ABOUT the war But they signed il
Ihey wanted very much indeed to go t.
the front.
In 4 few days, now" said the wa,
office wal
The selected ten busted off their sad
dlebags and had their medals REFINED
anu bought new typewriters. Then tn.
war office asked:
| Have you horses?"
or course they hadn't any horses. NJ
one had even said horse to them tn.
war office said they must hurry out ant
BUY horses. They might start any da,
now. So the ten bought horses Al
horses are dear nowadays. they pail
an average of $500 each for them. Tn,
war Office said they must have a pas
for each horse.
Must Their Horses Talk?
BY and by they got their horse passes
! Each horse was named and numbere,
and described. Ii was understood that n;
| horse could pass a sentry if it had for.
gotten its pass. There was more wait
Then the war office said laughingly:
| Absurd. what? But you won't need
horses. We've decided to take you in
automobiles.
More time passed on. The officer il
! charge Of the press arrangements Sc
| cured automobiles. An extra car was to