WAR CORRESPONDENT'S 'SCORE.'
War correspondent Bennett Burleigh, who died the other day, scored while representing the London 'Daily Telegraph' in South Africa. A strict censorship was in force when Burleigh sent a couple of seemingly innocent messages. One was to his paper, "Whitsuntide greetings" ; the other to a relative, "Coming home. Tell Lawson" (son of the chief proprietor of the 'Daily Telegraph'). The editorial staff got its collective brain to work, turned up the "gospel" for Whit Sunday and read. "Peace I leave with you.; >My peace I give unto you." On that and the private message it was decided to chance it, with the result that the 'Telegraph' was the first to announce that terms~ of, peace had been arrived at.
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Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 2, 14 July 1914, Page 6
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122WAR CORRESPONDENT'S 'SCORE.' Clutha Leader, Volume XLI, Issue 2, 14 July 1914, Page 6
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