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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3768, 1 March 1913, Page 5

Some extraordinary stories are told of newspaper correspondents who hurried to the Balkans in scores, even in hundreds, on the outbreak of war between Turkey and the Allies. Some of the journalists were experienced campaigners, capable of looking after themselves under all circumstances, but many were city-bred men who did not know enough of war conditions to provide themselves with water--bottles and haversacks.. They could not ride and they expected to find lodgings every night. One of these amateur war correspondents aroused a neighbour at the dead of night with the news that his horse was ill, and when he was asked for details of the trouble he said that despite all persuasions the animal had refused to lie down and go to sleep. Another man rushed to the Turkish headquarters with the complaint that the ground assigned to him for his camp was so hard that he found it hard to drive in his tent pegs. The Turks seem to have treated these troublesome guests with unfailing courtesy. During the retirement from Tchorlu a hungry correspondent came across eight Turkish officers who had secured a large cabbage and were preparing to* break a. long fast The soldiers cut their cabbage in halves and gave one portion to the foreigner, "keening the og.eoj’Kl to divide among themselves. Courtesy could hardly have gone further. Virgil wrote—“ Credo Exro’t”— “Believe cue who has tried ; : t ” Tf ho had only known it he nrght have been advising his readers to “try kartell's Brandy.”* “Better ask twice than, lose your wav once.” say the Danes. So when you ask for MartelPs Brandy and are offered another, make unite sure that Martell’s is unobtainable before yon accept a substitute.*