His colleagues of the press and all with whom he came in contact here, in Shanghai have been grievously distressed and shocked by the sad accident which resulted in the death of Mr. Philip Pembroke Stephens, the special correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Mr, Stephens was one of the first of special British correspondents to arrive here for the Sino-Japanese hostilities. His alert brain, his attractive personality, his outspoken frankness and his utter fearlessness in the discharge of his duties as in his expression of opinions, endeared him to everyone. Journalism was in his blood for his father was a member of the staff of "The Times" and his recent work in Abyssinia and Spain had given him an experience which showed itself in the crispness of his despatches, as in the workmanlike manner of the activities necessary to their production. His death derived directly from the keenness which marked all his work. It emphasizes the risks which are inseparable from the special correspondent's life if he is bent on being a faithful chronicler of events. Stephens was of the modern school as all journalists are at one time of their lives. He adorned that school and its members as well as those who have had to graduate somewhat earlier will deeply regret his loss and desire to tender their sincere condolences to his family and to the great paper which he so well represented
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