 His criticism of the Government, which was covered by newspapers around the world, is seen by some as one of the reasons for the establishment of a Ministry of Blockade in February 1916.He then reported on the Easter Rising - he was the first English journalist to get independent reports out of Dublin - before leaving the "Daily Mail" after an argument with its news editor, Walter G Fish.He spent the last few months of 1916 as an accredited reporter at the Battle of the Somme, before publishing a memoir of his war experiences, which he called "My Round of the War", at the start of 1918.