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One of them , Harry Hansen , of the Chicago Daily News , tells the following story , which I give in his words : `` While we were writing , '' says Hansen , `` Richard Harding Davis walked into the writing-room of the Palace Hotel with a bunch of manuscript in his hand . With an amused expression he surveyed the three correspondents filling white paper . '' ` I say , men , ' said Davis , ` do you know when the next train leaves ? ' '' ` There is one at three o'clock , ' said a correspondent , looking up . '' ` That looks like our only chance to get a story out , ' said Davis . ` Well , we 'll trust to that . ' `` The story was the German invasion of Brussels , and the train mentioned was considered the forlorn hope of the correspondents to connect with the outside world -- that is , every correspondent thought it to be the other man 's hope .