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Show i AMERICAN CORRESPONDENTS IN EUROPE. There was a time when Americana were without intcrr?t in European affairs That was before July, Our Sunday pa pers, in those days, carried articles giving the gossip of the royal palaces and occasionally rumors of international discord But as a whole the information offered made very dry reading and w as ol uncertain oritrin. Since then a prval change has lccn experienced Now the American papers are .is well informed on kuropean activities, as the most enterprising journals across the water in fact, are more wideawake wide-awake in printing the new? and searching out the latest development?. develop-ment?. This deeper interest in, and more capable treatment f, European Euro-pean affairs has excited the admiration of foreign newspaper men and Herbert Bailey in the Daily Mail of London, says: " The most ubiquitous and certainly the most powerful of Americans Amer-icans in Europe ami I lie Middle ffiaBl toda are the correspondents of the principal American newspapers. Wherever the futures of nations are bein decided, in quiet chancelleries (,r tumultuous as semblies, on national battlefields or in the streets of cities scarred ij with civil discord, these industrious gentlemen are to be found. ' "Nothing, indeed, is more illustrative of how America htm I" A come involved in European affairs than the sudden and extensive development of Amen, an newspaper interest in the Old World. Bi fore the war a residenl American newspaper eorrespondent in Eur opp -was regarded by his employes as an attractive adornment to the journal's prestige, bu1 a costly luxury. "When the mobilization of the French forces took place in 191-1 such a portentous and dramatic evenl was recorded in a Chicago daily newspaper, now proud of its European news service, by a paragraph of a few lines hidden m amusing obscurity ami columns ; of domestic scandal and internal political comment The fate of Europe, so far as Americans v. ere concerned, might have been thai of another planet, a maiter foE inquisitive wonderment rather than an affair of kindred interest. "But from this imperturbable indifference towards Europe the j American newspapers have changed t anxious scrutiny Ml the enterprise and -vigor of the American newspaper man, the fierce riv airy in search of news, and the ingenious competition in the transmission trans-mission of dispatches, has been brought across the Atlantic " American correspondents must be doing something for the bet' ferment of the newspaper enterprise of England and the continent Their example of enterprise must be havincr its effect on tin- Euro- J pean papers that in the good old days, wore content to publish the I news from a day to a week late. |