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CONTENTS
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Function of special correspondence 181
The correspondent in time of peace 181
At foreign capitals 181
J. G. Bennett on qualifications of correspondents 182
The special correspondent on himself 182
Lord Salisbury on the special correspondent 183
Correspondents of the London Times 183
Question of authoritativeness of correspondence 183
Sources of news 184
Multiplicity of sources a possible handicap 184
Disadvantages under which the correspondent works 184
Expansion of skeleton messages 185
False impressions created by correspondents 185
Labouchere and foreign correspondents 186
International controversies from foreign correspondence 186
The expelled correspondent 186
Responsibilities and opportunities of foreign correspondents 186
Prone to magnify their office 187
Difficulties of the special correspondent 187
Bismarck and the Pall Mall Gazette 187
Royalty as special correspondent 188
Attitude of governments towards the foreign correspondent 188
The special correspondent in South Africa 188
A. H. Layard and the Constantinople correspondents 189
"Letters from Europe" 190
"Letters from the trenches" 190
"Truth tours" 191
Limitations of special correspondence 191
Restrictions through official relations 191
Censorship and special correspondence 192
Special correspondence "for home consumption" 192
The free lance correspondent 193
"Inspired" special correspondence 193
Insidious temptations of work 194
George Borrow on foreign correspondents 194
General high type of special correspondents 194
Chapter IX
The War Correspondent
Early war correspondence 195
Development during the Thirty Years' War 195
Functions of early war correspondents 196
Predictions of his disappearance 196