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1916-08-29 Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette Clipping: ""Iowa Man Returns From War Zone"" Page 1

IOWA MAN RETURNS FROM ZONE OF WAR

        FOUND MUCH OF INTEREST

Conger Reynolds of S. U. I. Department of Journalism, Studies Press Censorship

        Special To The Gazette.
  Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. 29. - Prof. Conger Reynolds, head of the department of journalism at Iowa University, a former member of the Register and Leader staff, who went abroad  to study press censorship and the work of the war correspondents in England and France, returned home today. 
  Professor Reynolds interviewed the correspondents in Paris and London newspapers, and government officials. Among the latter was the deputy chief censor of the British government, who explained and exhibited the entire system of postal censorship.

                   On Battle Front.
   He visited the zone of the armies in France, including part of the ruined district and the field where the hottest part of the battle of the Somme was fought. He got within sound of the big guns, but not into the trenches. He found the condition of affairs in Europe pitiful but discovered a vast deal that was interesting, without being horrible.

                 Stories After War.
   Discussing the situation abroad, he said:
   "The best stories of the European war will be told after it is all over. We in America have been more fortunate in getting news than the people in England or France, but we haven`t heard much about it. I found American correspondents piling up, to use after the war, material which they could not get past the censor. Not until peace comes shall we know the complete facts about that incident after Charleroi when Joffre thoroughly discouraged any inclination of weak men to desert or play sick by having a trainload of such men shot. Then, too, perhaps, we shall hear about many naval exploits which the British have never reported publicly, because the information would be valuable to the enemy. Fragments of such stories can be heard wherever newspaper men gather in France and England, yet they dare not print them."
               COAL CHUTES BURN.

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IOWA MAN RETURNS FROM ZONE OF WAR FOUND MUCH OF INTEREST Conger Reynolds of S. U. I. Department of Journalism, Studies Press Censorship Special To The Gazette. Iowa City, Iowa, Aug. 29. - Prof. Conger Reynolds, head of the department of journalism at Iowa University, a former member of the Register and Leader staff, who went abroad to study press censorship and the work of the war correspondents in England and France, returned home today. Professor Reynolds interviewed the correspondents in Paris and London newspapers, and government officials. Among the latter was the deputy chief censor of the British government, who explained and exhibited the entire system of postal censorship. On Battle Front. He visited the zone of the armies in France, including part of the ruined district and the field where the hottest part of the battle of the Somme was fought. He got within sound of the big guns, but not into the trenches. He found the condition of affairs in Europe pitiful but discovered a vast deal that was interesting, without being horrible. Stories After War. Discussing the situation abroad, he said: "The best stories of the European war will be told after it is all over. We in America have been more fortunate in getting news than the people in England or France, but we haven`t heard much about it. I found American correspondents piling up, to use after the war, material which they could not get past the censor. Not until peace comes shall we know the complete facts about that incident after Charleroi when Joffre thoroughly discouraged any inclination of weak men to desert or play sick by having a trainload of such men shot. Then, too, perhaps, we shall hear about many naval exploits which the British have never reported publicly, because the information would be valuable to the enemy. Fragments of such stories can be heard wherever newspaper men gather in France and England, yet they dare not print them." COAL CHUTES BURN.