Incidentally, London will be able to enjoy Low again if
he stays with the Manchester Guardian for three or four years; for within that time, I have reason to believe, the Guardian will be on sale in London as early as the London papers them- selves, and with as late news as they contain. It will, in short, be a national paper in the fullest sense, printing in London as well as Manchester, by means of a process which I think has not been adopted in this country yet on any comparable scale. A clean proof of each page will be photographed in Manchester, the photOgraph transmitted to London by cable (as ordinary photographs from a distance are transmitted today) and the paper printed from the resultant lithographic plates. It is computed that the paper thus produced will be three and a half hours- later than the editions now sent by train from Manchester--which means that the late news which has inevi- tably been absent from the London edition of the Guardian in the past will be there as it should be. This will be a notable event in British newspaper history, for the Guardian is a unique paper and abundantly deserves the wider vogue which the new departure will undoubtedly secure for it.
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