Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-01
CORRESPONDENTS PLACED
 UNDER RESTRICTIONS

pose of facilitating the transmission
 of news from Germany to the neutral outer world, the German General
 Staff has established a Neutral War
 Press Headquarters" through which 21 recognized and accredited cores pondents in future will operate.
 The news bureau came into exist
 ence during the last day of October.
 Such members of the general staff
 who have in the past been handling
 the material of foreign eorrespon'
 dents--censors, officers, etc.-now form its personnel, and arc quartered in building at Luisenstrasse 3iA, few blocks away from the general staff building.
 Three time week it meets, that is to say, Major G-- confers with the correspondents, explains the .e- ports of the general staff, and gives out such items of news as are avail able. In addition there is issued, daily, composium of the foreign news which concerns Germany and the war.
 Care has been taken to include in the conferences only newspaper men who represent established and recognized papers, and, in the main, men who are permanently assigned to Berlin. The representatives of American news associations, the spc- cial correspondents of various Amer ican papers, as well as d number of Swedish, Dutch, Runanian, Spanish, Greek and Argentinean newspaper men are included in the list.
 The eensors in the neutral press headquarters assume jurisdiction over all dispatches of a military nature. and all trips to the front are to De ar ranged through the new department. Unlike the censorship arrangernents in many other countries, in this case the correspondents are kept exactly informed of the fate" of their "stor- .ies." Two extra copies of everything written must be submitted to the tieu- tral press headquarters censor One of these he retains for reference. The other eventually is returned to the writer, with annotatio1s showiugjast what changes, if any, have been made in his copy. a
 To the end that an exact control may be exercised over the various newspapermcn, they have bccn asked so sign an agreement which is equipped with a photograph of the writer. A duplicate of this pictqre is kept on file so as to make it i'm. possible for any unauthorized person to represent himself falsely as the cor respondent Of any paper. A counter signed agreement, also equipped wish photograph, serves identification purposes.
 The agreement includes the stipC- lation that the reporter will transmit information secured by him through the press headquarters only to the newspaper or newspapers waich he represents; that he will submit what he writes to the censor; that he will sec to it that his paper or papers do not misrepresent the contents of his article by means of false or niisleai- ing headlines, additions or omissions and that ne will furnish Headquarters with two copies Of the paper or papers which print what he has written.
 It also stipulatcs that the newspa- pcrs shall publish no pictures without the permission of the censor, and that he shall in addition turn in two copies for the files. On trips to the front the direction of officers in charge is to be followed uhquestioningly. The correspondents must promise that they will not leave Germany before the end of tine war except with the express permission of the press head quarters. This last stipulation, it is pointed out, is not intended to restrict my man from going home, if occa- sion requires, or from making a jou1. ley to neutral country, but merely 10 prevent him from doing what a few correspondents have done dur ng the war-traveling OH the strength of passport from a neutral country rom one battlefront to another, OF opposite sides of the struggle.