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Show NEW8 OF THE WAR. There is too much faking in (he ! war news of special correspondents representing Bome of the great pa-: pa-: pera of the country. These writers have not been allowed at the front and yet they protend to relate more details than tho general staffs could give out So far we have been well pleased with the reliability of the Associated Press service. Whatever has been ! Questionable has been credited to its source Rumors have been labeled la-beled so that no one need be misled. Tho official bulletins have been marked "official." As a matter of; ! fact, the only reliable news has come j direct from the press bureaus of the I I different countries involved, with the '' exception of that from Russia and Austria. So far the two best Btories oi the war have conic from General I r. thmtrU tlio RHtlKh office I one describing the British retreat, and the other relating some o the striking strik-ing features of the retreat of the Germans Ger-mans from east of Paris to north of the Aisne river. So far all the big stories have appeared ap-peared first in the evening papers. The attack on Liege, the fall of Na mur and Dinant, the retreat from Mens, the great naval battle off Hell goland, the retreat of the Kaiser's forces from near Paris, all were in the Standard twelve hours before appearing appear-ing in any morning paper in Utah. This advantage is due to the fact that between Ogdcn and London there is a difference in time of 7 hours and 28 minutes and between Ogden and ihe battlefield in France nearly S hours. When the Standard goes to press it is midnight in the center of France, and all the fighting of the day has long since ended and reports in at headquarters have been summarized sum-marized and sent out. The results of each days conflict Is known in Paris as early as noon, Ogden time. nn |