FRONT LINE RISKS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1943, Page 4

FRONT LINE RISKS

TAKEN BY CORRESPONDENTS THREE KILLED TOGETHER NEAR NAPLES BRITISH & AMERICAN LOSSES TO DATE (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.15 a.m.) LONDON, September 30. Three war correspondents —William Munday, of the “Sydney Morning Herald.” Stewart Sale, of Reuter's and A. B. Austin, of the “Daily Herald”—have been killed together near Naples. Their deaths bring war casualties among British war correspondents to eight killed/ 12 wounded, four missing and eight prisoners of war or internees. Empire and American correspondents killed number 27. with 33 wounded, seven missing and 45 prisoners of war or internees. Reuter’s says Munday, Sale and Austin were with leading units of British armoured forces which had advanced beyond Nocera. They were watching hidden enemy machine-gun positions firing on a bridge when they were fired on by an unsuspected enemy gun hidden in another position. A shell burst I killed them. Lord Burnham, Director of Public Relations at the War Office, paying a tribute to the work of the three journalists, said: “It again shows that correspondents cannot do their jobs without sharing the risks of front line soldiers.”