THE PRESS IN TRIPOLI.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 300, 9 December 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE PRESS IN TRIPOLI.

Bolts from the blue, such as th" Italian invasion of leipon, mav no liar<l on war correspondents. As a rule war lollows on a series oi negotiations, anti, while the correspondent rs always ready to feme for tile front at a monii'iii s nonce, De generally n.is time to get to Hie se.-iie bet ore toe guns open lire. But the X'ortugucse revolution uisr. year was witnessed oy only one r.cgusn spei-iid correspondent, amt lie scored a hrst-class "scoop.” tn tim ease of I’ri- | poll tlie blow came wnn almost equal suddenness, and most oi the newspapers had to depend on men who happened to be close to tile seine oi war. ’1 ho Daily News had tiie luck to employ au Italian correspondent who happened, to be m Tripoli, and received a column lit good matter days Del.we the otnev papers got anything but meagre telngrams. But newspaper work is so well urgeni.-ed and corresiiondents are accustomed to move so quickly that by the time the Italian sinus opened tire on 1 r.poii quite a nouEer of I'rasmen Were lucre to watch the proceedings. line of these was Air liennet Burleigh, v. h;>, says the London comepondviit of the Sydney Daily iefigrapii, lias lost count or ms campaigns. Many stories are told of his cleverness in getting news tiir..>iigii to i’leet .street in rhe iave of diiiieultu s. One of these c..:ic>-rns tiie cloning iltiys of the South .’ilrican war. He was m i’recorm when ! i:e Heard that tne peace terms had been 1 agro-d upon. Tim- strictest cr-ns-irsliip I war. exercised, ior t::c authorities had good re.i::.->ns tor not making an an ! r.oancesm ,nt for some days. Air Bur- ' li -.gii l-:new it would be idle to a.ttmnpb I any message to Hie Daily 'Telegraph, so I he' wrote eat an apparently inn-K-en: ! cabl'-gram to his wile, ‘imply telling : her t'.iat h«' would be leaving for Eng- ! iaiid immediately. The censor passe:! ■ it, i.nd .Mr« Burleigh at i.r.ce took it. ! to the e-litei of tin- Dady I’elegraph s Next day that pais-r announced ti’.o 1 smiling ct th" r->terms und the end ' (iftlie*’.. :;r. Jlr Burh. iga c.o.iid med all i iris cic’i err.ess to circumvent the i ’an cells.>rs. wl.e.-c syspai is \ Dy one c.irr.spondi-ni as 1 " i Iralian Gauruw.-iir are rivals oi tfio ■ Jo-iinese g.miiils as suppressors o! : news. Mobilisation went on in Italian i parts ior ten days Witk-I’.it th® people i J.’i ".-.in g ■• i .y. 111. i,. aiiout it, tie : un-nt exercising a strict censorship over I all Italian iruirnids. After th® hom- ! bardim ut a' wateh was kept on .-very ; ven-! ia Italian r>s>rts lest they be used tr> convi v correspondents to Tripdi ' Wh"ii tiie trm'i'S arrives!, instruct i.am j were rocx-ivc-d (hat all message.'?, Brestn ■ anil otherwise, must be sent to Romo ! ior cxamiimti-'n. and censors were on ! their wav with orders not- to aiiow tho : lOigh’r’A critic;‘--ii oi tiie admint—-