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Updated: June 6, 2025
At the time I visited the Presse-Quartier, the executive section was in Teschen; the correspondents lived in Nagybiesce, two or three hours' railroad journey away.
They had their commandant to report to, their "camp" and "uniform" the gold-and-black Presse-Quartier arm band and when they had finished one excursion they returned to headquarters with the reasonable certainty that in another ten days or so they would start out again. Cannon Fodder At the head of each iron bed hung the nurse's chart and a few words of "history."
The Presse-Quartier was divided into two sections: an executive section, with a commandant responsible for the arrangement of trips to the various fronts, and the general business of censorship and publicity; and an entertainment section, so to speak, also with its commandant, whose business it was to board, lodge, and otherwise look after correspondents when they were not on trips to the front.
In this fashion were strangers welcomed to the "Presse-Quartier," or rather to that part of it this little Hungarian village in which correspondents lived during the intervals of their trips to the front. The Austrians have pleasant manners. Their court is, next to that of Spain, the most formal in Europe, and ordinary life still retains many of the older courtesies.
He had a little factory in Budapest and had gone back on furlough to see that things were ship-shape, but it was no use, he couldn't tell them what to do when he got there. Common enough, our captain guide observed. He had been in the fighting along the San until invalided back to the Presse-Quartier, and there were times, then, he said, when for days it was hard for him to remember his own name.
The Austro-Hungarians, on the other hand, prepared from the first for a large number of civilian observers, including news and special writers, photographers, illustrators, and painters, and, to handle them satisfactorily, organized a special department of the army, this Presse-Quartier, once admitted to which the fakirs and fly-by-nights were supposed to be weeded out by the preliminary red tape they were assumed to be serious workmen and treated as the army's guests.
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