The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-11-03

lufllTeO III poSSlp4lltlCS llitul
against him.
Where War Zone Lies.
But not SO With the war correspond
ent of the Washington embassies.
The news he gamers comes often by
wireless, censored only by an Ameri-
can naval officer Of neutral persua-
sions,, and, as it is destined for an
embassy. is frequently transmitted
more speedily than the ordinary mes
sage over commercial wires.
The war zone III Washington snakes
it's way through most of the exclusive
thoroughfares, beginning with the
German embassy on Massachusetts
the Japanese embassy offices at 1910
n street Thence the trail
turns westward to Connecticut venue
and M street, where the British coat
of-arms is blazoned above the big
building owned by England. From
there the zone winds about the offices
of the Russian embassy at 1777
Church street, and then onward to
the French embassy at 246O 18th
street. Branching off the general line
of the zone are the Austro-Hungarian
embassy and that Of Belgium.
The general system of gathering
news Oh the "embaSSy run" since the
war has begun consists mainly of gar
nering such details of the war as
come in code messages direct to the
embassies and which are uncoded and
pretty generally placed at the dis
posal Of the newspapers, to be shot
into the various offices by the re-
porterS over the telephone. Occa-
~sionally the ambassadors themselves
have statements to make in their Of
fetal capacity, and not ~infrequently
they receive the newspaper men and
discuss, sometimes "conversationally''
(which term implies that the discus
| sim iS not for n,h1joo tinn-hn< n,0ct
times openly, various questions which
may arise in the newspapers of the
day from the actual scene Of war.
Should a rumor come from London,
as it has come frequently in the last
few weeks, that the Emperor Francis
Joseph has been dead for many days
and his death is being concealed for
+ fear Of the effect it might have upon
the tide of battle, it is the embassy
? war correspondents" duty to see as
, many of the ambassadors as he can
and learn whether they credit the ru-
NOR. Or If a message comes from
q some one Of the foreign capitals that
Emperor William is ready to enter
r tain proposals for mediation, the en-
bassy correspondent must run it
: down at this end of the line. And it
!, is for such work of this tina the man
: on the embassy run is chiefly useful.
The corps of embassy "War CORE
: spOndents' have gotten into the habit.
since the war began, Of making their
headquarters at the German embassy,
when they are not ION the beat max
ing a round Of the others; not that
;. they love Germany more than the
= rest Of n nations. for OF
the correspondents corps must OF
necessity be officially neutral. Yet
e Count Won Bernstorff, the German
ambassador, as we'll as the entire EN-.
baSsy staff, have exerted themselve:
&c to the greatest extent to make The
- newspaper men feel at home. Every
le telephone in the embassy has beer
thrown open to the newsgatherers
81 and when an item is given out a
scramble through the hot streets t.
T. reach a public "pay-as-you-enter' in
le Strument.
w In the big embassy hail, where tn
lie kilograms are made public-some
~ times as many as five or six a day
S two Of the employees Of the embassy
Rudolph Helm and julius Mannheim
er, are always on duty, and are eve
or ready'to do anything which will max
is the task of the newspaper men NOR
Id easily accomplished.
ST Count BernStOrf also takes a per
sonal interest in the ScribcS. When
s. ever he is in Washington-he ha
TT been spending most of his time /
OF New York since the war began-h
he stops and chats with the newspape
"a men as ne passes III anu OUT, anu iIe
he quently deIn~Ocratically brings tn
We kilograms to them himself. He is al
he ways ready to talk with the news
paper men on any matter Of new.
n and if he feels he cannot make Of
ne fetal statements upon the matter i
1ly hand, simply specifies that he is talk
by ing "cOnversatiOnally" n goes ahea
-er without the least fear that his cont
q dence will be abused.
ed AT the British embassy. the an
ng bassador, Sir Cecil Spring-Rice. ais
personally frequently receives tt
newspaper men in his big roomy O.
ry- flee, draped about with green hans
of ings and furnished in golden oak. FL
red the most part, the Hon. Ernest Scot
first secretary Of the embassy, attend
VS., to all statements given to the new
ed, papers and inquiries made by ther
at as we'll as handing out the inform;
ton contained in the code cablegran
or from London. which come address