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 1900, June 16.

Freedom of the Press : Correspon- dents who

suffered

during the

war in South

Africa.

��CHAPTER V.

THE NATIONAL FLAG VANISHING LONDON THE NINTH

JUBILEE OF GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.

(June 16th, 1900 June 22nd, 1901.)

FREEDOM OF THE PRESS: WAR CORRESPONDENTS.

THE following sad list of War Correspondents who have suffered during the war in South Africa appeared in the Daily Express on Wednesday, June 6th, 1900, and I have obtained the cordial permissioii of Mr. C. Arthur Pearson to place it as a per- manent record in the pages of " his old friend ' N. & Q.' " :

Mr. G. W. Steevens, Daily Mail, died of enteric during siege of Ladysmith.

Mr. Alfred Ferrand, Morning Post, killed at Ladysmith.

Mr. Albert Collett, Daily Mail, killed in action, Molteno.

Mr. Lambie, Melbourne Age, killed at Rensburg.

Col. Hoskier, Sphere, killed near Stormberg.

Mr. Ernest G. Parslow, Daily Chronicle, shot dead by Lieut. Murchison at Mafeking. Murderer, penal servitude for life.

Mr. Mitchell, Standard, captured, escaped, took enteric fever, and died.

Mr. W. Spooner, Router's, died of fever.

Mr. Charles E. Hands, Daily Mail, dangerously wounded, Maritsani (recovering by last news).

Mr. A. G. Hales, Daily News, wounded and captured.

Mr. Julian Ralph, Daily Mail, struck by shell fragment at Belmont, and severely injured in accident.

Mr. F. W. Walker, Daily Mail, wounded at Stormberg.

Capt. Wright, Daily Mail, injured while despatch riding.

Lord Delaware, Globe, wounded at Vryheid.

Mr. P. J. Reid (son of Sir H. G. Reid), Echo, seriously wounded at Kheis.

Mr. E. F. Knight, Morning Post, shot with sporting Mauser bullet at Belmont, right arm amputated.

Mr. Winston Spencer Churchill, Morning Post, captured at Chieve- ley, afterwards escaped.

Lord Cecil Manners, Morning Post, captured near Johannesburg, and liberated.

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