OURNALISM UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

Evening Post, Volume XXII, Issue 114, 12 November 1881, Page 4

OURNALISM UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

geldom in the history of journalism haß a newspaper been issued under greater diffioulties and amid less congenial surroundings than the News of the Camp, which was published during the 100 days' siege of Pretoria The editor thus desoribes Ihe condtions under which the feat was accomplished: — "A bungalow for a printing office, with oanvas thrown over its unfinished roof, through whioh the rain freely penetrated, a gentle waterspout running down the compositor's back, as he stood with a bandolier of Martini-Henry cartridges over his shoulder, his white apron for a uniform, composing stick in hand, and his rifle lying suggestively near his printing frame ; the editor's quarters, an army bell-tent and a transport waggon, the space between ingeniously roofed in with a tattered Bail stretched on telegraph poles ; their work, editing a paper by day and on guard up to the knee in mud at night, or sleeping in a pair of leather breeches, long boots, and jack-spurs." The forty numbers of four pages each, foolscap size, have recently appeared in bound form, embellished with fourteen photographio illustrations of the siege.