Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-12-26

| Ell PASO. Tex. Dec. 2o.-From the
Carranza headquarters yesterday. In
! the name OF his government. was is
sued a manifesto repudiating and de
claring void any contract Of any ma
ture whatsoever entered into by the
convention government, as backed by
the arms Of Pancho Villa.
Il run every time | see an officer.
Two days before he had managed tC
get to Dunkirk. There he was talkine
with a pair OF priyates when he say
their faces change. Some one was
coming UP behind him. He did not
turn and give the show away. He said
goodby hurriedly and walked between
a pair OF freight cars. Good fortune
led the engineer to begin shunting the
cars about before the officer had con
WINGED himself by questioning the
Tonmics that the runaway was really
reporter. By that time he was safe
There are perhaps 40 or 50 English
reporters scattered through these
French coast towns. The Eng
lish staff has list OF 30 of them. As
placed under arrest. -
They got me at Arras." said the re.
porter. Il didn't have a chance there.
Half "A dozen of the staff knew me.
One of 'em belongs to my club in
London. / hadn't been in town an
hour before they picked me up"
Orders from the English war office
are. that, so far as possible, no news
Whatever of this war shall be printed
except the official communicates.
Doubtless Gen. Kitchener has his rea-
sons. He probably realizes that If the
world knewaghat cruel slaughter is go
ing on at the front there would be an
effective protest against the continu-
ance of the war. Doubtless, too, re-
cruiting might be interfered with. Be.
yond any question, too, Kitchener has
the war officials point of view. Civil
ians have no rights, except that of pay.
ing bills and being fed to guns. War
correspondents are an especially loath-
some form of civilian.
Il was under arrest" said the re-
porter. land in cell for time. Rot
ten cell. Damp straw. Some one else
had been there before me. Didn't have
much to eat for day."
Getting War Photographs. r
He was sent back to London, but he
was not compelled to sign a promise
not to write more news Of the war.
So that as soon as he had eaten and
slept and bathed, enough to make up
arrearages he returned to the qualified
front. Every day he meets his fellow
reporters at the cafes in the coast
towns. They compare what they have
learned from priyates and wounded
men during the day. Then they write
stories from "a town in France" They
do not want to cheat. But they must,
or else accept the war office dictum
that the world shall not know what
is going on. ST..
MY photographer has had his trou-
bles, too" said the reporter. but he
hasn't been arrested, He has merely
been kept ON the rum =
Several, at least, of the London pa
pers start their photographers out
from base camps with cheap cameras
and $50 in money. II they are arrest
ed the soldiers smash their cameras.
The photographers must get them
selves out the best way they can. The
paper will not aid. If they get photo
graphs they are given another $50
and sent out again. If they do not
they are sent home. 1t is wearing on
photographers, and 1t 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 automo-
bile. They made him walk six or
seven miles into town, between men
carrying fixed bayonets. An officer
drove the car in, and not being very
good driver the car was not bettered.
Then he was held in cell before he
was sent back to London. Edgar Now
rer was caught by the French, turned
over to the English, and sent from
post to post under guard until he final
~ appeared in London. But he wasn't
ill-treated. Neither was he 'overfed.
The Belgians are the boys for us,
said the reporter They are all for
us. They realized that the press has
placed Belgium's case before the world
and they appreciate it. Any Belgian
will protect a reporter, If he can. The
English are worst OF all.
There is a Scotch reporter for a
London paper who has reported half
4 dozen wars. He said the other day
hat he was going to give up and go
home.
II do not mind danger or discom-
,ort," said he, but the English OFF,
,ers haze apparently been given or
lers to insult us. They have not tried
20 arrest me because | am known to
hem. But the very men I know turn
heir backs when they see me COM
ng. 1t is as though l were pariah.
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