Behind the Scenes at Reuter's.

Manawatu Herald, 24 December 1896, Page 2

Behind the Scenes at Reuter's.

In the November number of the Windsor Magazine, Mr T. Artemus Jones gives a detailed account of the growth of the Press Association and Router. Of the latter he says :— " It was in 1849 that the practical working of the telegraph between Aix-la-Chap» lie and Berlin ('he first section open to the public) suggested to Paul Jui ius R.uter, who was then con-met-d with Lhe electric telegraph system, that a new opoch was about to begin in correspondence. Forthwith he established in Aix his first c-n;re for the oolleotion and trans* mi -sion ._ news. This he developed as various telegraph lines were opened In 1851 was laid the cable between Calais and Dover, an event lhat induoed Mr Reuter to transfer bis chief offices to London. Then he stationed agents in nil parts of the world to supply him with news. In the large cities of Europe Reuter is directly represented by its own agents— chiefly experienoed journal. ists. Io less-known and remoter parts the work is done by tbe looal correspondents and the agenoies to which Reuter is affiliated. Sue^ an arrangement as this is indispensable if every corner of the globe is to be covered. Of the achievements which must by means of this system be credited to Reuter, the general pablio sees daily evidence in the expeditious manner in which he reflects the hourly temperature of the world's pulse. Snch an event, for example, as the bombardment of Zanzibar is detailed in iha London papers a few hours after its occurrence, despite tbe fact tbat tbe cables and wires must have been almost blocked by Government and official despatches. In the busy little building in Old Jewry, the scene of Reuter's headquarters, the heart of the world never ceases to throb at any moment of tbe day. Most European n_w3 reaches England in this way, in the French and German language. But from Ame rica, Asia, Australia, Afrioa, in faot every other quarter of lhe globe, the messages come over in English."

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