CHAPTER XI.
War Correspondents The attitude of the newspaper reader toward the war correspondent who tries to supply him with war news has always puzzled me.
One might be pardoned for suggesting that their interests are the same.

If the correspondent is successful, the better service he renders the reader.

The more he is permitted to see at the front, the more news he is allowed to cable home, the better satisfied should be the man who follows the war through the "extras." But what happens is the reverse of that.

Never is the "constant reader" so delighted as when the war correspondent gets the worst of it.

It is the one sure laugh.