BLOWITZ THE GREAT.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10667, 11 June 1902, Page 1

BLOWITZ THE GREAT.

The secret of the jnarvellous success of M. De Blowite, wno has resigned as Paris correspondent of the London Times,' is -said to haveiveen due, to the absolute and* complete' confidence with which he inspired , the, steieamen, the politicians, the diplomats with whom he was brought in contact, and which" he never betrayed. - They -all felt that ■they could 'depend absolutely' on his discretion, no matter, how great the temptation, from ft' journalistic point of view, to do .otherwise, and' when the 'Duke" Decases, ! ' while playing billiards at the Quai d'Orsay, after dinner one evening, suddenly receked the news of the purchase by the British Government of the Khedive's stock in the Sues Canal Company, J and wild with rage, broke forth- into. -frantic threats *gsi]ljt the Extglim3». GorCKxtzaonh, dxmuging M. de Btawits-to mike known bu indign'ttiou and the fact that he was .bent on retaliation, the correspondent of the -Times; who had.-I)een< one of the .party present,, although he saw the value of the news, made no use of dtf The 'next day he met' 'the Duke, who had*- -recovered his * *enie», and' who. grasping him fay both- hands, exclaim*; ed: "I shall never forget . what jon have done for us. Toij, have sacrificed, journalistic success to your sense of duty and to the cause of peace."