I sent for the Correspondent, who confessed to having made the alterations, not apparently realizing that he had done anything at all reprehensible, but he promised that he would never do such a thing again.

This promise was not kept; telegrams appeared in his paper which I had not seen before despatch, and which were most misleading to the British public.

Moreover, his letters, over which I could have no control, and which I heard of for the first time when the copies of his paper arrived in Kuram, were most subversive of the truth.

It was on the receipt of these letters that I felt it to be my duty to send the too imaginative author to the rear.
No one could be more anxious than I was to have all details of the campaign made public.

I considered it due to the people of Great Britain that the press Correspondents should have every opportunity for giving the fullest and most faithful accounts of what might happen while the army was in the field, and I took special pains from the first to treat the Correspondents with confidence, and give them such information as it was in my power to afford.