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LONDON, October 29th. Reater's Correspondant at American Headquarters, telegraphing to-day
states-
OVERSEAS JOURNALISTS.
of
of the British nation. It was the frat
time that the newspaper Prose had been CUTLER PALMER & CO,'S,
thus received, in a representative, charac-
AN IMPERIAL MISSION.
tar and exploitý. Thay ware here as Representatives of avery sphere the observation officers of the British journalism in the United Kingdom a bird's-eye view much of our future would Dominions Oversons, and upon their cepted Lord Burnham's invitation to meet depead. They would see things in, a at dinner at the Rita Hotel, the delegates truer light and a fairer proportion, than we could with eyes that were, dimmed by from the Dominions' Press who have been the smoke and blurred by the beat of visiting the Mother Country as the guests the ery furnace.
We wer
were too Mose
to of the Government, in order that they the hissing and roaring
of the forcing this war was con- might study at Arat, hand the war efforts cluded by a just and decisive peace they of the Empire both in the Motherland could not see-things whole, but they would at least soe them more clearly than and ht the front. Three of the we could, and they would Dominions' Premiers were among the com. paay, in addition to the Labour member of the War Cabinet and the Minister of Pensions.
Ola
ventured to think, and that Country had aged much in these
It might be that the glasses!
wat.
they used would be, for the first time, of British make In the fourth year of this bloody war, Britain was pulsating with an energy and enthusiasm to which the bad long been a stranger which struck us 33 astoundingly new. Instead
including our own high
Long-range guns of big calibre bäve Mr. Hughes, proposing the toast of begun abelling in the direction of The British Press, said he recognised the Longuyon-Montmedy-Sedan-Menieres to the full the power of the Press. The of the old pose of self-questioning doubt.
right to exist
railway, which is the vital communica Press was prominent as an agency in about every was a living faith tion upon which the enemy depended civilisation. There was no means the rightconness of this for quick transportation of troops, sup-potent and so effective us the Press in plies etc., from one portion of the front bringing the nations of the earth more to another. The calibre of the guns and closely together. To-day what happened not be stated, but they are moro formick in the most remote parts of the earth warmed in war work and war duties, to the able than the big Bertha that bombed
Paris.
THE PARIS-LILLE RAILWAY RE-ESTABLISHED.
LONDON, October 29th.
1.
A Havas message states:- Today, communication with Lille was re-established. The train runs, day and night in both directions.
EARLIER CARLES. FRESH: SUCCESSES ON THE OISE -SERRE FRONT:
LONDON, October 20th:
A French communiqué states Fierce Eghting occurred on the east bank of the Oise opposite Grand-Verly, the enemy launched several counter-attacks,
where
of Guise.
fluences.
We also made progress cast of Peron, in the region north-west of Pergay Wooding so well for that time as the Fress.
The French are now in contact with the whole of the new enemy line between the
Oise and the Serre
The French have advanced north of
said it would do so principally and mainly because men would know each other, and there was no agency prepar The British Press was at the very top (haar, hear) and its induence was felt most peak of the world's
's journalism
throughout the Empire. He had nerez. ing of the Censor's mind and he hope been able quite to understand the work
for a speedy coming of the day when the Censor would be no longer needed. | (Cheers.)
COFY" MAKER,
cause which made all things possible. The most striking of all changes was the extent to which women had claimed and had obtained an equal share with the
etornal glory of British womanhood. (Cheers.)" We seemed to have shed for good and all that obvious sad traditional defect of our qualities which the foreigner believed to be an ireradicable instinet the race the snobbishness, of Thackeray said, of thinking meanly of mean things.. We thought less of mean things now. Perhaps we had also got rid of what our fast friends and valiant which meant the pretence and assump other nations, even of our own house tion of a superiority, a pride of life over hold, that had no justification in fact.
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known in every capital of the world, thanks to the Press. The journalist endeavoured to combine accuracy with that "degree of interest in presentation which the critical readers of the Press demanded. (Fear, hear," and laughter.) Bat the Press at times, of course, found it rather difficult to supply their re He Allies, the French, called "anobbism," with the information they wanted remembered in the early days of the war very enterprising newspaper, in the city with which he (Mr. Hughes) had been so long associated, rose to the ocea sion in a way that appealed to him an Australian, a Briton and one of the
THE NEW SPIRIT. Allies fighting in a great cause. It killed. one brigade of cavalry at least six or But there was a pride that was justi- seven times. They were Prussians, and fied, like wisdom, of its children, and they thoroughly deserved it (Laughter that was the pride we took in the shin- and cheers.) Speaking seriously, nong achievements of the sister States of agency other than the Press had been the Imperial Commonwealth. (Cheers more successful in spreading abroad when all had won such imperishable among the peoples of the earth the know-fame, it was invidious-almost impossible On all the Fronts of ledge of each other which was the assar, to distinguish. are and supplied a.bulwark against war war the Dominion Forces, had shared and rumours of war.
hesr.) I renown that could never be erased from thehumaan memory. It was only through the. by some waving of the
magic wand the peoples of the earth could be brought newspaper Press that the minds of men Further south. the French passed the face to face there would be comparatively could be shaped and moulded from day lines as far as the approaches to the was one of the most civilising of in the common ideals and purposes of tew opportunities for quarrel. The Pred to day, almost from: hour to boar, to
Oise, capturing strong points north-west when peace would reign on earth, but burl were coming on to the generation of He looked forward to the day patriotism and union. To those who our young and rising hope-it was both teacher and preacher. The power of the Press was bound to grow
with the growth of popular government. Nobody in their sense could allege that the Press of the
them that there was a need for farther Empire was badly informed constructed, but this war had
of weakly Laught
Empire represented there that night had understanding and mutual service among themselves. The great divisions of the many sides and many features, but they had this in common they had grown to their full strength and stature on the footing of independence and self-respect.. marked that Mr. Hughes knew all about were so to an ever-increasing degree, but Sir George Riddell, in response, ren that way they had become necessary to the machinery of government, and from its comments knew all about Mr. machine, and he hoped they never would the Press, and the Press he gathered
they
were not part of the Government Hughes (Laughter.) While the whole be (Cheers) Criticism was the soles- Press was not, perhaps, agreed about Mr. tion of the best, and to give the people Haghes, they were united in giving him the best they could have in the way of great publicity politician the other day how it was that Mr. Hughes critics, and even severe critics, sometimes men and measures they must ever be was reported so much in the Press. He advocates, and even enthusiastic advo replied:
There are some people who cates, but not the actors and agenta of have the faculty of being interesting ang Government, no matter what its whether you agree with them or not, and colour or combination of colours, if they Mr. Hughes is one of them." (Cheers.) wished the
Press certain undoubted defects, but it always comed its visitors back to their spiritual The British Press wel krew, s good thing when it saw it in home on the banks of the River Fleet, one of the great copy makers of the crossed some time or other on their way world. Bomething had been said about the Censor. He had had a good deal of to the further shore, where the Consor ceased from troubling and even the news spending the last four years with them editor was at rest. experience of censors. He had been. Mr. Hughes had said that the great
DAILY GROWING. STRENGTH. difficulty
ow the working of the Censor a mind? He, however, gathered Mr. Richardson, M.P., editor of the From the communications he received Finnipeg Tribune, said they stood almost every day from various members of the appalled at the efforts of the British Freas that the great doubt which existed people. Talk about the decadence of the whether the Censor bad got a mind at succession of miracles, The British Fleet in the minds of British journalists as British race why, they had witnessed a all. (Laughter.) At the end of four-seventeen miles of double lines of war- years of war no one could dare to sag ships-they stood amazed at it. That given up one whit of their independence, round these sacred islands, to guard them gest that the British newspapers had feet stood, an impenetrable steel band, the necessity, but, after four years of might come. So long as that fleet was They had a Censor, and they admitted from attack from whatever corner it sensorahip, the Press was as independent intact the British Empire was safe. The in its judgment as when the war started. speaker pleaded for the (Cheers.)
establishment Proposing the toast of The Dominion if there was anything that was desirable. A Minister of Outlook," and said that Press, Lord Burnham said he doubted in the British Empire and its Overseas Whether since 1909 a more
by some of the best beers and prophets such a Ministry. It should be officered dir Wm. Sowden of the ddaaide Register who said he represented .100. journaliste fram
Mr. Fenwick. of the CHỐI TASHA
Herly and west of Chateau Parcien. HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRING ON
VERDUN FRONT. 7.
Losnos, October 29th. An American communiqué states The Verdun front was marked with heavy artillery friog.” An enemy counter. attack in Bellieu Wood was repulsed.
FRENCH AERIAL FLEET OF 200
MACHINES..
LONDON, October 29th.
A French communiqué states:-
Our observera report numerous" fires on, ike other institutions, the Press had of the public to be the mouthpiece
the Arane front also in the valley of the Serre."
A fleet of 200 machines copiously bomb. ed the enemy back areas in the region of Chateau Porcien, playing havoc with the communications and causing heavy
Last
losses.
FRENCH PURSUE VICTORIOUS OFFENSIVE.
Lvovs, October 98th, The French troops are still pursuing their victorious offensive...
General Dobecney has advanced on a front of 95 kilometres from north-west of Guise to Mortiers, reaching a depth of eight kilometres at certain points and capturing 4,000 prisoners, 20 guns and bundreds of machine and sati-tank guns The Tenth Army captured. Hill 123, | north of Crecy-sur-Borre, while the Fifth Army, after a battle lasting two days, captared the Hunding Line between Bis sonne and Chateau Forcien French
Mirelcan
THE MODERN SHIPYARD..
the way of copy atid Mr. Hughes was the inky stream which all Pressmen
was to
of
Essembly of our free Commentative Dominions it was the inauguration of
of
Nations was ever brought together, though he had in his recollection the first of a wonderful series of gatherings nine years ago, when his father received at
home is what Disraeli called
the Imperial
·Press Conferen
his
which did more than was ever known to be a monstrous to
Times, who also colonies were ever the Cheers More than Empire before this death-birth of a new with the The Egis yard on which work was begun had wished to hear more in these
world. There was one eloquent voice they
Escal in November, is now completed. It covers and that was the voice of Lord Rosebery
Trade must go (
policy days, a site of nearly sixteen acres on the banks
Dominions
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that the trade should bo
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"they beard, kmart piece of work was done at the though, perhaps, not as much as they Wallsend yard of Messrs. Swan, Huntory should have had they been taken into the Mr Massey proposed the health of the
Wigham Richardson on the day that
confidence of Government, the model fabricated ship was launched: today. He owed this one they were host, and observed that Lord Burnham chance of fellow had done eminent service as a Pressman Five minutes after that vessel tool thing his father's footsteps to the grasp of the Empire. Citizens of the OversCAS water the keel was laid of a 10,000-son of the things that matter and count shows Dominious knew more of the heart of the standard bil, at the regated berthe (fewing, great precedoration, in tolpire he believed in the residents first keewon plate was put in Position loving the great precedent set by the in the heart of the Empire knew almost before the vocal went off, ceress in bringing them here to see things Overseas Dominions. That was a matter
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