Lionel James
Lionel James, who had joined The Times in 1899 and had reported for the paper on the Boer War. In 1904 he was chosen by Charles Bell, then editor of the paper, to go to the Far East as a war correspondent.
On 14/15 March 1904, Lionel James, the senior war correspondent of the Times, used wireless to report news from the Russo-Japanese War.