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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 68, 20 March 1916, Page 6

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HOW NEWS SHOULD BE "DISHED UP." A QUAINT SUGGESTION. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, March 19. The ••'Times" correspondent at Washington writes: "It is one of the commonplaces of the war here that the British 'publicity' work has been bungled. The trouble is due to London, and not to the British representatives at Washington, and is caused by the unimaginative stupidity of the censorship and the inability of our statesmen to understand how news should be dished up for the Americans. The Germans would have stolen a useful marcn unless hindered by the; clumsiness of the satellites of Count \ Bernstorff. If we want the full value of i American interest and sympathy during j the nest vital months the first thing we I should do is to give American correspon- j j dents at the front the fullest opportunity j I for prompt and picturesque writing and j : their colleagues in London better; • material for the explanation of our posi- I tion in various controversies with the j United States, instead of the ponderous I official statements or stereotyped inter-: views given by officials to a score of j people at the same time. Any competent j American journalist could tell Downing Street how the thing should be done." RUSSIANS MEET AN2ACS. GLORY AT ONE BLOW. DEAR DEAD OF GALLTPOLI. (Times and Sydney Snn Services.) LONDON, March 11. In bitterly cold weather, and slushy I under foot, the visiting Russian jour-; nalists, at Mr, Fisher's invitation, and j accompanied by the Agents-General and j 1 a number of leading British and Aus- j I tralian journalists, visited Borstal' l Heath, the Australian convalescent depot, where 1,000 Anzacs paraded before them. Because of the doings of the Australians against the Turks, Russia's hereditary enemies, the dramatic aspect of the affair was felt by everybody present. Before the march-past, which took place in drizzling rain, Mr. Fisher introduced the visitors, and emphasised the great and common bond that existed between the Russians and the Australians to defeat Germany utterly. Sir Newton Moore, who is in command of the depot, permitted the men to cheer and coo-ec lustily, and later on, in the officers' mess, M. Keoroff, the proprietor and editor of the great Petrograd newspaper "Novoe Vremya," made a speech. He said that the Australians had, by a slngrs acriicvement, won the glory of a place in history which had cost the older nations many centuries to attain. M. Chuvovsky, representing the Moscow Press, said that Russia regarded the Australian graves in Gallipoli equally as dear as those of her own sons. Mr. Fisher urged the Russian Press to send representatives to Australia. Several of the Russian journalists insisted on remaining till night, conversing with the Anzacs.