The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-19
GERMANY BREAKS
 BAN ON SECRECY TO REINSTATEMENT
New Press Bureau Gives Facts of Great War to Whole
 World.

Berlin Nov. 19-For the purpose of
 facilitating the transmission of news
 from Germany to the neutral outer
 world, the German General Staff has
 established q Neutral War Press
 F Peadquarters, through which all 31
 recognized and accredited correspond
 ents in future will operate.
 The new news bureau came into ex-
 istance during the last days of Octo-
 Der. Sucha members of the General Staff who have in the past been hand
 ling the material of foreign cores
 ondents-censor Officers, etc.,-now form it's personnel, and are chartered
 in a building at Luisenstrasse 31A, a
 few blocks away from the General
 Staff building.
 Three times a week it meets, that is
 to say, Major G. eonfers with the
 correspondents, explains the reports
 of the General Staff and gives out such items of news as are available.
 In addition there. isf issued, daily, a
 composiann of the foreign news which
 corte eerns Germany and the war
 Care has been ta<en to include in
 the conferences Ronly newspapermen
 who represent esta b1ished and ,yrecog-'
 nized papers, and, in the. main, men
 who are perrnent1y assigned to Ber-
 fin. The representatives of American
 news associations, the special cores i pondents of various American papers.
 well as a number of Swedish Dutch i Runanian, Spanish Greek and Argen- i tinean newspa permen are included in I the list.
 The censors in the, neutral press I headquarters assume juridfction over ] all dispatches of a military nature and ! all trips to the front are to'be arrang= ca through this new department. -Un- ! like the censorship arrangements in many other countries, in this case the X correspondents are kept exactly in i formed of the fate" of their stories i Two extra copies of every thing writ ] ten must be submitted to the neutral i press headquartersS censor. z One of
 these he retains for reference. The, other is evenually returned to the writ CT, with annotadons showing just what changes, if any. have been made ! in his copy.
 To the3 end that an exact control over the various newspapermen, they have been asked to sign an agreement which is equipped with a photograph of the writer. A duplicate of this pie sture is kept on file so as to make it l impossible for any unauthorized per- son to represent himself falsely as the correspondent of any paper. A count ersigned agreement, also equipped1 with a photograph, serves identifica- ton purposes
 The agreement includes th@ stipu- 1ation that the reporter will transmit Information secured by him, through the press headquarters. only to the newspaper Or newspapers which he represents: that she will submit what lie writes to the censor; that he will see to it that his paper or papers do not rnisr epresent the contents of his articles by means of false or sn1islead- ing headlines, additions or omissi ons, and that he will furnish headquarters with two copies of the paper or papers (which print what he has written. + It also stipu1ates that the newspa- permen shall publish no pictures with out the permission of the censprs, and that he shall in addition turn in two extra copies for the files. On trips to the front the direction, of the officers are to be followed unquestionably. The correspondent must promise that they will not leave Germany before the end of the war except with the express permission of the press head quarters This last stipulation, it is pointed out, is not intended to restrict any man from going home, if oc-- casion requires, or from making journey to a neutral country, but merely prevent him from doing what other correspondents have been doing. during the< war-traveling on the strength of passport from a neutral country from one battlefield to an other. on opposite sides of the strug- irrIc