After the war, Martin became Military Correspondent for the "Daily Chronicle" and in this capa city he xed to attend the German Annual Military Manoeuvres.—He ko German and French extremely well, Donohue had a kind of seg|cond sight, it might almost be called, and had the happy faculty of being on the spot just when he was most wanted. Minor illustrations lof this T forget, but one that Martin told me about himself, in addition to information T gained from other sources, remains vividly in my recollection. When the Portuguese [suddenly staged their revolution and seized King Manoel Donohue was in Lisbon. The revolutionaries eatabiished a very strict censorship, in fact, for three days no press messages were allowed to be sent out.
[But Martin was not the kind of man to kick his heels around even such a charming city as Lisbon.—He} promptly chartered a small steamer jand proceeded at full speed to the nearest Spanish port whence he leonid telegraph. On the way _he wrote his report of the revolution which filled, T think, 16 columns of ithe "Daily Chronicle." Tt was one lof the finest descriptive reports of picturesque and historical _event that T have ever read. It may be remarked in passing, that the "Daily Chronicle" did a very sporting thing on this occasion by supplying "The Times" with a copy of Donohue's Report and the two papers publish-Jed it simultaneously. Even if "The imes" paid half the expense, sous certainly a fine thing for a paper to share such a trémendovs The next time I met Marti in Tokyo, where prac great war corresponder small fry such as myself were running up colossal bills at our hotels land vehemently cursing the Japanese War Office and all its But} at last Martin got away with the Ist army and shortly afterwards I Joined General Oku's 2nd army. Aiter the battle of Lizoyang, Sir Tan Hemilton, who was British] Military Attaciss with the Ist army Jeame over to visit us and with him Jeame Donohue among other corres-Pondents. As there did not seem
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