He was arrested by one army, kept four days in a cell, and then warned if he was again found within the lines of that army he would go to jail for six months; one month later he was once more arrested, and told if he again came near the front he would go to prison for two years.
Two weeks later he was back at the front.

Such a story causes the teeth of all the members of the General Staff to gnash with fury.

You can hear them exclaiming: "If we caught that man we would treat him as a spy." And so unintelligent are they on the question of correspondents that they probably would.
When Orville Wright hid himself in South Carolina to perfect his flying- machine he objected to what he called the "spying" of the correspondents.

One of them rebuked him.

"You have discovered something," he said, "in which the whole civilized world is interested.
If it is true you have made it possible for man to fly, that discovery is more important than your personal wishes.