WAR CORRESPONDENT DEAD

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14015, 24 June 1913, Page 7

WAR CORRESPONDENT DEAD

SUICIDE IN NEW YORK

LONDON. Juno 17

Mr Angus Hamilton, a well-known English war correspondent, committed suicide in Now \ ork yesteraav.

lie was suffering from depression because of the failure of a lecture tour which ho had arranged, .and in which he gave descriptions of .the recent trouble in the Balkans.

Mr Angus Hamilton was ono of tlio host-known of tlio younger generation of war correspondents, and ho first became noted in connection with lus work in the Russo-Japanese war. At that time he was one of tlio accredited representatives of the Times, and also did the war correspondence for the Times of India. the leading Anglo-Indian journal in western India. In this connection it was generally agreed that this paper had the finest descriptions of the battles and incidents of the groat conflict of any sheet in India. Mr Hamilton was also writing war matter there for ono '■f the big agencies, and some of his stories appeared id a section of the Australian press. He went to the Balkans on behalf of the Central News Agency of London, and while there was pastured outside Kirk Killiseh and kept a prisoner in the fortress for some time.