MARTIN DONOHOE DEAD.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18905, 21 January 1927, Page 11

MARTIN DONOHOE DEAD.

FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT. (B? CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, January 19/ The death is announced of Mr Martin Donohoc, the famous war correspondent. [By tho death of Mr Martin Henry Donohoe, at the ago of 58, British journalism loses one of its most picturesque figures, and certainly one of its most able war correspondents. Born in lieland in 1869, he began his journalistic career on the "Courrier Australian,' Sydney, after being educated at Nationafand Marist Brothers' Schools hi* Australia, and at the Sorbonne and Ecole des Langues, ; Paris. Subsequently he was on the staff of other Australian papers, and traced de Rougemont, the famous traveller and taleteller of the South Seas. Arriving i» London, he entered Fleet street, and became war correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle." He went right through the Boer War, and was with Methuen from the Orange river to Magersfontein. In the fight at Kondesberg Drift he acted as galloper for Hector MaeDonald, and then acebmpanied Lord Roberts on the mafch to Enslin. Present at Paardeburg, he was subsequently taken prisoner, but was released on the fall of Pretoria. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War he was attached to the Japanese Army. Subsequently he travelled extensively throughout the world. The year 1909 found him in the centre of the Young Turk Revolution. Then came the Portuguese Revolution, and he escaped from Lisbon with the first detailed account of the fighting. The Italian War in Tripoli and the Balkan War provided two more chapters in his adventurous career. This was f6llowed by long and useful service throughout the Great War, during which he was an officer in the British Intelligence. He served in Greece. Rumania, and Russia, and was a special service officer in Persia, During the Near Eastern crisis of 1922, He was at Chanuk, and sent some arresting dispatches at a time when Great Britain hovered on the brink of war with Turkey.]