The Northern News. — 1898-01-15 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

THE PRESS CORRESPONDENTS AND. THE  WAR. At the anneal dinner of the London district of the Journalists Institute, held on. Saturday night, at- the Holborn Restaurant. Mr. Maclean, M.P., said he had remarked with surprise, and with some uneasiness, that the London Press had not. yet laid fairly before the public the facts of the campaign that had been carried on in India. There had been, he would not say suppression, but a good deal of silence about very awkward circumstances that had arisen in that campaign. He saw that the Gen,raf who was going to conduct the campaign in the Soudan had given formal notice that he would not allow any correspondent to accompany him. Success might justify that course. But the Press owed the public a duty in the matter, and ought to make known all that was going on in those campaigrui. Most of the letters he had read with regard to the campaign against the Afridis made no mention of facts well known to anybody who had friends there, and which were talked about freely, and discusaed in a way that canoed one a great deal of anxiety. It had beg it left to the Anglo-Indian Press to tell the truth about what. was going on in that campaign, and to inform the British public that everything had not been as it ought to be. either in the management of the campaign by the Generals, or the conduct of the troops engaged in that war. Those were facto that ought to be known, because the war involved enormous Pxpenditure of public money and terrible waste of human life. It seemed to him that every effort should be made by the proprietors of their great newspapers to bring out the facts as to what had happened, and to let the public know what were the real causes of the blunders made, and of the miserable resulta that had attended this war. (Cheers.)  A former King of Prussia, Frederick Will'am 1., the father of Frederick the Great, had a passion for tall soldiers. The species is not yet extinct. In the Prussian Regiment of the Garde du Corps at Potsdam is a soldier named Conrad, who is 6ft. 64in. in height, and has hitherto passed for the tallest German solder. Now, however, the statement comes from Bavaria that Prussia's military phenomenon is placed in the shade by an infantryman of the Munich Body Regiment, who stands bit. 61in., and is Germany's tallest 'wither. An explosion of dynamite has occurred at the Newton Sewerage Works, near Pc,rthcawl. It was caused by the warming of a cartridge over a fire. Four men were t( rribly injured, and two, it is feared, will not recover. Edward Thomas, fireman, is shockingly injured about the legs and stomach, Daniel Thomas had his legs and arms fractured, Thomas Brookes has both legs broken, and Edward Griffith is suffering from a blow received from some debris while standing fifty yards away. All the windows of buildings in the vicinity of the explosion were shattered. Three men are in attendance on the injured workmen. The two Frenchmen, Emile Mai Hard and Charles Delion, who were extradited recently at Row-it, charged with murdering an old woman at Chaumont, in France, left Dover on Monday in charge of four French police. At Guildford, London. on Monday, Fitsherbert (11. Wit:arils. 44. was remanded charged with misappropr'ating bonds, valued at £2,700. the property of his employers. Messrs. Layton and Webb, solicitors. It yam stated the accused had confessed.