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Show Grave for War Correspondents. The London Daily News the other day printed a. mournful little note as to the death roll of journalists who had fallen in Egypt and 'the Soudan: "The Soudan since troublous times broke upon it has come to be a grave for war correspondents. First to find their long rest on desert sands were Edward O'Donovan, the intrepid representative rep-resentative of the Daily News, and Framk Vlzitelly, who shared the fate of Hicks Pasha's army. Power, who had also been a correspondent of the Daily News, and later of the Times, was murdered with Col. Donald Stewart in a Nile village on their way down from Khartoum. Then Capt. Gordon, correspondent of the Manchester Manches-ter Guardian, died on the desert, and a few days later Cameron, of the Standard, and St. Lcger Hubert, of the Morning Post, were killed in battle at Gnbat. At Suakim. three years later, Mr. Walker, a promising young artist of the Graphic, was killed by a shot from the dervish trenches. The Dongola expedition of 1S9C claimed another an-other victim in Mr. Garrett of the New York Herald, who (lied of enteric fever, and now another correspondent of that paper, the Hon. 11. Howard (the correspondent also of the Times, as stated above), has given up his l"e on the battlefield in front of Omdur- man." |