1 1 NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS FORBIDDEN. --j and are accustomed, not only to the privations and the dangers of a military expedition, but to the expedients and resources, a knowledge of which mitigates the sufferings and inconveniences caused by being separated from many of the comforts and some of the necessaries of ordinary life.

Consequently the special war correspondents were not the kind of men to turn back. On the contrary, either by one of the first steamers that passed the cataracts before the expedition and were at Dongola in advance of the main body of the troops,— or by a private " whale-boat " of their own which had been secured beforehand, and being well provisioned and navigated by a competent reis, went gaily, flying the " press " flag, along the course traversed by the great flotilla, — or by successive stages of river and land transport, — the special correspondents were to the front, and though the accounts of the Nile journey were not voluminous, thev were sufficiently indicative of the fact that more than one " chiel " was " takin' notes," either by pen or pencil, for descriptive articles or illustrations which afterwards appeared in newspapers and magazines.

That the newspaper correspondent had more serious difficulties than ever to contend against was asserted without contradiction, and one communication in a leading daily newspaper revealed that his telegrams were doubly countersigned, first at the front and again at headquarters, where they were delayed en route for inspection. A rigid order had been issued that on no account was he to be allowed on board government boats. He must make his way along the banks of the Nile by camel, and as the distances between the various points of interest were immense, and as only one representative of each journal was permitted to pass \\ ady Haifa, he was much puzzled from day to day, or, rather, from week to week, where to place himself. " I had hoped," wrote the correspondent who sent this letter, " myself to have gone on with the Nassif-el-Kheir to Merawi, and although her commandant kindly offered me a passage, Colonel Sir Herbert Stewart at Dongola was obliged to enforce the order which forbids English journalists, whether there is room for them or not, to put loot on