BUELOW AND JOURNALISM.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12400, 16 November 1908, Page 4

BUELOW AND JOURNALISM.

At a garden party which he gave in their honour. Prince Baelow, the Imperial Chancellor, told 400 members of the Industrial Press Oongrass, which'sat during Septembar in Berlin, that the spirit of S9lf-con-iiience which he-has carried through life dates from an occasion in the early, eighties in Pans,, when, the lite M. de blowitz offered him £1200 a year tc join the staff of "The Times." The young diplomatic attache, as Prince Buelow was then, had askd M. de Bolwitz what chances he though he might have in journalism. The Prince said that tho first pres3 mention he got was when he was in charge at Athens. The press said that Bismarck would nend to be a great statesman tore-*' pair the blunders of Germany's representative in Grßßce. PyiDca Buelow obssTved that while journaliatg of every nation should ba patriots, they, ought not to forget' to do. justice to the rights of foreign. nations. He paid a tribute to the power of tbe^press as an instrument for good or evil, adding, "The statesman does not live who can afford to ignore it. " '..'.