31 DECEMBER 1927, Page 3

The announcement that Lord Burnham has sold the Daily Telegraph

to a combination represented by Sir William Berry, Mr. Gomer Berry and Sir Edward Iliffe, has excited nearly as much interest as such memorable journalistic events as the sale of the Times and the creation of the halfpenny Press. It is understood that the new owners will hold to the general policy of the Daily Telegraph, and they could hardly do better, for under Lord Burnham the paper has been progressive• but reasonable and in every way honourable and of good repute. The . Daily Telegraph was started by Lord Burnham's grandfather in 1855, in a period when, as. luck would have it, there . were about to be many opportnnities. for enterprising Special Correspondents. The Crimean War. was ending, but the Indian Mutiny was yet to .be, -and after that there was the whole suc- cession of Bismarck's . wars which made the Daily Telegraph's correspondents as famous as any in the world.

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