HOW BISMARCK’S SECRETARY “WORKED” THE LONDON PRESS.

New Zealand Mail, 15 February 1900, Page 47

HOW BISMARCK’S SECRETARY “WORKED” THE LONDON PRESS.

Mr T. p. O’Connor tells the following curious story in M.A.P.” : ” Dr Moritz Busch, who died the other cay was Bsmarek’s secretary, and, during the busy years after 1870, he was specially entrusted with the work of "inspiring the foreign Press. The Reptile hund, as it was called in Germany, met the necessary expenses. Everyone “knows fjiJ-p .? rg ? action of the newspapers of Fatherland were bribed into supportBismarck s policy, but very few are aware how widely the same system wal ln °ther countries. Years ago J v,nriA documentary evidence that convinced me Busch was successfully emnlovmg reptile methods here in Loifdon P He trte d HflT mda u OUt p , J ? n ’ but is vvas effeeb ? f° uld not bribe the actual ♦ditors or proprietors of any really importstess^r- *»«■• “ss.

"WORKING THE PRESS.” (latfwal ?' V ri^ mate f £ ellds in those 'i''v"i.;.°ha'd . be : o un papers. One him tint twu tt ? r fr , oln Busch, reminding J H c met 111 student days, and wifh p, lcr f L> be would fail m from L p^. oposal > he would be sent nSi i*? tlm9 articles on German and U “cimSinf Uld °i ten con tain special p U ? ° information. All he was oLtheSe 0 6*wtI a V t 0 toucb up the English offer ril 10na ’ copy I bem but and 'vrote A fl^, ?omc for which he and he wan tniX®\ was enclosed, the articles he d ”pTaced e ’^ 0U Of be P3ld could also fivoL pl p ■ ,Of course, he he would <jn raw pay from the paper, and elusive informer Ulre f r9 P u tation for exormation as to German policy. DECLINED WITHOUT THANKS! could not° Wro - t f to Busch that he But he kenf fg o Consider suc h a proposal. terLlfa,,, S* the specimen article as an inS MrtoTif A nd uow comes the weeks tiLtn• he Btol- y- Within a few morning naneiXf a PPf ar ed in a London had f B ta° f blgh standing. Busch "The wonder is /w ,T n A 0 do his worbarticle, of which b»v, he a V T tu s ed to use the to London bad already sent a copy have shown the could tor'whose oontFw do ? ll! ? ent to the ediEut he took o ( Utor + had been B ot at. He did not P nZ step.5 tep . t t° ex P9 39 the trick, volve himself pX 17 d bi ? dut y to inThese rentilo nv r i P ° s ? Hbel action. bad a double L tlcles lu fereign papers flnenced oDintoA Ar 86 ’, First > they 1 inthevreacteAl on r<f^ r ° ad ’ . b . ut > secondly, mary 0 f them German opinion, for a sum“amPrftM SS-.I1 0 ? t el egrapbed to the Germans th a t"Eurnno ° 00nv,nce all seed Germarek on the back!™ patH ” B Prince Bis-