Lord Wolseley on Newspaper Correspondents.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5028, 23 February 1885, Page 2

Lord Wolseley on Newspaper Correspondents.

■■ The followingextractsfrom tbe Soldier'tV Pocket Book, of which Lord iithe author, will 4 not; be without iniitt«t:v —" It _Ja much better that the i:'eiooia,j'u k* 1 movements should not; be kDOWn to^e array generally; if they are^Keyjyilpfco. canvassed by a host of newspaper ■fßocw«--pondeais, and in the end the enemy will learii that his doiDgs are known, which Fill make: him watchful; whereas it is a ■great:matter to lull him into the pleMiog notion, that we are a stupid people, without fitjpr energy enonghto find put p;hiit he' is doing or .intending;' to do; v and that we have no spies inhis camp. . . . . As a rule in all oiTilised nations, what is belie Ted by the' army will very soon bo credited by the enemy-—having reached'!:■ him by means ppspies^ medium of thoseimwiy invented citrsegto armies'"! mean newspapercorrespondents. ;,,;' ■•■;' •'. .Travelling gentlemen, news, paper y cowe.sponderits, : md& all that race of: 'drones' are' an r ? eocumbranc© to an army; they eit, the ration* of fighting men, and do no work at til. Their numbers^ be; resiiejdyp v much as possible. r''.;i^'-ryffikhlßsfc''■:.<, lish general •of.■ the■ p^senj^ ::dxf < :j| 'hiffi>: ;inost;; unfortunate;: : ; ; i?oßiti!)j|^::vb|i^ rpnnded by :ney : spap^r'-;-pqrres"^ii^jß|i^.''--i who, panderingVtoithe '■public'-pnar/for_"! 'news,' render concealnient (of nlterioc strategical designs) mpst'4iifeciu]V^^<«r'/'"--ever, 1 the post^nd:telej^^;§ili;*lWif• ' be in the General's handfj so he can ftjr • an embargo on the mails whenever he wishes it,;without its beingiknowii ibiflsi long time; or he can, by spreading falls^ news among jtb«f ;«entlemenr.'d^tlif press,'.'^ use them as af medium by which to 's9cem ah DDemy;": a fter considering;■ -the r.itgli\^ ments advanced ;by, ;iiE!nglaiidri!^stgen*. \;;:; ral f , it ..■ would not be yere surpriwui ''to •■■'!'; learn that the fall of ,Znarlo^ f i^ >assassination of General Gordon weir* - .fable S ..,; : -■■v-v ;'■:,■;:/^.W: : ; -:^; K;•..,,■, -^,