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NEUTRAL VAR PRESS
HEADQUARTERS The
LATEST IN GERMANY
REGULATIONS IMPOSED UPON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COR
RESPONDENTS ARE EXCEED
INGLY STRINGENT, IN COM
MON WITH OTHER NEWS REP
REsENTATIvEs.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Berlin, Nov. 21.--For the purpose
Of facilitating the transmission pf
news from Germany to the neutral
outer world, the German general staff
has established Neutral War Press
Headquarters" through which 81
recognized and accredited correspond
ents in future will operate.
The new news bureau came into
existence during the last days Of Oc-
tober. Such members of the general
staff who have in the past been hand
ling the material Of foreign CORE
spondents censors, officers, ETC.
now form its personnel, and are quar-
tered in a building at Luisenstrassea
31A, few blocks away from the gen.
eral staff building.
Three times week it meets, that
| is to say, Major G. confers with
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, 4 composium of the foreign
news which concerns Germany and
the war.
Care has been taken to include in
the conferences only newspapermen
who represent established and recog-
nized papers, and, in the main, men
who are permanently assigned to Ber-
lin. The representatives Of Ameri-
can news associations, the special cor
respondents of various American pa
pers, as well as number of Swedish,
Dutch, Roumanian, Spanish, Greek
and Argentinean newspapermen are
| included in the list.
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 depart
ment. Unlike the censorship arrange
4 ments in many other countries, in
| this case the correspondents are kept
| exactly informed. of the 'fate" Of
their "stories." Two extra copies of
everything written must be submit
tied to the neutral press headquarters
censor. One of these he retains for
! reference. The other eventually is
returned to the writer, with annota-
lions showing just what changes, #
any, have been made in his copy.
To the end that an exact control
l.may be exercised over the various
tnewspaperfnens they have been asked
Ito sign an agrennent which is
Equipped with photograph Of the
writer. A duplicate Of this picture is
4 kent on file SO as to make it impos-
!. sible for any unauthorized person ia
represent himself falsely as the cor
j respondent Of any paper. A counter
| signed agreement, also equipped with
| photograph, serves identification
| purpose&
4 The agreement includes the stipu-
llation that the reporter viii transmit
| information secured by him through
1.-the press headquarters only to the
newspapers which he represents; that
| he will submit what he writes to the
| censor; that he will see toit that his
paper or papers do not misrepresen'
the contents Of his articles by means
! Of false Of misleading headlines, adj
ditions or omissions; and that he vii
| furnish headquarters with two copies
/ Of the paper or papers which print
what he has written.
II also stipulates that the newspa
perman shall publish no pictures
without the permission of the censor
and that he shall in addition turn il
two extra copies for the files. o.
trips to the front the direction o.
officers in charge is to be followet
unquestioningly. The correspondent
must promise that they will not leav'
Germany before the end of the wa
except with the express permission
Of the press headquarters. This las
stipulation, it is pointed out, is no
intended to restrict any man from
going home, if occasion requires, o
from making journey to a neutra
country, but merely TO prevent hin
ii from doing what a few correspond
4 ents have done during the war
/ travelling on the strength of q pass
| port from neutral country fror
one battlefront to another, on oppo
site sides of the struggle.
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