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Difficulties of war correspondent		197
Opposition of Military Officials		198
The Duke of Wellington and war correspondents		198
W. H. Russell and the Crimean War		200
Opposition of War Office		201
Opposition of governments		201
Lord Wolseley and the correspondents		202
W. H. Sherman and war correspondents		202
W. H. Russell in the Civil War		203
Reasons for opposition of authority to war correspondents		204
Climax of opposition in 1914		204
Vacillating regulations applied to correspondents		205
Reasons for dislike of correspondents by War Office		205
Reasons for dislike felt by army		206
Drain on resources of the press		207
Strictures on war correspondent		208
His speedy disappearance again foretold		211
Side of the war correspondent		211
Difficulties he meets		211
Lack of appreciation of his work		212
His own pride in his achievements		214
Rebels at needless entanglements		217
But appreciates opportunities		217
Correspondent often victim of conditions		217
External difficulties		218
Responsibility of the public		218
War correspondent faces an impasse		219
Changing direction of correspondence		220
Charges brought against war correspondence		221
Charge that enemy profits by news sent		221
Examination of charges		221
Denial of them by war correspondents		221
Personal equation of correspondent		222
Golden age of war correspondence		223
Advantage of social neglect of war correspondent		224
Disadvantage of his social importance		225
Efforts to improve correspondence		226
War correspondence of recent war		227
Development of war correspondence		227
Generalizations concerning it impossible		228
Difference in war correspondents		228
Different types of wars		228
Different types of war correspondents		228
Relation of these questions to the historian		229
New directions of war correspondence		229