Scrutator , Sporting Bluff , and The Damsels’ Own Paper all pitched on Khartoum for the same week. It was, perhaps, a desire to outdistance all possible competition that influenced the management of the Daily Intelligencer , one of the most solid and respected organs of Liberal opinion, in its decision to transfer its offices for three or four weeks from Fleet Street to Eastern Turkestan, allowing, of course, a necessary margin of time for the journey there and back. This was, in many respects, the most remarkable of all the press stampedes that were experienced at this time. There was no make-believe about the undertaking; proprietor, manager, editor, subeditors, leader-writers, principal reporters, and so forth, all took part in what was popularly alluded to as the Drang nach Osten ; an intelligent and efficient office-boy was all that was left in the deserted hive of editorial industry.”