NOTED JOURNALIST ILL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 103, 4 May 1931, Page 7

NOTED JOURNALIST ILL.

MR. ASHMEAD-BARTLETT. (Received 12.30 p.m.) LISBON, May 3. The noted journalist and war correspondent, Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett, is bravely ill from congestion of the lungs.

Mr. Ashmead-Bartlett was a eon of Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, and married an Argentine lady in 1919. He accompanied the Turks in the Graeco-Turkisli War of 1898 and was taken prisoner by the Greeks. He was special war correspondent with the Japanese Army _in the RuesoJapaneoe War of 1904; in the * r ench campaign in Morocco in 1907; with the SpSs against the Riffs in 1909; with the Italians in Tripoli in 1911; and in the first and second Balkan wars, 1912 and 1913, first with the Turks, and later the Serbs. He represented the London Press at the Dardanelles in 1915, and subsequently at Marshal Joffre's headquarters in 1916. He later wrote numerous books on his experiences. In 1910 he twice contested seats for Parliament, but it was not until 1924 that he was elected—as Conservative member for North Hammersmith.