Mr. Noyes in reply, after expressing thanks to Reuters and to Mr. Turner for the compliment that had been paid to him, gave some interesting facts about the Associated Press. He explained that it was purely a ce-operative organization embracing, with one or two negligible exceptions, the entire Press of the United States. It supplied news both internally, in America, and from abroad to the American press. It availed itself of the Reuter organization in London, but it had its own news bureau. there as well as in the chief capitals of the world. Besides supplying news to the United States it also supplied news to the American papers in South America. The chief idea behind the extension of its foreign activities some years ago was that the American newspapers desired news through American channels just as the English newspapers would desire news through English channels and we French newspapers news through French channels. That was the beginning of the extension of the Associated Press bureaux throughout the world. The Associated Press relations with Reuters, Mr. Noyes added, had always been of the friendliest character.
In reply to a question, Mr. Noyes showed that the cost of membership of the Associated Press to some newspapers was very considerable. For example, he cited the case of a Chicago newspaper which paid the equivalent of about Mex. $7,000 monthly for the Associated Press service; that is, its membership of the Associated Press cost that amount. Mr. Noyes remarked that among the American section of the foreigners in China there was a feeling that they would like American news direct from America instead of vid London. In saying this he did not impute any lack of impartiality on the part of Reuters in dealing with American news, but just as the British here naturally preferred to have news about England from London, so Americans would like to have news of America direct from America. 8 of the objects of his visit was to meet that need in ce-operation with Reuters. Indeed he was sure that neither Sir Roderick Jones, the Chairman of Reuters in London, nor Mr. Turner, its head here, would place any difficulty in the way, but would ce-operate in secur-
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