The San Francisco call., 1904-09-13

They made us wear a flaming s-til
band around cur sleeves and whenever
Russian officer found himself with a
rev unoccupied moments on hand he
hunted up war correspondent and
whichever way the scribe was travel
/ ing, ordered him to go the other way
ana we were all sore and they knew it.
Ihey didn't want us around and they
dldnt want us to leave mad They
tired TO make us feel better by making
promises they had no intention of
Keeping and when all the .joilying'
falIed and we expressed our determin-
alton to go home, they arranged a line
of transportation for us which in it
self would have kept me in Manchuria
for the rest of my days
could go home they said but
must travel by way Of ST Petersburg
we would have to pay our own way
and could have only third-class accom-
n1odaticns and find our own sustenance
A scjourn in the mines of Siberia
would be preferable to journeying over
the Russian railroad under those con-
ditions. so at Mukden, with the aid of
some Chinese friends, / managed to
lose myself and after a little rough
travelling reached neutral Chinese ter
ritory and made my way to Peking."
SEES A LITTLE FIGHTING.
for five months. He was attached to
the division of General Keller, who was
killed some weeks ago, and much of
the time was stationed at Liaoyang
He saw some of the fighting. but the
lines were so extended that if he had
not known what was going on he
would hardly have associated what he
saw with serious warfare.
General Keller, says Millard, was one
of the few officers upon whom Kuro-
patkin could rely. For Kuropatkin the
correspondent has great admiration He
said:
kuropatkin has been laboring under great
difhcultes ever since he went out there in
March. When he first went out to Manchuria
he advised that Port Arthur be heavily gar
risoned and left TO make its own defense. and
that Manchuria be abandoned far north as
Mukden. The Russian forces were badly scat
tered at that time. Kuropatkin's advice was
disregarded and he was ordered to contest the
territory He succeeded in concentrating his
army. but has been greatly handicapped be-
cause Of the superior numbers of the Japanese
Niceroy Alexieff is to blame for the condition
of affairs I'M Manchurin He and Kuropatkin
are not working in harmony and before left
Manchuria they had reached the point where
they declined TO exchange communications.
Millard IS veteran as a war cor
respondent having served through
the Turko- -Grecian, Spanish-Americang
and Boer wars, the insurrection in the
Philippines and the Boxer troubles in
IChina. .-
L. c. Bellows, the American Con-
sui General at Yokohama, was also a
passenger .on the Korea. He is going
to Washington. D. c.. on a sixty days'
leave of absence. The war situation
he declines to discuss. When the war
is over. he saws. American merchants
will have a great opportunity to es
tablish commercial relations on n
large scale with Japan. If they i'm
prove the opportunity they will build
up a large and permanent trade with
the island kingdom, but if the chance
is once more allowed to pass the Ian
anese market will be difficult to break
into.
PAY WAR TAX GLADLY.
Speaking of the attitude of the Jan
anese people toward the war, ConsuI
Bellows declares that he never saw
anything like the fervor with which
the populace paid the war tax They
only seem sorry, he says, that the Gov
ernment does not want more, and
where the payment of the tax involves
the greatest self-sacrifice there the re-
gret is most pronounced.
Takichi Mitsukuri, professor of
zoology and dean of the science COL
lege of the Imperial University at To-
kio., arrived. on the Korea, accom-
panied by a formidable suite He is