Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An haifi Williams a 1883. Shi ne ɗan fari na babban edita a Reuters; duka ɗan'uwansa da kawunsa su ma 'yan jarida ne. Ya maye gurbin Austin Harrison a matsayin wakilin Reuters a Berlin a 1905, yana da shekaru 21. A shekara ta 1908, ya bar kamfanin dillancin labarai na Reuters ya shiga "Daily Mail", yana tattara labarai daga Paris da kuma rufe juyin juya halin Portugal na 1910
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya kasance a cikin Balkans lokacin da yakin duniya na farko ya barke kuma ya zama ɗaya daga cikin masu ba da labari na farko da aka ba da izini a watan Maris 1915. William Beach Thomas ya kasance yana ba da rahoto game da yaƙin don "Daily Mail" a cikin lokacin kafin a ba da izini na hukuma. Lokacin da gwamnatin Biritaniya ta sauƙaƙe adawa da kasancewar 'yan jarida a 1915, bayan da Theodore Roosevelt ya yi gargadin cewa ƙuntataccen rahoto yana shafar ra'ayin jama'a a Amurka, Williams ya shiga cikin rawar.