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[BY “ THE TIMES" SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT]
WITH THE FRENCH AMY, Oct, 8th,
I visited yesterday a section of the Somme battlefield where the French arid English have advanced side by side to the line which, they now hold firm and are still pushing forward. To get thero we drove through part of the stationary British Lamp and part of the British Army (only a fraction of the whole) in motion: The sight, to people who are not used to it, is a thrilling oue.
NEWSPAPER PRISONERS,
STRANGE POSITION OF NEUTRAL
WRITERS IN BERLIN.
THE BULLYING OF THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR.
A
In the following article, Mr. Curtin describes in detail the German methods of influencing neutral opinion through the Press. Germany is known to be sponding many millions on this for reaching propaganda, to which she attaches such great importance, and the article gives a lively impression of the measures employed, and of the position of the American correspondents who receive special favours from the German authorities, but are, in effect,news paper prisoners,"
California. Persons unfriendly to him Daily News, and James O'Donnell Bea assert that he is really a native of Prus nett of the Chicago Tribune. One of sia, who went to the United States when these spoon-fed, correspondents recently. & child. Wherever he was born, you undertook to compile a book on Belgium Wiegand is now typically American. He in war time for the purpose of white- speaks German imperfectly, and with an washing Germans in American estima- unaistakable Transatlantic accent. Hetion. Accompanied by his wife, he was is hookseller by origin, and his little notored and wired and dined through shop in San Francisco wre wiped out by the conquered country under the watchful the earthquake. About 45 years of age, chaperonage of German officers. He has von Wiegand is a man of medium build, returned to Berlin to write his book, conspicuously near-sighted, wears inor-although it is common knowledge there dinately thick Teddy Roosevelt, eye that during his catire stay in Belgium glasses, Westerner of unusually affable Belgian.
and is in his whole bearing a he was not permitted to talk to a singlo Although nominally entered to and personality. You Wiegrand claims, when taunted with being a Press agent of the fawned upon by the German authorities, German Government, that he is nothing the American correspondents cut on tho but an enterprising correspondent of the whole humiliating figure, although not I did not find this all of them realize it. It is notorious New York World, opinion of himself fully shared in Gerthey are spied jipon day and night. They many There are many people who will are even at times ruthlessly scorned by Our chauffeur, a silent but observant
tell you that if von Wiegand is not an their benefactors in the Wilhelinstrasse. person, was chiefly struck by the marvel
[DY D. THOMAS CURTIN TO THE TIMES. ́ ́)
nctual attaché of the German Press One of the Americans who essays to be of it all from the point of view or its In order thoroughly to understand the Bureau, his enterprise almost always semi-independent was some time ago transport. One must, he said, have & importance the Germans attach to the takes the form of very effective Press member of a journalistic party conducted few snips over there in England to bring possibility of their forcing the United agent work for the Kaiser's cause. to Lille. Ho left the party long enough over this mass of men and material. The States to interveno against England, it is certainly comes and goes at all official to stroll into a jeweller's shop to pur- French officers who spoke about it took a necessary that I should explain, and at | headquarters in Germany on terms of chase a new glass for his watch. While wider view, 1 is incredible, they kept some length, the extraordinary measures welcome and intimacy not approached by making the purchase he asked the French- on saying, that you should have made taken by the German Government in the states of any other American corres man who waited on him how he liked the This the whole vast 6ghting-mashing regard to American newspaper correspondent, and is a close friend of the was the reply. A couple of weeks "They are very harsh, but through part of whose complicated works pondents now practically imprisoned in notorious Count Reventlow.
just," we were bumping our way--in two years.Germany.
later, when the correspondents were lack C'est fantastique." And incredible and
on Berlin. Major Nicolai, of the War marvellong the new British Armies most
Press Bureau, sent for the correspondent, certainly are
when you see them it being
said to him that he knew of the occasion on which the American journalist had "NOT EVEN AT VERDUN.''
"Not even at Verdun," a-French officer who had served there said to me, love I seen anything like this "this being the rain and destruction of Montauban the wreck of the Bois de Hernatay, and Bois des Troncs to Guillemont, the shattered bricks of which have been combed out by the men of a French Territorial regiment to make good the road.
Verdun I have not seen since the Ger- man offensive, but, comparing it with what I know, the destruction of Guille mont is worse even than that of Maurepas, and I can any nothing stronger than that. For miles round nothing is green, nothing is standing. Brown mud, shattered sticks of trees and woodwork; and a sea of shellholea are all that you can of desolation, this desert of dreariness, And it was over this abomination that our men advanced, with the gallant
Str.
The subject may seem a tiresome one to the ordinary English reader, who would prefer to know more of the Zeppelin and submarine campaign, and to have further information of the food crisis, and much that I have yet to tell.
None the less, it is imperative for the understanding of the news that will cane from the other side of the Atlantic in the next few weeks that the conditions under which the American journalists are work ing should be understood here and in my native country. It is they upon whom the Germans rely to stir up war feeling in the United States.
17
He
Vou Wiegand's liaison with the powers that be in Berlin has long been a stand- ing joke ninong his American collegues, Shortly after the fall of Warsaw in August. 1916, when the stage in Poland was set for exhibition to the neutral
left the party" in Lille, and demanded world, von Wiegand was roused from his to know what had occurred in the watch. slumbers in his suite at the Adlon by & maker's shop. The correspondent repeat- midnight telephone message, apprising ed precisely what the Frenchman had him, that if he would be at Friedrich said.
"Well, snarled Major Nicolai, strasse Station at 4.30 the next morning," why, didn't you send that to your with racked bags, he would be the only paper? I may mention here that these correspondent to be taken on a staff trip parties of neutral correspondent o to Warsaw. Wiegand was there at the herded rather than conducted when on appointed hour, but was astonished to tour. discover that he had been hoaxed. perpetrators of the "rag his U.S. confrères.
A NEW STAR.
The
were some of
UNDIGNIFIED TREATMENT, The American correspondents had sample of the actual, contempt in which the German authorities hold them on the day when the commercial submarina Deutschland returned to Bremen, on Aug 23rd. For purposes of glorifying the Deutschland's achievement in the United States, the American correspondents in Berlin were dispatched to Bremen, where
Zeppelin, two airship commanders. who they were told that elaborate special ar- rangements for their reception and enter tainment had been completed. Count
of other
French on their right, in the fierce days would be necessary for them to enter into have a place in the sun. The gentleman had just raided ́England, and a number
that went before the final surrounding of Combles. Never, I should say, have inen and guns faced and delivered a greater and more destructive volume of fire. Beyond the village the ground broadens out into a huge tableland, a more open field of battle, and as you walk across it, still following the line of the British advance castwards, on the left of the Bois de Leuze, up into which the French charged after their rush down the slopes to the south west of Combles, you begin to see the country beyond, where the advanced trenches" now ́are. In front. of you, a mile and a half away as you stand on the west edge of the Bois de Leuze, topping the rise in front, are the remains of Morval. A mile and a half farthur on, a little more to the right, the ridge on the farther side of a wide ascending slope, churned every now and then into black clouds of smoke and debris by the bursting shells, is crowned by the trees and houses of Sailly-Baillisel, now being assaulted by the French.
But these distant features at first you only look at every now and then, as you to hand over the control of their personal pick your way across the battlefield, movements to the German Government for skirting shell-holes and jumping across an unlimited number of years did not trenches--the old battlefield, with the take the pledge, with the result that traces of the battle still fresh upon it,they were not invited to join the all the hideous, untidy, unsavoury litter personally conducted junkets to the fronts of battered, mud-stained rifles, discarded which were subsequently organized. ammunition, burst and unburst shells,
CENSORSHIP FETTENG. shot-pierced helmets, newspapers, letters, Tags, boots, mcat-tins, and bottles.
2-To guarantee that dispatches would be published in the United States
that is to say, as edited and passed by the military censorship, 3-To supply their own headlines for their dispatches, and to guarintes that these, and none others, would be printed. After labouring in vain to instruct Major Nicolai that with the best of inter- tions on the part of the correspondents it was beyond their power to say in exactly what form the Omaha Bee or the New Orleana Picayune would publish their copy," the correspondeals afixed their signatures to the weird document laid before them. It was signed, without exception, by all the important corres !pondents
A NEAR VIEW OF COMELES,
311 permanently stationed: Berlin. Two or three who did not desire.
Nothing that has happened in Germany during the war illustrates so well the vassalage to which neutral correspondents have been reduced as the humiliating pledges extorted from them by the Berman Government as the price of their remaining in Berlin for the practice of their profession,
J
The
many vacant
Towards the end of 1915 the American newspaper correspondents in Berlin were summoned to the Kriegs-Presse-Bureau (War Press Bureau) of the Great General Staff. The official in charge, Major Nicolai, notified them that the German
Von Wiegand for nearly two years has Government desired their signature to an
been the recipient of such marked and agreement respecting their future exclusive favours in Berlin that Mr. activities in the war. It had been Hearst's New York American (the chief decided, Major. Nicolai stated, to allow rival of the New York World, and the Gorman fronts at more or less regular this country) decided to send to Germany the American journalists to visit the bend of the International News Ser vice "which has just been suppressed in intervals, but before this was done it
a special correspondent who would also certain pledges. These were, mainly:-
national heroes would be present, 1.-To remain in Germany for the dura appointed to crowd Mr. von Wiegand out together with the Grand Duke of Olden- tion of the war, unless given special of the limelight was a former clergyman burg at the head of a galaxy of civil, mili permission to leave by the German named Dr. William Bayard Hale,
tary, and naval dignitaries. The grand gifted writer and speaker, who inter-climax of the Deutschland joy carnival authorities.
Viewed the Crown Prince the other day. wa be a magnificent bauquer with and who obtained some international plenty of that tare luxury, bread and precisely as sent from Germany, notoriety seven or eight years ago by town hall) accompanied by both cratori- butter, at the famous Bremen Rathaus terview was so full of blazing political cal and pyrotechnical fireworks. terviewing the Kaiser. That earlier indiscretions that the German Govern correspondents were given an opportunity nient suppressed it at great cost by buy to watch, the triumphal progress of the ing up the entire issue of the New York Deutschland through the Weser into magazine in which the explosion was Bremen harbour, but at night, when they about to take place. Enough of the con- tents of the interview subsenently leaked looked for their places at the Rachhaus out to indicate that its main feature was feast, they were informed that there was no room for them. An overflow banquet the German Emperor's insane animosity had been arranged in their special honour to Great Britain and Japan and in a neighbouring tavern. This was too determination to go to war with them.
much even for some of the War Press Dr. Hale, who arrived in Berlin about Bureau's best American friends, and the four months ago, also enjoyed the prestige overflow dinner party was served at a of having once been an intimate of Pre table which contained sident Wilson. He had written the Int
chairs. Their intended occupiers had er's biography, and later represented taken the first train back to Berlin, him in Mexico as, a special emissary
thoroughly disgusted.
I think it fair to say that several of Shortly before the war Dr. Hale married believe, a sister or near relative of Herr Berlin, including Mr. Conger and Mr. a New York German woman, who is, the principal American correspondents in Muschenheim, the owner of the Hotel Powers of the Associated Press Office, Astor, which in 1914 and 1913 was in Mr. Cyril Browne, of the Fete Fork habited by the German propaganda Times, and Mr. Ackermann, of the United bureau, or one of the many bureaux mair-Press, are making a serious effort to prac tained in New York City. From the date tise independent journalism. But is a of his German matrimonial alliance Dr. difficult and hopeless struggle. They are Hale became an ardent protagonist of shackled and controlled from one end of Kultur. One of his last activities before the week to the other. They could not if going to Germany was to edit a huge they wished send the unadorned truth yellow book" which summarized Eng to the United States. All they are per Turning then to our right, through the
land's violations of international law mitted to report is that portion of the Bois de Louze, so as not to attract
and the acrimonious correspondence on truth which reflects Germany in the light unnecessarily the attention of the enemy,
contraband and shipping controversies in which it a useful for Germany to ap we came out above the village of Comblee,
between the British and American Gov car from time to time. Germany has finally surrounded and occupied on
This publication was financed organized news for neutrals in the most ernments. September 24th by the combined French
by the German publicity, organization intricate fashion. A certain kind of and English forces. It lies in a hollow,
and widely circulated in the Thited news is deled out for the United States, on the reverse slope of the ridge on the
States and all neutral countries.
a totally different kind for Spain, and south side of which, a mile and a half
Dr. Hale, a tall, dark, been looking, still a different brand, when emergency away on the broad plateau over which the
smooth-shaven, and smooth-spoken Ame demands, for Switzerland, Brazil, or French runde their main advance north
rican, received in Berlin on his arrival & China. There is a Chinese correspondent of the Somme, he the ruins of Maurepas.
welcome customarily extended only to a among the other mentrals" in Germany: Like all these little villages, it looks at
new-coming foreign Ambassador.
He The news prepared for him by Major first sight a paltry place to have caused
came, of course, provided with the warm Nicolai's department would be very amus- se mun difficulty to the advance of the
had administered to his est credentials Count Bernstorff could
ing reading in the columns of Mr. von Allies. But the reason of its strength is journalistic compatriots, the Berlin Press supply. Long before Hale had a chance Wiegand's or Dr. Hale's papers, plainly written in the remains of its launched one of those violent attacks to present himself at the Foreign Office, There is a celebrated and pro-Ally buildings. The greater number of them, against the Ambassador to which he has the Foreign Office presented itself to him, though badly shattered, are still standing, constantly been subject in Germany an emissary from the Imperial Chan-Alle in New York whose motto is news that's fit to print." The whereas every stick and stone in Maure during the war. Of the pernicious cellor having, according to the story cur motto of the German War Press Bureau pas and Guillemont was razed to the character of the anti-Gerard campaign rent in Berlin, left his compliments at ground. It was just the fact of its lying in Germany by Germans and German-Dr. Aale's hotel. Hale had not been into "All the news that we think fit to
in print." in a corner on the reverse slope of the
Berlin many days before an interview ridge which made it so difficult for the
with Bethmann Hollweg was handed to artillery to get at it. This and its
The American journalistic colony in him on a silver plate. Forthwith the | A NEUTRAL ON THE SOMME. subterranean shelters made of it a block Germany is a very different thing from New York Americun began to be deluged
DUTCH JOURNALIST AND THE house which it was easy to defend and what it used to be in pre-war days. with the journalistic sweetmeats-Minis- necessarily costly for the infantry to take Before 1914 it consisted merely of the terial interviews, Departmental state- BRITISH OFFENSIVE. until, by the French advance on the east representatives of the Associated Press mente, and exclusive news tit-bits-with and the English on the west, the combined and United Press, half-a-dozen New York which Karl Heinrich von Wiegand had so An address on
Impressions of the forces were enabled to assault it from the papers (including the notorious New long and alone been distinguishing him Battle of the Somme was delivered
Yorker Stants-Zeitung), and the well-self.
before the Leeds City Luncheon Club While we were standing on the west known and important Western journal,
last month by Mr. John C. Van der Veer, side of the Tranchée de Combles, which the Chicago Daily News. To-day many
of the Amsterdam runs down to the village from the Bois papers published in the United States
I have told in detail these facts about London Editor
and Hale because between Telegraaf, who recently paid a visit to do Leuze, the French troops ahead of us are represented in Berlin by special ron. Tiesand men are able to deluge the the British front. Mr. Van der Veer were carrying the advance still farther correspondents. The influx of newcomers
As the crow flies the distance from has been mostly from German-language American public with a torrent of Ger summed up his impression in the words, All goes well with the British Army Morval to Bouchavosnes, on the east of papers, printed in such Teutonic centres man-made news and views, of whose the Péronng-Bapaume Road, is about as Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Mil volvime and influence British readers have on the Somme!" He referred in his four miles. I was along this part of the waukee, ote. Journals like the Illinoiser litt conception. The New York World's address to the fact that the Somme front, which lies parallel to the Tranchée Straats-Zeitung, of Chicago, which for European news is syndicated to scores offensive has effectively destroyed the de Combles, that our Allies were attack years past has barely been able to keep of newspapers throughout the American illusion which had been all too long the ing, just beyond, our view, except so far its head above water, have suddenly found continent, and for the past 18th months fear of the world, that Germany's mili
This, he as the artillery fire was concerned. themselves affluent enough to maintain the service has "featured" von Wietary power was invincible." North-east of Marval they carried for correspondents in Europe who, for their gand's Berlin dispatches to the exclusion, considered, the greatest moral effect
or at least almost to the eclipse, of the produced in the war. ward their line 1,200 metres, along the part, scorn lodginga less pretentious than
Hale's dis- Mr. Van der Veer paid a high tributa For we say that the skinniest screw slopes west of the Bailly-Baillisel ridge those of the de lure Hotel Adlon in Unter World's other war news, niest man or woman can quickly "l! to within about the same distance of den Linden.
patches to the Hearst Press have beta to the fighting quality of the New published all the way across the Republic, Armies, and spoke of the wonderful out "become plumpyes, with actual Sailly-Baillisel, and along the edge of the healthy fat, in sixty days and all by big Bois de St. Pierre Vasst, east of
not only in the dailies of vast circulation now, simple, harmless home treatment Raccourt, from which it now stretches But, thanks mainly to the constant and, owned by Mr. Hearst in New York, results achieved by British artillery and
airmen that can't possibly hurt you, that imposes towards Hill 150 to the south of if I may so suggest, unwise quotation in Boston, Chicago, Barr Francisco. Los In closing, Mr. Van der Veer said:-- no hardships, no disagreeable diets, no · Bouchavesnes.
The Times, the bright particular star in Angeles, and elsewhere, but also in a
"Your New Armies and your new or- foolish "rub ons,” that can be taken The net result of the day's work was the American journale firmame in great many other papers like the pro privately in your own home without the that, by brilliant, fighting, they attained Berlin is Karl Hai von Wied, minent Philadelphia North American,ganization will win the war and make International Right tinmph over Might. Your soldiers knowledge of anyone. SARGOL tablets do each one of their objects in this direction, the special representat of the New Fark which subscribed to the
anisters in France will be satisfied New Bervice." the work, your chemist keeps then 10 besides taking 400 prisoners, and indict World, The Neat Fork Boris is not
The German authorities understand alt with nothing less. No one helped you to stock.
ing heavy loads on the enemy north of pro-German, but von Wiegand is of A B. WATHON & CO., LTD.,
Saillisel concentrated artillery fire direct and noble German origin. Apart this perfectly well. That explain their prede war, let no one hinder you to As the British troops were at the same from his admitted talents as a newspaper Hale, and to other equally valuable corsecuring an absolutely fust and stable unceasing attention to von Wiegand and reap the reward of great sacrifices, by time progressing rapidly on their left, toan, von Wierand's Prussian van is the north-west of Morval, especially at of no inconsiderable value to any news respondents like Eneris of the flanker peace Prussian militarism must censo Gueudecourt and Lesboeufs, the combined raper which employs him. Ton Wiegand. Germania, Danziger of the insertu exist. We found that determination Success -Was very marked.
I believe, claims to be a native of Staate Zeitung, Schuette of the Chicago animating all your Area France,"
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It was undoubtedly this episode which inspired the American Ambassador, Mr. Gerard, to tell the American pondents last summer that they would do well to obtain their freedom from the German censorship before invoking the Embassy's good offices to break down the alleged interference with their dispatches by the British censorship. When the dermans learned of the rebuff which Mr. Gerard
Americans I tope to have more to say later on.
KARL VON WIRGAND.
WIDESPREAD PROPAGANDA.
authorition