The Man Who Stopped a War. A Tale of an Australian War Correspondent.
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Title of Story
The Man Who Stopped a War. A Tale of an Australian War Correspondent.
Story Summary
A skirmish between British and Japanese naval forces in the Pacific with a pressman describing the vast battlefleets mines and reciprocal attacks. Future War fiction but a strange one in that it isn't fully explained how the Australian stopped the war. The British and the Japanese were allies between 1902 and 1923 so why a future war story? Evidence suggests it was published in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1901 due to a report in the Tasmanian news that they had received a copy of the magazine (19/07/1901) which featured a Naval Duel of the Future by Patrick Vaux. As the British navy fought the Japanese navy in 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea this is also a predictive story. Mention of a marconigram which also suggests it was written before telegram had become common or perhaps Vaux wished to point to an alternate future.
