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Updated: July 26, 2025
There were only four of us; two specials, Wallis and myself, a news-agency reporter, and a local man. "Stott takes first over," remarked Wallis, sharpening his pencil and arranging his watch and score-sheet he was very meticulous in his methods. "They've put him to bowl against the wind. He's medium right, isn't he?" "Haven't the least idea," I said.
He was served too, and exceedingly well, by special agents of his own, who came to him at all hours in cabs driven recklessly, or on foot, in a stealthy, apologetic way, as though doubtful whether the news they brought would be acceptable. The office upstairs bore out the notion of the news-agency. Its chief furniture consisted of two long, sloping tables, on which lay files of daily papers.
"Then what am I to send?" I asked. "There are the bulletins," he said. "Yes, the bulletins which are just your bald official account of week-old happenings which are sent to every news-agency in Europe before we see them!" "But you are a war correspondent. You can add to them in your own language."
It is true that for years there had been a business connection between the greatest American news-agency, the Associated Press, and the Wolff Telegraphic Bureau; as, however, the agency was not served direct with Berlin Wolff-telegrams, but by its own representatives there, this did not amount to much.
Then I'd bear up for a toy-store, and lay out twenty dollars in assorted toys for the piccaninnies; and then to a confectioner's and take in cakes and pies and fancy bread, and that stuff with the plums in it; and then to a news-agency and buy all the papers, all the picture ones for the kids, and all the story papers for the old girl about the Earl discovering himself to Anna-Mariar and the escape of the Lady Maude from the private madhouse; and then I'd tell the fellow to drive home.
It is thus clear that the news-agency mentioned performs two separate functions, although the German army authorities do not draw this distinction. First, the circulation of reports issued by the Army Headquarters in the field, for the truth of which the Berlin General Staff guarantees.
These letters enable us to see Hartlib as he was in 1637, a Prussian naturalized in London, between thirty and forty years of age, nominally a merchant of some kind, but in reality a man of various hobbies, and conducting a general news-agency, partly as a means of income and partly from sheer zeal in certain public causes interesting to himself.
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