Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-04-22
NEWS TREND SOUTH
HOW THE "A. P" AIDS
THE so. AMERICANS

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preponderant current of world news
has moved for centuries, like the
course of empire, from east to west,
but in recent years it has taken a
new direction-from north to
south-to the worlds new empire,
South America"
This new phenomenon in the
movement of news was described in
radio address tonight from WIZ
by Meredith N. Stiles, in telling how
news Is sent to South American
newspapers by The Associated
Press. Mr.. Stiles is the head of its
Latin-American department.
ut was not until after the war
that this flow of news southwark
became important" he said. with
their peoples profoundly stirred by
its outbreak, South American news
papers found their facilities made
quate to meet the demand for in
formation about it. BY makeshifts
and at heavy costs they got the
news from one source or another,
but when the war was over, they
cast around for more efficient means
of obtaining world news.
This is why The Associated Press
since 1919 has maintained a large
news service to the South American
countries. The Associated Press re-
sponded to their need and a group
of South American newspapers were
admitted to membership in it's CO.
operative organization. AS a con-
sequence these newspapers are now
receiving daily through The AS
ISOLATED Press enough news to fill
two newspaper pages, providing
them with a comprehensive report
of important and interesting events
in all parts of the world.
1T is nothing in these days that
Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina,
where the farthest south newspapers
are served, is 5000 miles farther
from the sources of world news than
is New York. Ordinary news dis
patches make the journey from the
New York office of The Associated
Press to newspaper offices in RuenoS
Aires in from one to two hours
over the lines of the America
Cables. What we call in newspaper
parlance bulletins, telling of high
ly important or sensational occur
rences, will be delivered in Buenos
Aires in from five to fifteen minutes.
when Luis Angel Firpo and Jack
Dempsey had their little affair at
the Polo Grounds three years ago,
an excited mob that had gathered
that night in front of the bulletin
board of the newspaper LA NACION
of Buenos Aires. learned within two
minutes after the blow was deliver
ed that their pugilistic idol had
knocked the Yankee champion COM
pletely out of the ring. The mes
sage which spelled to the Argen-
tines the hope that Dempsey was
done for and Eirpo champion of the
world. was flashed by an Associat-
ed Press telegraph operator at the
ringside to the New York Office of
The All-America Gables over a
special wire and instantly speeded
the bottom side of the globe.
"Firpo knocks Dempsey through
ropes 1t read. The electric cur
rent carried it out under the Gulf
Stream and down along the Atlantic
Coast and across the Caribbean
Sea to Balboa. Here it jumped the
ISthmus of Panama into the Pacific,
and then, coursing under the Hum
boldt current, but darling now and
then to the South American coast as
it followed it's submarine conductor,
it reached Valparaiso, the principal
seaport of Chile. Here it leaped by
automatic relay to a land line which
slipped it aloft 1000 feet over the
top Of the Andres, thence down to
the Argentine pampas and across
them thousand miles to Buenos
Aires, where from the cable office
there 1t was flashed by another
special wire into the Office of the
LA NACION. A man with a mega
phone did the rest.
THE mighty uproar of shouts and
cheers that followed that thrilling
incident in the New York stadium |
had not reached it's crescendo be- |
fore another uproar burst forth |
from the thousands who on that |
night packed the streets of Buenos |
Aires waiting for The Associated |
Press to tell them how Jared the |
fight for the worlds championship. !
Indeed 1t might be said that all /
South America joined in the shout
ing, for that message in it's journey
was copied and delivered to news
papers wherever the cable touches
the coast as it loops it's way down .
to Valparaiso, in Panama, Columbia. !
Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile. /
From Buenos Aires it was relayed to |
Brazil
1T is thus that the news of The |
Associated Press is delivered in |
South America. Spanish language |
papers in Porto Rico are also serv.
ed by this same cable. Cuban |
papers and Mexican papers are serv- |
ed by telegraph, while in the far off !
Philippines Spanish and English |
language papers are flashed the news !
through the air from The Associat- |
ed Press office in San Francisco.
I'm all. forty of the leading news
papers of Latin America learn what |
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