Show n n ITAR WAR CORRESPONDENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA Some of the Brave Fellows to Whom the Newspaper Reading Public Is Indebted I For Daily Reports of the Stir Stirring Stirring ring Incidents of the Boer British Struggle 1 just nt III the prel S enl ent time hold holt halt n a ruining diM dIF appointed and heartbroken war i irre Some of them are hero here heron n Ii some are scattered about jut The Th struggle going on at be the Boers una tha not the tho journal journalistic tlc I hat was expected This Thill Is not I IS 2 any dearth ot of good news or nt at literary material In It Is i i hang around heaps and heaps ot of II rut But not on one word can enn be sent out or of country The military time two which the tho anI of at with the tho rest of at tho world and ond fo 10 th ar con can do noth In jg but sll RU on his and swear and walt for tor the to io re rem m or the tho III ow goinG mail t l carry hIli belated dispatches home ward The Tho c censorship that hM hai been hero at Cape ape Town Is very er strIct indeed Practically HO Is 5 now nl at towed to go through excepting ot of the reports ot of the differ different cot ent rs the tho to and from the war va In London When It Is i that men some ot of the most t men In the world have come thousands ot of to behold the different sights to be seen during I i iP j P Et F Fp p I rr II tI rit M hn J the campaign and to report on th the same Mme yet after arrivIng hero here have been completely and absolutely mUzzled theIr exasperation os as well as that ot of theIr editors may be realized But Dut the outbreak wilt come In time The wait has hils been n a long one but when one that Is removed there ill il be many n a hair raising story g gO to and Toda Today note honks are full tull to The Tho dramatic and tragic Incidents ot of the tho campaign have Fave been Innumerable and all ull that HIP war correspondent asks for tor now Is isa a hance to unload lie he unloads I 3 k out for tor him While n a few tew ot of the correspondents JI have e como come back disconsolately to Cape CapeTown CapeTown Town from the front the they C uld be ot of no service to their paper during II a war when sImen they were forbidden the use ot of the telegraph the great ma majority ot of the writers and ond artists who JIB have been sent down hero Iere b by the tho grent geat dailies and weeklies are arc staying right up IP In the thick or of the fighting getting all the experience there Is to be and notebooks and plate boxes with tenes lenes and glimpses and anecdotes of at the battlefield that will be worth good goodgold goodgold gold to them In time to come The few tew American correspondents ho are about the Cate nt at the present time fin find or probably have found that the th BrItish officer Is far more strict with the newspaper man at i the front than was the om am i c Crr r during the war The English ivar nr correspondent IS look el upon as Practically n a member t f the army staff starr the front takes rank as nn an officer In drawing f fod JOd for tor and provender for tor his horse While ho Is ot at the front too lie Is as thoroughly under military law lawas ns as though he were n a Tommy AtkIns on the line and ho finds It to obey every order of at hIs superIor om oAt cers erg unless ho he walh to get Ket In trouble and perhaps be hustled off orr home or put In Irons This attitude of at the British officer toward the tho was wal well ex cx ed luring during Lord re recent recent cent campaign In the Sudan In the mIdst ot of the advance and ond just after the bombardment ot of nil all WAr W correspondents wore were ordered back This order came just when the campaign was reaching Its most Interesting and strikIng phase Every newspaper man In the tho army was made to scuttle back home or It at least to or Cairo just when then the they wanted most to see what Was going on Although the correspondent In South Africa a has ha been muzzled ho has not yet pt been be sent back tram from the firing line I Never before has n a campaign been car tied on SUch lIuch microscopic lion from time tho eye eC or of export expert and critic anti correspondent than thull this same African struggle Although lit little littie tie tle Ia has yet et been saId oer ovary move is III hc be beIng Ing watched cw every advance criticised and lion it Il is IB nil all over ocr there be n a heap of und mind dl discussion cu slon about jU just l what huller BUller should hlL have ve done here and French should have done there and White hite In seine other place and Gatacre In still I have beel trying to fInd out some somo something thing anent ment time tho different correspond I I h i H I I II I c cA A TUlLE GRAPHIC NG L I It Iv I v S r I I Ici t ci i 1 I i ir r 7 v 1 1 iL ii I I LI GEoG 4 r LYNCH 1 S EARL muI I DEIA WARR RY Gloat I 1 I PEARSE EF 1 in inI I AiL I i 1 I I 4 ERS ERSS 4 I S 4 i I 9 J 11 I 1 f 4 V f fl l now knocking about the Capo Cape and have just realized the number of ta fa inous men inca we have watchIng the war wat Ot of all the correspondents now In South Frederic Villiers Is perhaps the most illustrious This veteran war art artIst 1st antI and writer has hns made hIs name ta a with all readers t r military lit Ill literature for tor the last 20 years CalS SIr Mr VU Vii Hers lIers Is not yet et quite GO years ears ot of age but n a life lite ot of adventure and hardship has made him n a prematurely old man manAs manAs As early as 11 he went vent to Servia dur durIn during In ing th the war there for the tho London and It Is worth noting that to toda today da day ho he Is representing the some same publication cation hero here In South Africa lie He was WIlS also wIth the Russians durIng their In Invasion of in III 1817 and went along with Lord Ch Charles rles In Inthe inthe the Condor In 1612 During time the follow tollo following Ing year he as invited to Moscow by Alexander III and was present at Abu Klea In Ills next assignment was the war being with the tho Japanese mm during the battle ot of Ping Yang and also participating In Inthe inthe the march In an and the taking or of Port lort Arthur In Isil DurIng the year ear 1897 Villiers the Arm army In Us its brief but Inglorious campaign against Turkey am anti during this war used time the graph t for r the tho first firs time in III the history ot of He also hore intrO Intra intrOduced for tor the tho first time lIno the bicycle 1 as asa a feature In III European warfare year he accompanied the on hiS advance up UI the tho Nile anti and was itt at the tho bloody nt at No ho he Is seeking froh laurels In time tho present struggle agaInst time tho Doers anti although time the reports he has been blon able to lO send lend back to hIs home paper been pitifully meager menser It Is expected that thoro will smili bo be u a book out outon outon on the campaign before many months monh have come and gone gOlle Another equally well known war writer and ancl who ho Is waiting BIting to dis nt at the tho front is 16 time the old ohl warhorse M elton Prior whose victuro ot of the scenes acene ot of the tho campaign have already aroused a great or of Th They have hae been appearing In The Tho Sketch and the London Neva from It Js ls report reported ed hero here they hoy have been widely In AmerIcan papers paNlI elton Melton Prior has hns represented 0 through no less titan 21 campaigns EO co cobe he be Is b by n means a new one at th the business It Is 13 Interesting to mention that he went vent through the Doer war or of In tact fact there has not been nn an campaign during tho last 30 years that has not him hanging somewhere rc l about bOu t the tirIng line draw drawing ing 1 ad taking notes as fast as hIs nimble fingers could go 10 lie Is a bus busy fuss tussy little red faced English Englith man oll self satisfied bumptious and irritable ot on yet a fin line artist withal and always ready to Ilca nn any danger dancer or any hardship In the quest for fornes lr ne nes The of t medals and crosses he can display would put many manyan an old arm army ol to shame for In hIs da day he has hns done dono a great number or of big thIngs and knocked about with many n a great man manOf manOf Of the war correspondents In South Africa perhaps the one In whom hom Interest at the tho Cape ot at least hn has cen centered centered Is LIeutenant Winston Churchill the t talented I and somewhat audacious fon on of at Lady Churchill He hall ha been welt described here as the Harding Davis Dals of at the Trans Ra war tor or ho has n a number of at the little failings of the groat American lie He takes delight In advertising himself It is claimed 1 anti It must be confessed he has been en brilliantly successful ul at this since ho hohu hohas hu has himself captured b by time the has displayed Kroat groat and bray cry under II a galling fir during time nt at attack tack on time tho armored train wIlt when ho he was cut oft ott and since has escaped front hiv hili captors and I is It Is reported avain malIc prisoner All th these 11 escapades have United to make Churchill most picturesque In journalistic tlc air ales elas nt at the tho front trant Just where ho is II at present It IN III to tell though It Is likely nil as not lie ho vIii give time the skip before long lie Ho Is III it A cool specimen ot of humanity and every overy one who 11 0 8 him fe is quite assured that he will make himself comfortable whir over ever ho he may be and wilt will bus busy gathering u up nes no matter where the tho have quartered him off Just n a tow ow days ago ngo n it friend ot of Win Winston ston stOll Churchill was me inc that served through time tho sudan campaign with Jh h lancers rs was one ot those thole who vimo took part In inthe the he famous at al ilk Impressions ot of this campaign I 1 be believe lieve he embodIed In n a series erles of t what have have boon beon descrIbed as brilliant letters to The MornIng Post London lIe was also wIth the SpanIsh forces In Cuba durIng the year ear 1595 and two years ears later when attached to the ty Punjab infantry tier served d with the field force torce and was pres present present ent at the operations against lie He was also Ills it is said a member or of the expeditionary torce orco as an order orderly ly officer to Sir illiam Lockhart It wall as ani only early In th the present year ear that Ito ho resigned his hili In the lint ish army and made nn an unsuccessful et ef effort tort fort to enter I English having a sort ot of hankering after the strenuous life lite Not proving very er successful stul at thIs he sought fought refuge In South Africa and here he Is todo today a prisoner cooling his hla heels In Pretoria He has hns written two or books book and all ot of them have hae been moro more or less successful Ills African experiences are sure to be good for tor another volume and that It will be ben bea n a popular success It if ho lives to write It ItIs ItIs Is a foregone conclusion ca case r Is not unlike that of at Lady Sarah Wilson who although nominally 1 a nurse at Mafeking was I really n it correspondent for time thu London Chronicle In tho war Lady Sarah Wilson 1111 taken by bythe bythe the fleer Doe It was expected that she would bo be nt at once returned when It WitS seen that she ehe Will vai under the Insignia of time tho Red Betl Cross however time the liS as astute tute burghers d declined to do and there thero wall vas considerable Indignation here nt at Cape Town when It was re reported that the noer floers wore were offering to exchange this lady for When It itis is 18 remembered that turn eti ed back to lo the tho hoots noer several dozen ot of theIr own on captured women the tho action netlon of at the In thIs affair dOes dOos not increase their popularity with tile the Lady Ludy Sa Sarah Wilson did not let get R a chance to 0 send In much copy to her r but It IS more mor than like likely likely ly sh she will have havu some om vary or Interesting toes tales to tell when sh she finally passes over to her friends and time the pres present presen ent en struggle It II a thing or of the tho pail palt clover reporter who to all on the simm Ilp paper r with Vinston IC 1 P Knight Mr Is now liens here In Cape I nursing tI a wounded stump of at it right i cnn for tor a Hoer Doer bullet ot at t made amputatIon Knight Is veli known here lit its It a reckless sort of oC dare daredevil devil who would go anywhere for a bit bitof ot of news or face ace anything tor on a tOr Or his paper During Durin the tho Spanish American war he was The Tho Times re ne hi it Cuba and his letters to Lon Len London Lendon don d describing that campaign UI 11 I attracted much attention us ins will be 1111 remembered Knight Is h by no means n a greenhorn nt at atthe the tho for tor his military ex cx extend baele about to 30 years ago ngo when hm ho he accompanied d the French In the tho var then thIs writer has chronicled the tho fortunes the comedies and the tho tragedies or of man many campaigns In different quarters ot of this bl bir world Including such expeditions as al althe the operation time the Mitta belo the l French expedition Into the Sudan Ant anti time tho struggle Nat urn I his different reports ot of such BUch MELTO PRIOR 44 I Ef I IV V V 1 7 scenes have hwe given shen him material for tor many books book nil all ot of which nrc Me popular enough In England but not nor quite tu St well known In America Another ot of the old warhorses who have been gagged b by the press censor here Is Edtl de lit In Warn who came out to South AfrIca as the special correspond correspondent cat ent for tor time the London Globe I have hao been trying to find out something about his personality and but have never yet et hail had II a glimpse ot of him ns as ho he Is now noV somewhere up country I find however that Earl de Ia 11 Warr Is still n a young oung man or of some som SO 0 years and a 11 second son ot of the late lato Earl do II Ia Warn whom he succeeded In 1896 When he was onlO only 20 O years old he macic a 0 trip to the west coast ot of Australia on n a 70 10 ton yacht and showed his or of adventure 11 by on engaging In the pearl fishery fisher business In southern waters vater Timis Is his first experIence AS n a war correspondent nt at atthe the front trant though he has seen soen n a lilt bit or of bush lightIng fighting In Australia on the south coast The Daily the london paper which h probably more war pie pIc pIctures tures than an any other Is well represented at the front Its most prominent man IOnn here Is W F Maud who ho for tor over four years has represented The Graphic In various arlous parts ot of the world and ma may fairly be considered as asan an 1111 old campaigner though lie he Is still stilla n a young oung man and Mel Melton Iel ton Prior Mr faulls first foreign servIce for tor The Dali Graphic was Ins Un Undertaken undertaken toward the tho close ot of 1895 when the crisIs In Turkey was nt at Its lis height and the powers powen were vore doing their best to force orce the sultan to redress the cut lut ot of the tho Armenians rime Graphic of at the tho oppressed Armenians which sent ent home to England were among the most moving contributions sent to the press on the ct and hIs reputation In his hIli native land as a keen observer and nn an anable able artist Then lie he vent to witness the Cretan and some fomo time later late went vent to Armenia ills HIs second trip s carried out amid many perU perils and he wn was forced to go through the affected territory In dIsguIse and with no smith smAil difficulty Then came the war which found Maud hastening to time the trent front to watch opera operations operations tram from the Greek side Jero ho he witnessed all the principal engAge engagements ments After Arter thIs he went vent to the Sudan accompanied and the tho sirdar In his hll ad vance anco tip liP the tho Nile being ono one ot of those correspondents who wore vore I nt back 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