Die To Give Us The Daily News
(Rec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 30. Three war correspondents, William Munday, of the “Sydney Morning Herald/’ Stewart Sale, of Reuter's, and A. B. Austin, of the “Daily Herald,” have been killed together near Naples. Their deaths bring war casualties among British war correspondents to eight killed, 12 wounded, four missing and eight war prisoners and internees. British empire and American war correspondents killed number 27 with 33 wounded, seven missing, and 45 war prisoners and internees. Reuter’s say that Messrs Munday, Sale and Austin were with leading units of British armour which had advanced beyond Nocera. They Were matching hidden enemy machine-gun positions firing on a bridge when they were fired on by an unsuspected enemy gun hidden in another position and a shellburst killed them. Lord Burnham, Director of Public Relations at the War Office, paying tribute to the work of the three journalists, said that it again shows that correspondents cannot do jobs without sharing the risks of front-line' soldiers, \ , \
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Northern Advocate, 1 October 1943, Page 3
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