WHY WAR NEWS IS SCANTY.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11916, 10 June 1904, Page 5

WHY WAR NEWS IS SCANTY.

■ Mr; ■ The Japanese- War Office if sued on April 111 i~; 25th tlie regulations respecting the field f-f telegraph, according,to Which newspaper i,'.:, cotwspowlentfl attached to tlte Japanese ;T.armies are to bo allowed the use of the («?'field wires for transmitting war news. ?s .'.The privilege, however, is only nominal 'f-fe-and not of much practical benefit, ways a l-VVTokio correspondent, for the total number Jjtjflf meswnges which the Japanese and |fi? ! foreign correspondents attaclned to each 'Vi-itirmy may send each day is only five in '$?&J*paneso and five in English, each mesC'A'* l^o containing only 150 Japancso cliarac■!'W- tws, or fifty word*. Altogether the aixteen foreign war correspondents may only ifellWd between them 250 words a day, ■\ : -' imdly enough to describe a skirmish. ■ .|||bOWING TO THE SPEAKER'S CHAIR.' pfe'.Tho custom of bowing to tho Speaker's '_'•'', i&'&iur in'the House of Commons, whether .'" ■■ lII'I^ O OT va c* ll ' t » I* »-i*i to have had. a ■-,')_ «||iua_nt origin. At one time tlie Commons I ffllJi' s ? 1 * ■■ * n ■ wnn * is now. St. • Stephen's Hall. '#iiii|^ ucft wa * formerly tn® Chapel Royal of " \(lkn> Polaeo of Westminster. After tho RoI||ormation Edward VI. gave over tho Ifihapci to the Commons for their delibera§Moju», tho Speaker's chair being placed just gfit front of where the altar stood. Tbe originally mode to a Catholic ™rjne survived the change, and is con|ifcucd to-day by members of all denominoWptyi/' With this may be paralleled the fffl&jp. to tlio navy of saluting the quarterthe capstan was* coythe Union Jack, to which every :imlm took off his cap. The Union, Jack Mm disappeared, but the saluting survives. m> -.. ~