PRESS CORRESPONDENT REGULATIONS.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11877, 26 April 1904, Page 8

PRESS CORRESPONDENT REGULATIONS.

These long-expected regulations appeared in the " Official Gazette" on February 10th, says the Japan "Daily Mail." Tlie gist of them, so far as foreign correspondents are concerned, is as follow.: (1) Applications must come through a Consul or a Minister, and \h? name of the paper must be stated. (2) Persons applying to accompany the troops must have been at least one year engaged in journalistic work. (3) Correspondents that cannot speak Japane&o may take an interpreter, but must, send in his name, accompanied by a guarantee bearing the signature of his employer, such guarantee to state the main facts relating to him. (4) Foreign correspondents may take a servant, but must observe the same preliminary routine as in the case of an interpreter. (5) Several newspapers may be required to 1-ave combined representation. (6) Each correspondent must carry a permit, which will be furnished by the authorities'. (7) Correspondents will be attached to' the staffs of tlie Divisions. (8) Correspondents should wear foreign costume, and should carry on the loft shoulder a white badge, with the name of their newspaper in red. (9) Correspondents should carry their permits, and be prepared to show "them whenever required. (10) Correspondents must observe all directions issued for their guidance by the staff to which they are attached. Any disobedience of such directions will .expose a correspondent to be sent back. (11) All correspondence, epistolary or telegraphic, must be submitted for examination by the staff before being sent. All use of cipher wjN bo unlawful. (12) All "possible facilities will bo afforded to correspondents, and provisions will be supplied if necessary in the field-; also, they will be allowed on application, to share in the use of vehicles and vessels engaged for tlie public service. (13) Correspondents violating the military criminal code or the military intelligence regulations will be liable to be punished by court-martial. (14) The above provisions from (6) to (13) inclusive shall be applicable to interpreters and servants of correspondents