Many appreciative remarks have been made about Sir Percival Phil-Nips, the distinguished war correspondent, whose death in London was! Feported "last week. Sir Percival was the journalist's ideal—a brilliant} and accurate reporter of events, and as such his name will be long remembered in Anglo-American jour-rialism. As a war correspondent reported every war during his lite, starting in hig teens, and although he was the most pacific of men in his Dellets these unfortunate but apparently inevitable of incidents in the history of the world always found him involved. But in the development of journalism he also played a rear port. He made claim to being the first man to use a typewriter in Fleet Street, As a young, energetic ud progressive reporter from America making his frst plunge in the "Street of Ink" he brought over: from America a. typewriter which was then a familiar article of use in. American newspaper offices but had of apparently reached London. In. fact, even at the end of the Great War many newspaper offices were still accepting hand written script and still do to this very day. The typewriter was not exactly the miniature size used to-day by travelling cor~ respondents, but it created a sonsation in the old "Daily Express" for he used to relate that it made such noise and so disconcerted the editorial brains working with pen and pencil that they relegated him to a small room (o prevent the annoyance. Judging by the Hollywood reprodueons of newspaper atmosphere which five the idea of a hammer factory Working overfine he lazed a new
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.