MR. MARTIN DONOHOE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2233, 20 August 1914, Page 6

MR. MARTIN DONOHOE

man of many campaigns. Mr. Martiii Doriohoe, tli© \ "Daily Glirbhiole's" war - correspondent, ;from whom a .4ood > dear is heard, is 0n1y 1 45 years of age,.' but ho lias had. a long and interesting career. •He was born in Galway (Ireland) oh. :; November 10, 1869, and began 'his 'journalistic career in the "Courier Australian" at, Sydney in 1892. jSubsequently'ho took *. a prominent pars in 'exposing the no 5 torious impostor De; Rougemont/ His ,first experience as a'war correspondent : was in the Boer war''when he represented tho . London "Daily Chronicle." IJ6 acted .as an assistant, galloper: to Hector. Macdonald in tlio.fight'at.Koodoesberg Drift and witnessed many of '' ilie-most important. .actions of >the war: ; Taken prisoner by Mr. Donblioe was released onV tho; fall of Pretoria. In tho Russo-Japanese war he was attached ' to. 'the first". Japanese Army and'accpmpanied Kur'oki through Korea and/Manchuria, being-present at. numerous battles: i After, the' war Mr; Donohoo. travelled extensively; invarious parts of tho world, arid in_ 1909 ■witnessed tho. taking of Constantinople by: tlio Young Turks. ;' He escaped'from. Lisbon': with the first definite.account ■ of the fighting in tlie Portuguese Revolution of 1910.' Subsequently he followed the Italian-Turkish' war in Tripoli and the Balkan war. j