MARCEL HUTEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12409, 29 August 1918, Page 3

MARCEL HUTEN.

A REAL WAR PROPHET. Before the war begun (snys a, London pnpoi) Marcel Hntin’s very name was scarcely known to his native. Paris; a ew months later it was known to tbo whole world over a s that of Hie. greatest journalist- ot the war, a man whoso amazing skill in getting nows in j advance of all his rivals, and whose uncanny gifts oi forecasting coming events ' made the world wonder.’' , Jn duly, ]t)M, M. .M„tin WiVS an ohsonre reporter on the ‘‘ Echo de Paris,” L°, a y v° >s the, sii))remc chronicler and prophet of the war, whoso bulletins are cabled to every part of the earth, and rend with an avidity and respect , accorded to no other journausr. tactics ami strategy he does not profess to know anything. He is, he tell . .V ou > a, simple gatherer of news; lint, no man can gather vital nows as ho can. or base more, accurate , !t ' vas l»c Who. on Jnly 31 startled the world by declaring that (.rent Britain would fight for t’ranee, when few believed it possible; am! this was the first of a hundred prophecies " which have come equal! v true. And what is the secret of if. Butin’s success A positive genius for knowing where to gob news, how to get it. am] wliat deductions .to draw from it. That is all, but it is everything. It is what has made Marcel Hu tin the king of war journalist®. lie has made it his business to know everybody from statesman to general, nno can help him in his quest for newsand ho lias a remarkable gift of ingiauating himself'with them, inspiring confidence, and extracting information. His clover head and well-balanced judgment do the rest. He writes no articles. He puts what he has to sa.y in a. few pithy sentences; but every word tells.