WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 54, 20 October 1914, Page 4

WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

It is estimated (says the London correspondent of the "Age") that there are over three hundred war. correspondents attached to tho armies now in the field in Europe, but they are under strict supervision, to prevent them despatching to their papers an.v information which might prove of use to the enemy. Most of the war correspondents of the English Press are with the French army, but some have been sent to Russia. Of course, no English, French or Russian correspondents are allowed into Germany or Austria. The regulations issued by the French War Office with respect to newspaper correspondents forbid any message being sent by telegraph. All despatches must be written in French, and must be submitted to the military censor before being sent off by post. None of the correspondents will bo allowed to go to the front. They will be placed in charge of an officer, somewhere on the lines of communication, and the information they obtain regarding tho actual fighting will be supplied by staff officers. The regulations regarding Press photographers are even more severe, as tho military authorities are even more anxious to discourage photographers than correspondents. They will be kept under supervision, and their pictures will have to he shown to the censor. The expectation of film manufacturers, that they will be allowed to film a great war in all its details has been shattered.