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appointed, it was ascertained that they favoured the policy of the proprietors, and that they would be likely to work vigorously along the desired lines; if they departed from these lines they would be dismissed from their post and other editors appointed who would write what was wanted. A clever young journalist taken out to Capetown or Johannesburg will naturally get his views and his information moulded by experienced and able men of business on the spot, who provide him with 'exclusive information' which he cannot check, and introduce him to men who can tell him just what 'he ought to know.' That the blood, the money, and the honour of Great Britain should be at the mercy of talented young journalists floundering about on the surface of a turbid sea of politics and finance in a country quite strange to them, is indeed a terrible reflection.

The control of the London press by the Rhodesians is thus perfectly intelligible. It is right to add that for purposes of popular education they were particularly favoured by the efforts of the Daily Mail, which enlarged the bounds of London journalism in the provinces, spreading its yellow light in regions hitherto unapproached. Although the proprietors of the Daily Mail have been share-