Everyone in Shanghai is familiar with the word "Reuter" as applied to newspaper telegrams; to jour-rialists, and many others, it represents a service that has" attained great things in the past and promises to achieve even more in the future.
Reuter's Agency has won for self a great reputation for accurate and immediate information; to say that it has never been beaten would be an exaggeration, but it has undoubtedly the greatest name, and deservedly so, amongst news agencies. What Reuter's Agency has done for the Far East all residents for the past decade or so can testify. Not many years ago one or two brief messages each day contained all the telegraphic news the newspapers could afford to supply their readers; to-day in the Far East ye have the Imperial News Service, the Pacific Press Service, and the benefit of at least one other subsidiary service. giving, day by day. every item of news from the various theatres of war throughout the world that the censors have permitted, beside commercial and other interesting informa ti Of course, the reduction in cable rates has contributed materially to this achievement, but however cheap rates might have become such a comprehensive and accurate service would not have been secured except for the enterprise and skill in organization of Reuter's staff.
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