Bisbee daily review., 1915-11-25
RESTRICTION PLACED ON
 NEWS
American Cores DondentS at Der lin Placed Under Rigid Restric- tionS; No Change in Original Copy Can Be Made.

Copy Can Be Made.
 BERLIN, Nov. 2i-For the purpose of facilitating the transmission of news from Germany to the neutral Iouter world, the German General Staff has established Neutral War Press Headquarters" through which 21 re- cognized and accredited correspond- ents 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 correspondents -censors. officers, etc.-now form its personnel, and are quartered in a building at Luisenstrasse 31A, a few blocks away from the general staff building
 Three times week it meets. that is to say. Major C. confers with i the correspondents, explains the re- ports of the general staff, and gives out such items of news as are avail able. In addition there is issued, daily a compossium of the foreign news which concerns Germany and the war
 Care has been taken to include fin the conferences only newspaper men who represent established and recognized papers, and, in the main, men who are permanently assisgned fn H.aN .n American news associations, the spe- ' cial correspondents of variouss Amer ican papers, as we'll as a number of Swedish, Dutch, Rumanian, Spanish, Greek and iArgentinean newspaper men are included in the list.
 The censors in the neutral press headquarters assume jurisdiction over all dispatches of a military nature, and all trips to the front are 10 be ar ranged through the new department. Unlike the censorship arrangements in many other countries. in this case the correspondents are kept ova-'ly informed of the Hate" of their "stor. ! ies" Two extra copies Of everything written must be submitted to the neu- tral press headquarters censor. One of theses he retains for reference. The other eventually 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 newspapermen, they have been asked 10 sisgn an agreement which is equipped with a photograph of the writer. A duplicate of this picture Is kept on file SO as to make it i'm. possible for any unauthorized person Ito represent himself falsely as the cor. respondent of any paper A counter signed agreement also equipped with
 a photograph, serves identification
 purposes.
 The agreement includes the stipu.
 lation that the reporter will transmit
 information secured by him through
 the press headquarters only to the
 newspaper or newspapers which hC
 represents; that he will submit what
 he writes to the censor; that he will see to it that his paper or papers dc D not misrepresent the contents of his articles by means of false or mislead ing headlines, additions or omissions
 and that he will furnish headquarteri } with tow copies of the paper or pa pers which print what he has writ
 ten
 It also stsipulates that the newspa
 pers shall publish no pictures withou , the permission of the censor, and tha
 he shall in addition turn in wto copie D for the files. On trips to the iron b the direction of officers in charge il
 to be followed unQuestioningly Tn correspondents must promise tha they will not leave Germany befor t the end of the war except with tn a express permission of the pres headquarters This last stipulation p it is pointed out, is not intended ( g restrict any man from going home, d accasion requires or from making journey to a neutral country, lou merely 10 prevent him from doin y what a few correspondents have don B. during the war-traveling on tn N. strength of a passport from a neutri
 country from one battlefront to al 'i other, on opposite sides of the stru
 gle.