Arizona republican., 1916-03-09
NEW QUARTERS l. FUR RTHEFRENCH
 PRESS SERVICE
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 PARIS, March S.-The "Maison de la ! Presse" or the Home of the Press" is | the name given to an elegant new | apartment building in the Rue Francois ! that now shelters the war press service for France. All transactions between the government and representatives of the press, local and foreign, are done there, excepting the censorship of news. The service has been installed in these more commodious quarters in order to bring about more satisfactory relations between the press and the government and between the press and the army.
 Though the news censorship is kept apart, the war films are shown there for the first time and examined by the military authorities. Everything else concerning the publicity and propa- ganda of the war is centered there. in cluding the photographic service. There are separate departments for the French press and for the foreign press. with commodious waiting rooms and work rooms for journalists; there is d department on diplomatic information and department on military informa-
  eign office and the latter to the war office; it is there the war correspond ent must go for the rare and persist ently sought permit to approach the field of military operations.
 Correspondents permits are given out in patches of six or less at a time and there are about two trips of maxi mum of four days each every month on the average. Since there are up- wards of a hundred or more regular American and English newspaper cor respondents waiting their turn, to say nothing of authors, artists intermittent and special writers of all kinds, with considerable number of Italian Span ish, Russian Swedish, South Ameri- can, Norwegian and Swiss correspond ents, it is d great school of patience to the ardent journalist.
 The period of waiting is not devoid of heartburnngs for the correspondent who was here "befOre the war" and has held the fort ever since. He often sees Special" man who arrived in the morning going out with party to the front the same or the following day.
 
 sons that are best known to the French foreign office but are supposed to be chiefly psychological. The old war horses have become a little worn; tho new arrival with a fresh face comes 1 in with a more optimistic view of the situation and he generally has some new argument to prove that he is the one man predestned to be the proper exponent of the situation in France to the American public. He has the fur | ther advantage of never having yet had occasion to complain that the time | is long between trips.
 l It requires something like hundred capable men, in large proportion Paris | newspapermen. mobiliZed and detailed | by the general staff to do this work There are among them such cOnspic uous representatives of the Paris press as Monsieur Robert de Jouvenel. ed itor- in chief of the Matin; Monsieur l Chaumeix, one of the members of the editorial staff of the Journal Des De bats; Monsieur Rene Puaux. a war correspondent and a member of the special staff of the Temps.
 There are also a number of men from the diplomatic service detailed to look after the propaganda of the war 1 to the limited extent that France has engaged in such work, but chiefly to take care of the wants of correspond ents of foreign newspapers. This serv l ice is under the immediate direction of Monsieur Henri POnsOt, man of con siderable experience in the consular and diplomatic service abroad, and possessing the energy required in deal | ing with the mass of detail connected with the desire of so many correspond 1 ents to be all at the same time on the l firing line. Associated with Monsieur | Ponsot in this work is Monsieur G. E.. dAnglade, former consul general at 1 New York.
 All these services are under the gen eral direction of Monsieur Gauthier, se- lected by the government for general supervision of all the affairs connected with the press
 The correspondent who has complied with the regulations adopted at the be- ginning of the war has medical cer-