Oldtimers aver that the war cor respondent of to-day never runs the risks which his predecessors took When censors were more complaisant for non-existent and it was possible get within reasonable reach of the fung line, 'This opinion will have to be revised. Consider the experience of Mr, George Steer. In the days of Bennett Burleigh or, to go further back, W. H, Ruscell, the atmosphere War was entirely' masculine. leav~ out of account the Lady of the Lamp, Lady Sarah Wilson and her Ines of that special kind. The war correspondent's kit could be pur chased entirely from Conduit Street "ihe could afford the luxury of paying. for It, It' was Innocent of powder puffs or lipstick, Not so fo-day—the war correspondent may havea golden voice and perhaps blonde hair should facilities permit, That means danger for her colleagues. Mr, Steer has encountered thal danger—obligingly supplied from Parls—and like a good journalist he has refused to run away. Yet he has succumbed and now it seems that {wo great newspapers will have to decide between them whether their present shall be a joint one. Reuter, with a certain amount of professional Jealousy, cruelly suggests that the romance is born of enforced leisure. Does this imply that the two del quants decided "upon their adventure order to make up for the lack of material for their respective despatches? The answer must be a firm nogalive for, as everyone knows. what happens to journalists isnot news. Reuter might have remembered that maxim,
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