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Show Miscellany War News In a letter to the World Benedict Prieth of Newark complains that re ports sent out from Berlin although in variably correct rarely receive serious attent on by our newspapers soma of the latter going so far as to reject w relesa reports from Germany Mr Pr eth s m staken Off cial re ports from Berl n reee ve the ser oirs at tent on of all Amer can newspapers and we know of no newspaper that rejects German w reless reports On the con trary large sums of money have boon spent bj the World and other papers n the effort to obta n more complete news from Germany If Mr Prieth w II examine the Ger man newspapers as thev come to the In el States he w II find that they pr nt no mportant erman war news wh h has not alrea 1 am eared n the Wo Id and other New York newspapers M Pr eth compla ns about the nnm be of fake ews reports that come from Br t sb French and Belg an sources b t he shoull e nembcr that however acc rate the off r al Berl n reports may be some of the n ost h ghly spectae Jar fa es of the war have cone from ( er man so rces 8 rel he annot have for gotten how the New orker Hero d sank th tv n ne Br sb warsh s by neans of eppel ns or how the Staats Yo t ng de st oyed a B t s fleet n the Hu nber by s Ima np On v ast vpek a Bpr d d hi at h k lp f 0 0 Hubs aus n a s ngl late p ther s de has an monopo ot the fak ng n th s wa ff the e s nbre of t n t e s le f the a p t at re onde an c s ea 1) exp a dp I bv the a t at mo p wa n vs of al n Is 0 nes f on those sou es I u r tb rep rts aga nst nb h M 1 eth o psts a c no a of n d bp a o am Sa gn of sla p t pe at o ad oas ng as he h h 1 he a a ne af es of 1 a pnso si as a hp go p men she afj pI Lor spon Ipsftpn nop a he f nt In p C na a p bol v ndp h an a o s nts p prvwhp p ho p o g p o IwatPsP hah e t d bosoo safao a of (,a hp f"" p e t an pa ons h bffe a m es hp A p a Pp P pa n a e en k na a v n p b g n n n a f n r h p a nn n u t as h o t p b nry 1 n ago" en os ie nps n i f th l k n ol s ho ub tutcu o os hce the news proved to be wrong t has been co rectp I as soon p ll le an I thore no rlan a In n wh ch roa I s A er a osa s n p m s to I ex e mal c s b b II e nnfl g o f n n s es ko t mpossible to searate the true from the false O the omplaints about the news wh h con p to the or d we 1 a e fo I that n a major t ot cases tho fa t was with the reader R ors that ncrp pr nted as r mors he had pers ed n tak ng as d rept statements of fa ts In off al reports r nted as noff al r ports he has t "ted nto off al o Even obv Ost tKph cal error ha e been eonstr c I as proof of gross unfa ness or shock ng gnorance on the art ot the newspaper The man who reads the New o k newspapers e e Ha w th an nt 11 gent an I open n n I an 1 vbo arof checks p not onl the correct ons of mslealing false reports h t thp or roborat ons of orrp t rpj orts s II ha o rr clear an I a curate fo mai on as to genera ) rogress of thp war More than that no newsi a er can hope to do for ts readers New "i ork World |