REPORTING IN RUSSIA.
English newspaper reporters, who are in some sense veritable eavesdroppera, could not safely ply in Russia their vocation of repeating all they hear as well as all they see. They manage these things differently in the country of the Czar. The editor of a Russian journal has recently been brought before a court of justice for printing, without leave from the proper authority, four words addressed by the Czar to the Khirgastan envoy> Mohammed Sultan. The words were " Ah! you speak Russian." In defence of the editor it was urged that the prohibition to print without leave'from the Minister of the Imperial Court applied only to such remarks as conveyed an intimation of the Sovereign's will, whereas this was a simple expression of goodwill, and that the complaint had not been preferred by that Minister, but only by the Committee of the Censors of the Press. These pleas were not however accepted, and the publication of the interesting little item had to be atoned for by a fine and ten days' imprisonment.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1525, 14 November 1873, Page 13
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175REPORTING IN RUSSIA. Hawke's Bay Times, Issue 1525, 14 November 1873, Page 13
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