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First Negro WaiTHE LIBER* —Two Notable Addition)* to the Big Achievements to Credit of Recent Conference of Colored Editors at Washington.RALPH W. TYLER TO REPORT MILITARY HAPPENINGS ON WESTERN FRONT IN FRANCEUnited States Agrees to Loan 5,000,000 to Aid Republic of LiberiaWashington, D. C., Sept. 16.—Two notable additions have been made within the past few days to the list 1 of big achievements that may be1 justly credited to the influence of the I recent conference of colored editors' and leaders in Washington.Ons of the direct requests of the' editor's conference in June was thnl a reliable colored news writer be sent j to France to report the doings of the colored troops on the western front in France, for the information of the 1 anxious millions of colored Americans |In this country and to the end that'the correct story of the valor and patriotic devotion of their brethren might be told fully and in a sympathetic vein by one of their own blood and kindred.In compliance with this request, the committee on public information has designated Ralph W. Tyler, of Columbus, Ohio, former uuditor for the navy department at Washington, as a regularly commissioned war correspondent, to specialize on the conditions surrounding the colored troops In France and to make daily reports of the activities and engagements in which the colored soldiers are prominent. He will be on the staff of General Pershing, commander-in-chief of the American Expeditionary ForceD overseas. Every facility has been provided by Mr. George Creel, director of the committee on public information, for the prompt and accurate gathering of all facts that may be of interest to the colored people.First Negro to be Named as a War CorrespondentMr. Tyler is the first colored man to be named as a regular war correspondent by any government in the world. He is a native of Ohio. For seventeen years he served in various departments on the Columbus Evening Dispatch, and the Ohio State Journal, which gave him experience in the technique of the newspaper craft and afforded him opportunity for association with many influential newspaper men. This intimate contact with such forces will he invaluable to him in his labors as a war correspondent. The fact that he has a wide acquaintance with correspondents now at the front, will make it possible for him to get news concerning colored troops which, perhaps, no other colored correspondent could secure.The claims of a number of men were full considered in connection with this important assignment, but | Mr. Tyler was finally selected as the most efficient of those available. Immediately after the war was declared by the United States on Ger--xuany. Mr- Tyler wrote the Proudea V
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The Dayton Forum
Dayton, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 20, 1918
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