PRICE, Julius Mendes, English traveler: b. London, England. He was educated in Brus sels and at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris; entered journalism and was a special artist correspondent of the Illustrated London News. In 1884-85 he served in the army with the Bechuanaland campaign in South Africa when he enlisted, for journalistic purposes, as a trooper, in Methuen's Horse, serving with the 'regiment until its disbandment. He went with the expedition to open up the Nordenskiold route to the interior of Siberia via the Kara Sea, the Arctic Coast of Siberia and up the Yenesei River. He became so interested in the country that he afterward traveled alone through Siberia, Mongolia, and the Gobi Desert via northern China, to Peking (1890-91). Four years later he visited the western Australian goldfields. He was with the Greek army in the Gra-co-Turkish War in 1897, was engaged in an expedition in the Northwest Territory, Canada, and down the Yukon River to the Klondike in 1898 and was in China in 1900-01.
He served as special artist for the Illustrated London News and war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph during the Russo-Japanese War (1904-05). In the European War he was with the French army at first and later with the Italian Headquarters Staff, where he was official war correspondent to the Italian govern ment in 1917. He has published 'From the Arctic Ocean to the Yellow Sea' (1892) ; 'The Land of Gold' (1896) ; 'From Euston to Klon dike' (1898) ; 'Dame Fashion' (1913) ; 'My Bohemian Days in Paris' (1913) ; 'My Bohe mian Days in London' (1914) ; 'Six Months on the Italian Front' (1917). He has alsn written many magazine and newspaper articles illustrated with his own sketches and drawings.