It is not, however, Lord Balfour but another Burleizh—Mr, Bennett Burleizsh of the "Daily Telexaph "—who has done nest to raise people's hopes. Recognising the danger of premature announcements Lord Kitchener has during the past few days exercised a more rigid censorship than ever over the newspaper correspondents. Nothing whatever bearing upon the pregress of the negotiations has been allowed to go through; but Mr. Burleigh devised an ingenious method of gelting news to his paper. He cabled to his mother. Probably the censor did not realise that Lawson" was Sir Edward Lawson of the
delayed the dispatch of even that message Atthe "Daily Te egta: h" office it was course realised that Mr, Burleigh would certainly not be coming home unless the war were atanend. At the sine time a told Mr. Burleigh sent to his paper aA message which conta ned merely the words, Whitsuntide greetings." Tt was not a' pre-arranged code message; it was merely a cheerful message designed on the =pur of the moment to signify as clearly ax he dared with the fear of the censor before his eyes that all was going well.
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