Francis McCullagh

Sir.The obituary notice of Francis McCullagh famous American war correspondent does not do justice to the early source of his journalistic training. The Scottish and North of England papers meptioned were actually the Scottish and Yorkshire editions of the CATHOLIC HERALD.
He left Dublin at the age of 20 to join our Glasgow staff where his knowledge of languages was put to good use in a weekly Continental Letter. The following year he came to Leeds where I was junior reporter and left Leeds to become editor of the "Catholic Messenger". Ceylon.
His next post was editor of the Siam Free Press Bangkok, where he invited me to join hint. He was expelled from Siam because of his attack on the pro-French bias of the judicature. He stayed with me after his first campaign as a war correspondent when he beat the world with his scoop of the debacle of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. He was reticent about his exploits hut never tired of talking of his early days on the CATHOLIC HERALD of Charles Diamond then proprietor and managing editor and also active member of the Irish Parliamentary Party and of D. J. M. Quin our Glasgow editor.
John F. Fielding.
"Catholic Herald", Leeds.