Grand Forks daily herald. (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1914-1916, 1914-11-21
THE London Mnil." said the r,

~ ttI.
You are under the officer be-
gan.
hut he wasn't. The reporter had
heard that uminuus ormul before.
lie upset the table on the half-khakied
man ana ran away. i:ut he fully real
ICES that the Officer will never die
happy until he was wiped that insult
ont in arrest. So the reporter thinks
he will move on.
Tn, getting the facial expression
I, of a door mai thief" said the renor-
ter. II run every time | see an ON
! Ger
Two days before he Ind managed
to get to Dunkirk, There he was talk
ing with Il pair of privates when he
saw their faces change. Some one
was coming M behind him. lie did
not turn and give the show away. He
! said guod-by hurricdly and walked
between a pair of freight ears. Good
! fortune led the engineer Ia herin
shining the ears ahnut before The
officer had convinced himself nv cues
tionIns the Tommies that the runaway
was really q ~reporter nv that lima
/ he was safe.
There are ps forty OF, ,ifty
Euslish rcporterw scattered through
these French coast towns. The Eng.
As fast as they are identified thew
are placed under arrest.
..Thev cot mo al Arrasv said tho
reporter. II didn't have a chance
! there. Half a dozen of the staff knew
me. One of EN- belongs TO nv club
an hour before they nicked me- nm"
Orders from the English war office
are that. 40 far AS pnssibIe. ma news
whatever OF this war shall he nrinted
rxcent the nttici commandments
Doubtless Genera KitcheneI. las his
req He probably realizes that il
the world knew what cruel %slauyhter
is going an ar the front there wouId
be an sffectiye nrotes, against the con-
tinuance of he war. DOUBTLESS. too.
recruiting might lie interfered with
Beyond I'M question, too. Kitchener
has the war officials point of view.
civilians have no rishts excent that
of paying bills and being fed to guns.
War responder are an esDeciallv
loathsnn1e form of civilian.
~ was under arrest" snid the re-
porter. and in a cell for a time. Rot
ten cell. Damn straw. Some one else
had been there before me. Didn't
have much To cat for a day,"
Getting War Photographs.
He was sent back 10 london, but
he was not connected to sign a prom
Use not to write more news Of the war.
So that MS soon M he had eaten and
slept and bathed enough to make up
arrearaees he returned tn the mali
fed front. Every day he meets his
fellow reporters at the cafes in the
coast towns. Thev compare what
they have learned from p%riyates and
wounded men during the day. Then
they write stories from IA town in
France" They do not want to cheat.
But thew must. or else accent the war
office dictum that the world shall no
know what is going on.
NJ photographer has had his
troubles. too" said the reporter. But
he hasn't been arrested. He has mere.
lv been kept on the run"
Several, al least. of the London
papers start their photographers out
from base camps with cheap cameras
ana fifty dollars in money. II thew
are arrested the soldiers smash their
cameras. The photoera pliers must
get themselves out the best way thew
can, The paper will not aid. If they
get photographs they are given an
other fifty dollars and sent out again,
II they do not they are sent home II
is wearing on photographers. and it
does not produce valuable results.
Sometimes the reporters are not
treated in a very sportsmanlike way.
There is the case Of Granville Fortes-
cue, "A London writer. The French
caught him on the road in his auto
mobile. They made him walk six mr.
en- arriving fixed h]avonets An oficar
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