The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-11-21

-
Give Away Military Secrets in
Casual Cow tons,
Says coIresp Ondelt.
Now YORK. Nov. 20. Ii we should
| get into q war the frst thing this soy.
lernment should do would be to in-
tern. and therefore. SILENCE about fifty
society women Of Washington and
| points east by north! This ststemsns.
Enade not at all in criticism BY mere
IslyI 4 friendly hint ON preparedness,
CONES from Frederick Palmer. tsesa
from I'D trenches, correspondent on
maii MaFss human encyclopedia of
war Wedge gathered from bal ].
|: field dreadnopg htt and drawing room.
The TIN drawing room phase Of
the tsffitlc now raging is an an
Isle which has mot, hitherto, been
made much % True, as Mr.. Palm srt
tells US, signs are placed conspt 81
|sously IN, railway stations, hotel l0t-
sbies and theaters in Great Britain .e-
mind lng tite public to @be silent, keep
all Inflammation to yourself. some one
may he listening. q
4 Hnt this and many other
precautions against careless talk ST.
ious leaks; have occurred which tlia
war Office finally traced to the social
leader In her drawing room.
shgiis W omen Loyal.
y =. = you I'm not blaming or lcrit-
sic.sing kfllese women, = cautions wealth
Or brow ned war correspondent Palm5l
!er. men OF England are mig
'nitiesnt loyal. Many OF them have
.repo npced social life. Practically ALL
OF Them are ma king sacrifices.
slst5it 1t iii in the nature Of woman
tor life training has not
been such as to make her guarded In,
speech. likeSthe average British man.
sNep,ans is hatar rally social. 1t is her
dob 10 entertain Ito put IA touch of
ectionate elligent human inter-
est into her ID Cations as home keeper
hid hostess.
II Is quite natural for hersto say tol
jsonie, friend over the telephone; AMI
how do yo, do, dear: Alas, i too, am
alone In tile S1ibuse. George has gone
Ihgith his resnsont to the Dardanelles.
was ordered frat I'd Shore
han Picked 5000 men. And
Mrs Siiiit Brother and both her: sons
have gone With a detachment to Flan-
ssders. unl srstand they're to be in
THE eigkborh od of y. ~ etc.
Cause pfs I'll s.t1uIS1
ere IRE u Hen this
otniati ION Gan be passed on tt may
|igo 10 fira her dsc al may straight
1 % The waiting eae i'll eafs 0f body
some here WHO III tss 6 the adj
vantage IL En- nd y enemy. There
have been many cases Of trouble since
the war began which have been traced
to this source. ~ y
~ also knew Of a case where an
innocent and neutral traveller near
Mons told his wife, i had a thrilling;
time. yesterday. Witnessed "a. battle
from q church steeple: had distinct.
view OF ;both sidesy could see how the
Troops ;5haneuverad and from whence
the reinforcements came
Ts..elext day that steeple was blown
% atoms by tho Germans, and several
others III nearby villages were treated
the same way. I mention this as an
instance i personally know Of the dan
ger OF careless speech or writing..s
- Had six Pnssp6rts.
Some idea OF the safeguard snr-
rounding the movements of troops can
Fbe had, from the fact that although
Frederick Palmer was an authorized
ana ,aa.sy privileges correspondent he
had To get SIX different kinds Of PASS
PORTS in order 10 get from London to
the scene ns his arst actual fight,
Censorship. too. Is rig,d,y followed.
So rigidly, in fact. that ii excited 'pop-
ular Imagination TO d harmful degrea
"A wordsswould trickle out from some
mysterious source, This would Le
passed along. frequently BY The draw
ing room route until d seerliingIy al
thentic story WIS I,,eced 4orethess,
Many titssof apparently valuable M
formation came thus toythe military
commander, costing niuca time, non.
cy and strengths before tl,ev we've 9rt,n