The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-04-26
PRESS
NE n FEARLESS
BEFOR Deaf H
FEATS OF DARING IN EU-
ROPE WHILE GATHERING
WAR NEWS.
WORK WHILE WOUNDED
Bombed, Bayoneted, Hurled in Icy
Streams, Buried Under Ruins of
Shell-Wrecked Ramparts, and
Wounded by Rifle Bullets.

Wounded by Rifle Bullets.
New York, April 26.-Thc report
of the board of director, OF the .
Associated Press this year is CON
sidered OF such unusual interest as
to warrant publication. 1t refers
among other things to the expert |.
ences Of some Associated Press men
in the foreign service, and in max
ing this part public the board au-
thorized the insertion in parenthe-
scs OF the names OF the men con
ccrned.
The report follows;
To the members Of the Associat-
ed Press
Ir earlier reports we have en-
deayored to summarize briefly the
most important news events of the
year. We make no such attempt
this year. There have been months
during which more cpoch-making
news has developed than during
some previous years, and all news
paper men must wonder whether
we shall ever return to former
standards of news values,
Nor do we enlarge in this report
upon the news gathering achieve
ments of the organization.
Success Under Great Difficulties.
With those achievements have
come many inevitable disappoint-
ments. Ovcrtaxed cables, muddlcd
censorships and similar eXigcncies
Of war often have upset our plans,
and frequently, neutralized the re
sourccfulncss of our staff Yet we
have incomparably the most COM
prehensive machinery for collecting
and distributing news that the world
has ever known
OF our men abroad, we gratefully
acknowledge our appreciation. Tor
pedoes and mines at sea and shot
and shell on land have held no fears
for them. Their escapes amid dan
gers have been countless.
One Crank NJ. America was
knocked down by Zeppelin bomb
III London, but worked all that night
as usual-mcrely an incident OF the
days work in an office building
which has itself been hit by such
shells.
Another (Robert T. SmalD fell
into the icy Somme, but rode IS
miles to cable the story OF the first
American in Peronne.
Buried AS Castle Falls.
Another (Charles T. Thompson)
was on the highest rampant of the
Castle of Gorilla when a shell bur
led it and him under earth, but on
that afternoon he wrote a story
which thrilled the press Of Europe
as well as of the United States.
Another (Water Whiffen) was
shot in the knee on a Russian OBJ
servation post.
Another (Charles s. Smith after
a bayonet and fist encounter at
Harbin, escaped with painful lacera-
tions.
Another Games Hickey was
blown through a glass door by the
Halifax explosion, but before dress
ing his wounds was resourceful
enough to find in a demolished
building the terminus of the cable
to the West Indies, and by way
of Bermuda and Havana to New
York, sent the first direct messages
out Of Halifax.
Such incidents are not unusual in
the service of your organization.
World Respects Associated Press
Throughout the years The Asso-
ciated Press has, by maintaining its
standards Of accurate reporting, pre-
served the best traditions of Jour
nalism. The good name of The As
sociated Press has not been i'm.
paired. The public confidence il
our dispatches has steadily growr
until millions of readers now heSi.
tate to give credence to many pub.
lished reports until assured that
they were carried by our association
The sensational Zimmerman not,
with its report OF diplomatic in,
trigue in Mexico was universally &C.
cepted as genuine because The As,
sociated Press said it was. TIL,
bombardment of Paris at long rang,
was ridiculed by other press asso
Citations and by ordnance experts
but the Paris bureau of The Asso
ciated Press, which for two day
alone reported this startling devel
opmcnt of the war to American
readers, convinced the skeptica
quite as thoroughly as did the OF
ficial confirmation of its report.
, That Dutch Ship Seizure.
5 When the governments action ii
taking over the Dutch ships il
| American harbors was reported il
= Europe several chancellories in
= quired in European capitals wheth