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...need of his presence during the session of the Legislature. He went to Mindanao where the Moros had massacred a detachment of Filipino constabulary. Instead of returning he sent for his aides and a hundred more constabulary. Then he set out on a tour of the disaffected region. His despatch to the War Department said: " Killing of constabulary grew out of alleged grievance against constabulary and local supervising teachers, all Filipinos...
Secrecy, justice, despatch are therefore afforded everyone concerned. Particularly is secrecy deemed necessary since publicity regarding a suspiciously unhealthy play draws thousands to the spot of the infection...
...example, not long ago Manhattan journals printed authoritatively that Germany had ceased passive resistance in the Ruhr. Actually no such thing had occurred and did not occur until a fortnight later. Another journal recently received a despatch from its foreign correspondent to the effect that Queen Zita was living near Vienna. The truth was that she had not budged from Spain...
...this combines to render European news service inadequate and misinforming. I believe that a man in the despatch room of the New York Tinies could learn more about conditions in Europe from the Associated Press despatches than could one who lived in a European city and read the European newspapers...
These 25,000,000 have been kept cognizant, morning and evening, of Mrs. Hearst's present European tour. A typical despatch from Madrid...