OUR WAR CORRESPONDENT.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 April 1918, Page 7

OUR WAR CORRESPONDENT.

That perennial Journalistic Joke, our War Correspondent, "Somewhere in France," is thus referred to by a contemporary:

Again occasion arises for entering a strong protest -against the inefficiency of New Zealand's alleged war correspondent on the Western front. During past weeks many relatives of the men at the front have been wondering why casualty lists continued to come through whilst there was no record in the cable news of our boys taking part in any fighting. And this wonder has been changed into anxiety during the past week. What were the New Zealanders doing—are they in the big battle? Vast silence from New Zealand's own expensive war correspondent on the spot. It has remained for Keith Murdoch, the Sydneysidor who has even outrivalled Captain B'ean in the interest of his narratives, to tell us in to-day's cable news what our boys have been doing under strenuous winter conditions; And from Wellington comes word that the Minister of Defence has received a cable message stating that the New Zealand division was out of the fiirng line, "engaged in training" until the latter part of the month. Keith Murdoch does finer justice to our boys than the Minister's cngagedrh advice. Captain Bean has been relieved by Lieut. Cutlack. Cannot Captain Boss be relieved by Lieut. Sendnews?