"COPY" ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 251, 16 February 1917, Page 3 (Supplement)

"COPY" ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

0 t con.'in on the other .s'd,> of the Atlantij are rather fond oi' saying that you must &o t> the L n ! of "Stars and Stripes" 10 liiul the real live j5 rualist. The i laini is not exactly a fair on ■, but t'lcssme in t'ds country willingly pay ovuy ti utc to t!o liniquo achievement; of .Mr. Ehva d Marehfsll, who l; s pulled off eoaic of the biggest "s 00, i>" of t' o war and whrge re ent interview with Mr. lialf'o r on Britain's H>a ] oli y has I en read by mil--1 0.-.s < f peoplj in to. Suits. M.\ Ma shall makes n speciality of interviewing statesmen. It was he who, a short time aj.o, s.;o e ded in givin; an inte view hy .ur. B nar Law which achieved woKd-wide publicity. A lorn journaliot, Mr. Marshal who i. now forty-s v< n, edi cJ and publi lied a newspaper at the a e <f lcirt en i.nl at sixteen w;s news odito.- to the Amen an l'.es< Asso iition. lis jornnalistic achieve m >nts in later year, aie all t e more remarkable on account of the fact that in the SpanishAmeriiai War a bull t bio!:e his an I paralysed 'is legs. H' a t ally vviot■« tie •t ny of the battfe for lii-» I a. er d i; iiu. t..e j.crioJs of tons io :s----ness wiiil.' ly'ng on tie li Id. His lite was d s, aire I of, hut he in do p. wen(ltrful recne.y and reirtd fo - three .'•evs to lecaporate. In i.itier to rogiiin tontrol of his 'c.-,s, In- walked f r I.ours ev.ry day sep.; o:t----|ed by hand Mils and with tie ai! of ! hot . nits \v. ito'.vrs ed <n tie grass-. Mr. Marshall ft s had many t'nil in: adventures in his .search fo. - "copy." lie has i oen in t:uee snipnrecks aiil was on hoard tiie tor edo d C lannel -learner Sussex, being thus able to sen 1 •I first-hand owe nt o t'.io disaster to ! M w Voik.