Strong Condemnation of Wireless Propaganda by Chairman of Reuters the invitation of Mr. Win.
ner, Renters General Manager iv the Far East, a thoroughly representative party of Shanghai newspaper men assembled at a tiffin at the New Carlton on Tuesday in order to meet Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman and Manag: ing -Director of Reuters Ld. who is visiting the Far East and India in the course of w world tour of Reuters Agencies abroad.
proposing the health of the guest, Mr. O. M. Green, editor of the "North China Daily News," spoke first of the great value of the Reuter service to the newspapers. No newspaper, he said, could attempt out of its own resources to bring in a tenth of the cabled news that Reuter brought in today from abroad. It was not too much to say that Reuter had played a. great and essential. part in the life and development of thie whole of the Far East in the last' generation, and he did not doubt that under the vigorous administration of their guest that day Reuter would continue still further to do so. After referring to the rise of Reuter from a small pigeon-carrier concern in the forties to the unique position it held to-day in the news world, the speaker emphasized the extent to which the value of Reuter news lay in its comprising fact and facts only. The newspapers and the public wanted facts, and these Reuter gave in abundance, especially when the subject matter was of world importance. In this connexion Mr. Green mentioned that during the Great War when the weekly the North-China to be published with a separate supplement - containing—Reuter telegrams, complain were received from subscribers in England when the supplement was left out beeatise they found that Reuter summonses facts they did not get elsewhe! Mr. Green concluded by asking the company to drink to the health of the guest, the head of the great news agency.
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