Impressions of a War Correspondent

by George Lynch

LONDON: GEORGE NEWNES, LIMITED
SOUTHAMPTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.
MCMIII

"TO CARMELA"

CONTENTS

• [The Dance of Death]
• [The Aftermath of War]
• [Elandslaagte]
• [A Glimpse of our Gunners]
• [In the Tents of the Boers]
• [The Fellow that felt Afraid]
• [The Dance of Death in China]
• [Certain Comparisons]
• [The Crucifixion of Christianity in China]
• [Ex Oriente Lux]
• [Night in the City of Unrest]
• [A Street in the City of Unrest]
• [A Glimpse of a Southern City]
• [The Penalty of their Pace in the City of Unrest]
• [The Million-Master in the City of Unrest]
• [The Woman who works in the City of Unrest]
• [The Hou-men of the Dingy City]
• [Tired]
• [The City of Dumb Distances]
• [The Land of the Evening Calm]
• [With Some Toilers of the Sea]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

• [George Lynch]
• [Bringing Wounded Back Into Ladysmith]
• [Advance of the Gordons at Elandslaagte]
• [Advance of the Devons before the Attack at Elandslaagte]
• [George Lynch Captured by the Boers]
• [Boer Shell bursting among the Lancers at Rietfontein]
• [General French and Staff on Black Monday]
• [General White and Staff on Black Monday]
• [Artillery crossing a Drift near Ladysmith]
• [Naval Brigade passing through Ladysmith]
• [General Yule's Column on the Way to Ladysmith]
• [Hospital Train leaving Ladysmith for Pietermaritzburg]
• [Boer Prisoners]
• [Japs entering Pekin]
• [Relief of Pekin]

We are indebted to the courtesy of the Proprietor of The Illustrated London News for permission to reproduce the illustrations facing pages 33, 48, 65, 80, 97, 144, 161, 176, and 193, and to the Proprietor of The Sphere for a similar permission with regard to the illustrations facing pages 224 and 231.

INTRODUCTION