Attacked over and over again for ing pro this and anti that, the Agency has pursued its serene way, knowing full well that in its incessant effort to set forth facts as they are, it was certain to encounter the afraid that the leprosy would spread and at last, in response to their entreaties, the leper agreed to die. He sold his cattle and with the money purchased a coffin and paid for a fair amount of masses to be said for the opposition of those who looked at things through glasses coloured by their own inclinations. Allied with all th" great news agencies of the Continent, Reuter's Agency has always been recognized as a British institution representing the British point of view. In order that news from the Continent should always be treated from the British side, Reuter has taken care to have com: petent Britons, trained in its own service, at all the principal European capitals, and the activities of these correspondents have maintained Reuter's news service at a high level of accuracy and information.
Some people, who note only that the Agency bears a German name, have been disposed from time to time to accuse Reuter of having: German leanings. Nothing could be farther from the fact. The present Baron de Reuter, who has been Managing Director of the Company for the past forty years, was born and has passed his whole life in England, was educated at Harrow and Oxford, and is in all respects an Englishman. The Directors, the Editorial Staff, and the correspondents, are British, and so, with the exception of a score, are the 1,200) shareholders. To combat its British influence in the Far East and, Beg to announce that the
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