Show HOW nOV SECRETS LEAK OUT London War Wax Office Cannot Keep KeepNews News Hews From Prom the Papers New York July 31 the con controversy between Mr Broderick and UHl the London Daily MK Mail the London corre correspondent spon t of ot the th Tribune says There Te Is 18 no new phase in m Mr Broder icks leks singular attempt to discipline news newspapers newspapers newspapers papers suspected of obtaining the secrets of ot the war office by improper means The law arms him with full resources for punishing not ROt only clerks betraying the confidence of ot the department but also those tho e who hire them to do it Those rhose conversant with the ordinary procedure of the war office mca are amused by Mr Sir disingenuous d o oi effort to discredit r his own n staff I by charging a certain n newspapers with corrupting the clerks i with moderate incomes The real r source of 0 leakage is Ia welt weH known When Whenever Whenever Whenever ever important dispatches are held over In the war office for or r hours there is gossip among military men wio receive their cues CUM from n high Confidential matters which h are whispered in n the military clubs soon s reach r the ears of oC the Journal L Isis ts and find their way into print This is te the natural explanation of ot many maI disclosures which Mr attributes to bribery on the part of the newspapers The best safeguard against leakage would be the Immediate publication publication cation of the bulletins received from South Africa before fore b the higher officials themselves have a chance of talking about them It is 18 one of the require requirements requIrements requirements ments of o red tape that nothing shall be published from train the war office without the direct sanction of or the secretary of war This is 18 a common cause of delay since he cannot be consulted readily at atall atall atall all times Mr BroderIck has bas brought himself into ridicule toy Iby his Ms credulous and irra irrational Irrational conduct in seeking to the Daly Mall and the t clerks s in the war ri The Mali Mail r l however w e disclaims dl la 17 any intention en to imply that Mr Broderick h had been guilty n of l falsehood fil and aJ merely considers the secretary of war to have been misinformed in supposing u that t It t thad had used ut any improper p methods s of ob obtaining taming official information |