The Journalist on the Battlefield.

Lake County Press, Issue 906, 12 April 1900, Page 2

The Journalist on the Battlefield.

Ynth guns of position that ■•arry six miles, with mobile artillery having a MTigo of more than lliree miles, and with rifles that kill without benefit of clergy at two miles.thewar correspondent (may as well stay at home with hi* mother unless lie has hnrnenod his heart to take his full share of the risks of the battlefield. Indeed, if he has determined >to look narrowly into the turbulent heart of each successive paroxysm of the bloody struggle—and now it in only by doing this that he can mike for himself a genuine and abiding reputation—'he must lay his account with adventuring more risk than falls to the lot of the average soldier. The poreenitajrc of loss among war correspondents has recently been greater th«wi among the actual fighting men. In the Servian campaiign of 187G, for instance. (here were twelve war correspondewtjs who kept the field and remained under fire. Of these throe were killed and four wo-indei. Certainly not more «han thirty correspondents and all told were in the Soudan from est fighting to the final collapse of th.> Nile expedition : but on or under il.< cruel sands lie the corpses of at leawt five of my comrades. O'Donovan. the adventurous pioneer of Merv. perished with Hick*;.. The last hope has faded that endowed as he was with