The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1915-11-25
GERMANY IMPOSES
NEW PRESS RULES
CensorS Demand Correspond
entS Guarantee Publication
of Articles as Sent
Penalty Provided.

Berlin. Nov. 22.-For the purpose Of
facilitating the transmission of news
from Germany to the neutral outer
world. the German general staff has es-
tablished Neutral War Press Head
quarters" through which 81 recognized
and accredited correspondents in flu
ture will operate.
The new news bureau came into ex-
istence during the last days Of October.
Such members Of the general staff who
have in the past been handling the ma
tertal OF foreign correspondents-cen-
sors, officers, etc.-now form its per-
sonnet, and are quartered in a build
ing at Luisenstrasse 31A, a few blocks
away from the general staff building
Three times a week 1t meets, that
is to say, Major G. confers with the
correspondents, explains the reports Of
the general staff. and gives out such
items of news as are available In ad-
dition II ere is issued, daily, a COM
postum of the foreign news which con-
Germs Germany and the war.
Care has been taken to include in
the conferences only newspaper men
who represent established and recog-
niZed papers, and, in the main, meA
who are permanently assigned to Ber>
i'm. The representatives of American
news associations, the special CORE
Spondents of various American papers,
as well as number of Swedish, Dutch,
Rumanian, Spanish, Greek and Argen-
tinean newspaper men are included in
the list.
Learn Fate" Of Stories"
The censors in the neutral press
+ headquarters assume Jurisdiction over
all dispatches of military nature, and
all trips to the front are to be arranged
through the new department. Unlike
the censorship arrangements in many
other countries, in this case the cor
respondents are kept exactly informed
of the fate OF their Stories Two
extra copies of everything written
must be submitted to the neutral press
headquarters censor One Of these he
retains FOR reference. The other event
ually is returned to the writer. with
annotations showing just what
changes, If any, have been made in his
copy.
To the end that an exact control may
be exercised over the various news
papermen, they have been asked to
sign an agreement which is equipped
with a photograph OF the writer. A
duplicate of this picture Is kept ON file
so as to make 1t impossible for any
unauthorized person to represent him
self falsely as the correspondent OF any
paper. A countersigned agreement, al
so equipped with q photograph, serves
Identification purposes.
The agreement includes the stipula-
ton that the reporter VIII transmit IN
formation secured by him through tho
press headquarters only to the news
paper or newspapers which he repre-
sents; that he will submit what he
writes to the censor; that he will see
to II that his paper or papers do not
misrepresent tho contents OF his
articles by means of false or mislead-
ing headlines, additions or omissions,
and that he will furnish headquarters
with two copies of the paper or papers
which print what he has written.
It also stipuates that the newspaper
man shall publish no pictures without
the permission Of the censor, and that
he shall in addition turn in two extra
copies for the files. On trips to the
front the direction of officers in charge
is to be followed unquestionably. The
correspondents must promise that they
will not leave Germany before the end
of the war except with the express
permission Of the press headquarters.
This last stipulation, it Is pointed out,
is not intended to restrict any man
from going home. If occasion requires.
or from making Journey to a neutral
country, but merely to prevent him
from doing what few correspondents
have done during the war-travefinY
on the strength of a passport from n
neutral country from one battle front
to another. on opposite sides Sf tho
struggle.