 There, he was still based in Manchester and covered stories such as the Hawes Junction rail disaster and played a role in the "Daily Mail"'s campaign for improving the nutritional content of bread.Then in 1914 he was sent on his first foreign assignment, travelling to Canada undercover as a migrant worker to find out the life that awaited the hundreds of thousands of people then emigrating to Canada.At the outbreak of war, he was called down to London to represent the "Daily Mail" at the Press Bureau in London.