His friends in the Far note with some regret the of Mr, Tom Clarke from the "News-Chronicle". In rly days Clarke was on the sta of the "South China M "and after his 8 Went to Australia to serve on the "Herald" at Melbourne. His return to Fleet Street on a cabled request from the proprietors of the "Daily News" was one of the notable events became merged "as the "News: ju notable carver. When lig paper Chronicle" a few years ago, he te:
ined at the helm and the reputation of the Journal has been main. tained with ite distinctive traditions, despite the fact that it has had also to keep in the breathless whit! of the [competition which exists between it fand the three other "popular" London dailies—the "Daily' Mail, "Daily Express" and "Daily Herald' The report of his. resignation does not specifically indicate the reason it is not possible to judge whether the permanent relingulshment of his ation with the. "News-Chront in question, Like Mr. Thomas Marlowe, "who resigned from the "Daily Mail" a few years ago after a difference with Lord Rothermere wor the American debt issue, he wy remain on the directorate, "His lends, recalling with pleasure his Galighttal Journalistic reminiscences "My Northeliffe Diary", will wen: ture to hope. that he may now ind Jeisure to iva his attractive pen its ting in "another volume.
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