The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-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 a 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
terial of foreign correspondentS-cen-
sors, officers, etc.-now form it's 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 c. confers with the
correspondents, explains the reports OF
the general staff, and gives out such
items of news as are available. In adj
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, men
who are permanently assigned to Ber-
I'm. The representatives Of American
IeWs associations, the special CORE
spondents of various American papers,,
as well as n number of Swedish, Dutch,
Rumanian. Spanish, Greek and Argen-
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the list.
Learn "Fate" of Stories"
The censors in the neutral press
Headquarters assume jurisdiction over
all dispatches of a military nature, and
all trips to the front are to be arranged
through the new department. Unlike
the censorship arrangements in man
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
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 thai 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 it impossible for
unauthorized person to represent him
self falsely as the correspondent of any
paper. A countersigned agreement, al
) so equipped with a photograph. serves
identification purposes.
, The agreement includes the stipula-
ton that the reporter will transmit in
,, formation secured by him through the
r 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 it that his paper or papers do no
misrepresent the 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.
1t 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. Thu
correspondents must promise hat 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 mar
from going home, if occasion requires
or from making a journey to a neutra
country. but merely to prevent hin
from doing what a few correspondent
have done during the war-travelin,
on the strength of a passport from
neutral country from one battle from
to another, on opposite sides of tn
struggle.