The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-09
lFTlNGD NEWS BRINGS TROUBLE
 IN WAR ZONES

{Correspondence of Associated Press
 Paris, Dec. 9.-Peculiar things hap Den to news in these days when it is So scarce and censors are so strict. paper into another, and when a. writer gets a story into print there is lio tell Ing under what date line, or whose naTnes it may reappear.
 One of the few graphic and au- thentfc stories from the front appear ed in an afternoon paper here on a recent Sunday. It was cabled to New York the same evening. The next day PaTis newspaper picked up the story ana that afternoon another paper did the same thing. Other papers, morn ing and afternoon, ran the story on Tuesday And then, on "Wednesday morning. an English newspaper print ed the item as a special despatch from the north of France over the signature of authentic war corre- spondent
 The incident is not so much an ex- demonstration of the Journalists trou-l ample of looae editorial work as a b1es during the war. Copy is scarce enough at best, and the censor ruins the best Of 1t while the staffs of all the Paris papers are decimated by the mobilization.
 Each copies from all the others and 6 story that passes observation today may catch the eye tomorrow. This applies to- the cenSor's staff as we'll, for an article approved in the morn ing is sometimes cut out in the after noon. One man with the official scissors sees one paragraph that will neA do His colleague passes the same arEtcle in another paper, but finds another objectionable paragraph that the other did not see
 c1enneneeau's rechristened paper. R Homme Hnchaine, recently con- tainsed the heading of an editorial Is It True?'' The rest of the column was blank and the public shall have to wait for the end of the war to know whether 1t is true or not.
 Tn another case a dangerous news Item was cut out but the head was overlooked It was a good head and, of course. contained the meat of the article. e as capricious as a pretty woman then proves it by giving details of certain incidents in which Ex-Minis- ter Ca1Ilaux and Madame Caillaux were concerned, but regarding which The censor had imposed a strict si- 1 Ienee Monster and Madame Caillaix appeared arm-in-arm on the boule- yard. and, were hooted. They went to a restaurant to dine and all the | otI1ar guests rose to leave. They went | into the garage where the requisi- | toned motor cars Of the military gov
 
 ed car, but the car was refused and 1 Ga1lieni approved the refusal. All E these incident, suppressed pitaless1y by f tn censor in Paris were passed in tflel Ec1aireur de Nice and now the CriI de Paris has had the chance to snug | of the censor who previously cut them out.
 The newspaper was one of the first institutions hit by the war With the first excitement circulation went up by leaps and bounds, while the nobiH- zation cut off sources of supply of pa per. Dai1ies that had not a good re- serve stock shrank at once from four pages to two, then from a full sheet some even appeared for weeks in quarter sheet size
 At the same time so many une1n-4 pIoyed men, women and children be came newBvendors. that Paris suffer ed for .. tie from riot of news The military government decided that 1t was too much for the nerves of Paris, end at the first sign that the situa-1 f&en was Becoming panicky, all ex- #raa were suppressed and the crying 0& newB or titles of newspapers pro- hEsted.
 The temporary disappearance Of the 1sEssstratsd journals was a severe blow and get cheap informadon and diver-j sion from the dozens Of periodicals displayed. 5
 The 'snlnstrations. the '.Annales." esRuv Blas," the "Cr1 de Paris 7 Lee &uxes pour ouss g sRise'' and tie Sais Toz1tT have reappeared, but nearly all the humorous weeklies are still ab- sent for obvious reasons. The car- toaxz1st is exercising his talent on war pos3ers, displayed for sale alongside voIuminouasseries of post cards. Some Of them are subtle in their satire, buz the war has benumbed the inspiration and wit of the French Journalist
 The afternoon calm of the Foou1e- yards is undtsturbed by the loud voiced newsboys, who seemed always 10 De making a desperate race for some unknown goal and trying to sell l. out their stock of sporting papers on tho wing. No racing killed the turf papers at the outset of hosti1ities All other sporting journals suspended and thus far only the Auto and Sport 1ng have resumed.
 Meanwhile new publications, born of the war-chronolog1cal, historical and photographic. are appearing nearly every day.
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