BLIND HERO'S PAPER.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 March 1917, Page 2

BLIND HERO'S PAPER.

INVALIDED ANZAC WORKS FOP. HIS COMRADES. Londori, Jan. 22. The most wonderfully produced paper in the world is published at a comfortable lounge for soldiers in Southamptonrow. It was started by two young heroes, One, the editor, is blind'. The other, the assistant editor, is minus a leg. Tho editor sits down at a typewriting machine and tap 9 out editorial articles and raiey sketches of life as he has seen it.

Tho title of the paper is the "Chronicles of the N.Z.E.F." (New Zealand Expeditionary Force). The editor is Trooper Clutlia Mackenzie, son of Sir Thomas Mackenzie, K.C.M.G., High Commissioner for New Zealand, and chairman of the New Zealand War Contingent Association. Trooper Clutha Mackenzie was blinded in the war. Instead of grieving and doing nothing he smiled, learned typing, began work with a wounded comrade, planned' out the paper, and made a success of it.

"Two of us started it," he said to a Daily Express representative on Saturday. "Neither af us knew anything about journalism. We were a pretty couple. A,t the beginning we had no secretary to help us, but we gofc on jolly well.

"I do the 'making up' on the page; of the previous number. I •can feel," ha said with a smile.

Practically all the contributions are voluntary, and are trom officers and men in the New Zealand forces.

.The ,'Chronicles'' is liked and looked fqr. It goes to the camps and hospitals. where our New Zealanders are, and to the front, and over to New Zealand itself. •'

• One of our officers, Lieutenant J. H. Gilmour, drew the cartoon on the front page, and he has done some real Bairnsfathery pictures for our inside paces"