The Columbia evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1920-1923, 1922-10-16
RETREAT MADE
IN BORROWED
AUTOMOBILE
Duke Parry Tells How His Par
tyLed Flight of Routed
Men From Chinese
Battlefield.
COURTESY COMES FIRST
American Rule, Get News No
Matter What Happens"
No Good in japanese
Journalism.

The manner M which the japan
Advertiser. the English-lnaguage daily OF
Toxic. received the news af the asSas.
sination Of Hara. the japanese premier,
las, November was told today by Duke n.
Parry, a graduate OF the School OF jour
nalism. Parry has been on the staff OF
the Advertiser for two years and hall,
and has returned to Columbia 10 remain
for two months before again sailing for
Japan. He will head the International
News Service bureau in the Far East upon
his return.
we had an old japanese janilor who
kept the fire stirred up in our office stove,
he said. This particular November
evening il was rather chilly. and the old
man seemed more energetic than ever in
his efforts TO make the fire blaze. He
kept making savage thrusts at the Goals.
as if he were sticking a dagger into some
one. lie accompanied these imaginary
dagger-thrusis with the words. 'Hara-san-
eri.ma-sen.' The fellows who were stand
ing around thought the old man was aci-
ing queerly. and asked him to repeat what
he was mumbling to himself. He did 50.
'Harl Is done for wls what he had been
saving. and the boys became interested
Immediately. Here was what appeared to
be story that would make the world
center attention on Toxic.
a grand rush was made into the room
where the japanese interpreters were
iranslaiing news from japanese papers
They we're calmly discussing the assassi-
nation, as they wen; about their business
apparently unaware that in the report
they had received was an event Of world
moment.
Snaiching up the bulletin one man
rushed to the cable Office, and soon the
news was speeding toward New York and
San Francisco.
POLICE WATCH NEWSPAPERS
A police official goes over the papers
printed in Japan daily for news that is
not considered by the police as proper
To print, Parry explained; and, if a pa
per has printed an objectionable article.
ii is suppressed. all copies Of that edition
being conhscated Often a whole days
publication is forbidden.
The newspaper reporter is often
treated as a distinguished person in Ja-
pan-that is. the American newspaper re-
porter" Parry said. Every considera-
tion is extended to him. Even the nobil-
itv in Japan are eager to have what they
say published by the newspapers. The
native reporter is treated with less con-
sideration."
In America,.he said, the rule is 20 get
all the news, no matter what happens"
but in Japan much thought is given to
courtesy and reporter would never think
Of pressing questions if the story gave
premise of scandal or sensationalism that
would injure someone.
Courtesy comes first in journalism in
Japan" said Parry. land then persis-
ience.'
NpfLhtD AhiNEHL
When the armies Of Chang-so-lin and
Wu-Peifu clashed near Peking the early
part of the year, Parry went over as
for the Public Ledger
Syndicate. A Chinese student in Peking.
a Harvard graduate and friend of Parry,
loaned him and several other correspond
ents his Ford touring car 50 that they
might cover the eighteen miles from Pc
king to the battle lines south Of the city
in time TO watch the fighting The cor
were given due respect due
TO the fact that they carried the Ameri-
can flag, and were permitted to 90 10 the
from, lines.
They got into some rather tight places,
Parry said; and when the bullets began
10 rip up the ground close by and Chang
so-lins forces showed signs of weakening,
the correspondents voled 10 return as
soon as possible TO Peking. Then Chang
so-lin's men broke and ran and Parry and
his friends had the excitement Of retreat
ing in an automobile, pursued by hostile
,ullets. They far oui-distanced the sol
liers, who. Parry ventured to remark,
would have given all they had for even
a Ford. I
The correspondents in Peking agreed .
that their work was not done until they .
had interviewed General Wu-Pei-fu. the
hero of the hour Later they went TO
Paolingfu, Wuis headquarters, not far
from Peking. They asked for permission .
to see him. never for a moment doubling
hat the general world have them wait
outside for an inierminably long time ,
md then tell them he was too busy to talk
They were surprised when the general
sent word that they must come in at once
and moi wait until the following morning
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