Passed by the Censor, the Experience of an American Newspaper Man in France (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Wythe Williams
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780260909350
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Languages : en
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Excerpt from Passed by the Censor, the Experience of an American Newspaper Man in France At the outbreak of the European war, the au thor, who was then stationed in Paris as the cor respondent of the New York Times, was refused, with all other correspondents, any credentials per mitting him to enter the fighting area. He eu tered it later, immediately after the battle of the Marne, with what were in Paris considered sufli cient credentials. But he was arrested, returned to Paris as a prisoner of war and lodged in the Cherche Midi prison, the famous military prison, where Dreyfus was confined. He was released upon the intervention of Ambassador Herrick, but still baffled in getting to the front as a war cor respondent, he volunteered for service in the Red Cross as an orderly on a motor ambulance. A few ofithe descriptions in the following pages are writ ten from notes made during the two months be re mained in that service. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.