When War Correspondents fall out, honest newspaper readers have to come by their own—decisions.
Admiral Alexeieff differs from his journalistic confreres in one thing. He doesn't exaggerate.
The same thing happens in football matches sometimes. The reporter who has to record an adverse score for his own village team adds that "the best team lost.' the Japanese were "cowardly and treacherous," it was a moral victory for Russia.
The moral character of Russia is; of course, like Potiphar's wife, above suspicion.
When the Russian Viceroy admitted "some damage," ho perhaps had ix mind Mr. Kriigor's "moral and intellectual" item.
Tt is useful to remember that Russian reports must necessarily minimise defeats and magnify victori Tt need not be forgotten that the same thing applies to Japanese versions.
The Japanese regard all their geese as swans. The Russians classify a Japanese swan as an'anemic rice-bird.
Before the war, the naval men sneered at the ships of the other side. When one is captured, however, a phenomenon like that of the fish that got away is observable.
Sometimes a bad speller has a spel] of intelligence. Of such was the junior who headed an item of telegraphic news "tell-a-eram."
There need be no mystery about the paper which records exonts before they is the day of Marconi-crams.
La Rocuzrovcautp, Ju.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.