The correspondents previously had been informed that, as they were under semi-military law, they could not depart without military permission. They left anyhow upon the instructions of their newspapers.
Military authorities said the reason for their new order was that pilots after combats and reconnaissance flights could not be bothered answering questions. The correspondents retorted that they bothered the pilots no more than the service press officers who obtain information on which the official handouts are based.
This insurrection followd various manifestations of dissatisfaction over the War Office's delay in permitting accredited correspondents to go to Norway with the British Expeditionary Forces—United Press.
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