Show PEN HEROES IIN SOUTh All1CA I Difficulties War Correspondents Have to Contend with in X Getting Permission to Go to the Front Owing to 1 1 British War Office Regulations London Jan Notwithstanding the difficulties risks hardships and other unpleasant features of the avocation there are just as many men anxious to become war correspondents as noon ns a war breaks anywhere as If the task i I 1 A L itie 1JJ g iiiiit f l Iff I WI A < X CI 1 t V j J 1 lr 6 Mi i4 1 1 rJ B < 1 Ad > iAJtr kif J I j t h I bi I s AfV i i s z > r l l 2 = z314 I m YZ r if rIU liIJ J k t 1 r P 1 1 I = i Mr Ernest Smith of the Morning Leader He is shut up in Lady smith I was that of going to report the proceedings pro-ceedings of an Inaugural dinner or the opening of a peace conference The fever ot news getting Is born in some men and when It is combined with an adventurous spirit there is no more fascinating Idea for such people than that of getting as near to the thick of the carnage as possible It is not surprising therefore to learn that there are hundreds of persons at the present time striving to get to the front In South Africa by forming a conjunction conjunc-tion with cither the Boer or iSiJiish forces for of course that Is tim only I way to get the real war news or such as any reputable editor would care to handle The reason that an abnormal number of men who either follow this profession profes-sion regularly or who have now an ambition am-bition to do so are unable to do the J i work which they are anxious to commence com-mence is that the regulations of the British War ofllce were unknown to most of them when they started In order to get to the front with the British army it Is necessary to have credentials from the War olllcc and it t W l rl ti c ri I I < iTh I l th4W 1 t c t t t W I f < N wi 10iJ r r t f I lli m 11 Mr George Lynch of the Illustrated London News j Is for these that many men anxious to get into harness are waiting idly in South African ports or somewhere in the vicinity The modern war correspondent Is an absolute necessity and when his duty is properly performed he Is undoubted ly one of the moBt useful adjuncts of the battlefield He sees with the eyes of the public and writes Instinctively what he sees and feels of events unless his accounts unhappily censored by Government officials Unbiased by official prejudices or any considerations of rank he chronicles the brave act of a liner as readily as he does that of his Colonel and by giving a plain unvarnished story of the fight he often reveals unintentionally I lack of ability In commanders which might be covered up in ofllclal dis patches His skill In getting news must nat urally be coupled with great personal courage leading him to take the great L J 1 t Mr Melton Prior of Sketch I cst risks and must be supplemented by just as much skill In getting his news I onto the wire so that it will reach the expectant public at the earliest possible moment Thus through his intrepidity and I ablltly not only do the anxious ones at home learn earliest and oftencst of the chances of danger or promotion to their j absent ones In the l1eld but the future historian Is ably to cull flom their reports I re-ports those Hashes of local colorand enthusiasm born of the moment I through actual participation 1n the Hne That it IH considered no small glory to become a war correspondent may be noted from the fact that the vary best nd most valued newspaper men on the jtaff are the first to seek the coveted l honor and he present llFt of eorre i A i f ii spondents at the front In South Africa Includes one of Britains noble Earls In the person of Earl DC La War who Is at present present representing the London Globe The EniTs wife was formerly the Hon Muriel Brassey a daughter of Lord Brnssey tin Governor Gover-nor of Victoria Australia He is of a roving and adventurous nature and although only 30 years of age has made himself well known by private yachting yacht-ing expeditions undertaken on his own account and as the commander of a pearl Puhcry expedition whkh was exceptionally ex-ceptionally siKCLS ful and called for the exorcise of considerable ability Mr E F Knight who represents the 1 Morning Post wns ounded at Belmont j quite seriously nnd Is now at Capetown I Ills light arm has been amputated and f ri 74H ks 1 T1 Mr W J Maud of the Daily Graphic I his recovery Is now expected He Is l ono of the most able among a very able crowd of men and Is absolutely fearless fear-less Mr Knight was stationed In Cuba Cu-ba during the SpanishAmerican warn war-n correspondent for the Times He I A V 4i t Mr Reinhold Thiele of the London Graphic has been a war correspondent for the past thirty years and Is also an author of repute His experiences Include service during the Hunza Naza trouble the Malabele war the French war In Madagascar i the GraecoTurklsh war and the Soudan campaign Mr Milton Prior Is I the representative of the Sketch but for over thirty years principally identified Kith the Illustrated i Illus-trated London News He has been In more campaigns than any living Eng lish journalist He accompanied the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorne when they first halted 1 Canada was at Athens with the Prince of Wales in 1S75 was present at the Berlin conference i con-ference and also went out to Africa during the last Boer war Mr Frederick VlllierB Is I an artist war correspondent known all over the world He Is I now in Africa for the Sketch and was formerly with the L7 A f 1 Mr E F Knight or the Morning Post Ho was wounded at Belmont I and has had nn arm amputated I Graphic Ills experiences include the I Servian war the RussoTurklsh war Abu Klea the ChlnoJapancse war I the GraecoTurklsh war and many others I Mr W F Maud who represents the Daily Graphic Is an iplercstjng personality I per-sonality He Is likewise an artist correspondent corre-spondent and a Globetrotter He has boon conspicuous chiefly through rep resenting the Armenian troubles In Turkey the insurrection in Crete and other manors connected with the East ern question Mr George Lynoh has gom to the Transvaal for the Illustrated London N wn lie has worked In Cuba with StePhen Crane and has had remarkable adventures for so young a man j Mr Ernest Smith of the Morning Leader Is a very disgusted man at present bottled up as he In at Laav smith and unable to do much of mo ment for his paper He sent home some very good work however I before the Investment of the town bv the Boors was completed The men who are representing the British payers at the front have been selected with great care exclusive of I their acknowledged ability for the I British War olllce issueg credentials to none but those upon whlch It feels that it can rely for absolute Impartially I It undoubtedly l has good cause for taking such a course upon general principles for It would tl1ewlse h posslblo fot spies whose information might prove Invaluable to the enemy to obtain rod > ntlnll and nil tjifi t advan I tages which they afford for obtaining correct information by becoming war correspondents Theiv are undoubtedly among the hundreds who have made application I at the War oillcc within the past few weeks many who have done so for this purpose and the formalities which arc gone through with before such credentials creden-tials can be obtained are partially Intended In-tended to cover such case The formalities which are referred to r consist in passing a number of olll clals at the War ofllce before the one 1st 1 reached who has the i power to decide I upon the aw and In presenting to him a most definite statement In the fullest I detail as to yourself previous work and I II I 1 II I I fr 4wfJqJ1 Qr 1 I I Jk b f 7y > I rZJ j t rJ y rt V f I 1 I rl o I I 1 If J I y 1 I 1 t I t tt i rg w I q 1if l P 1 gj i1ifJJi < JAl1 1 o I 1 1iftil J 2t0J J Earl De La Warr of the Globe connections and he Journals you Intend In-tend to represent and those alone It is as well to be truthful at the outset I for searching inquiry will be made Into the accuracy of these statements and any deviation from the intentions dc i l 4 M Y 0 Jl I il C l I r J t W y f1 l J I Jn1 I I i4 I b I e r I r 4 o < 46 I 3 tar t J t i XIZ I ry I 7 Y rI ilyfp l t1 Y < f tftwnry I 1 Jr 11 r A1 > J Mr Fred Villicrs of Sketch i clared made by I the correspondent subsequently sub-sequently will certainly result In his being be-ing deprived of the credentials at once The privileges attendant upon securing secur-ing the credentials however art fully wyrth all the trouble attending the acquisition of them Once arrived sit the scene of action that being the corps to which the correspondent cor-respondent has requested to be attached at-tached he Is furnished at thfc Governments Govern-ments cost with two horses a servant and all the food necessary with them together with authorization to be at the front a all times The Immense advantages of having such privileges as these cannot be estimated es-timated by any one who dops not un derstand the almost Impossible conditions i condi-tions which will surround those correspondents corre-spondents who disappointed at not receiving re-ceiving credentials attempt to face the difliculties of securing war news of any value in South Africa From the best sources of information It has been learned that even If they should succeed In reaching the Boer lines their reception Is not likely at all to be favorable as Oom Paul has no liking for such attaches to the military staffs of hlo commanders |