The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-29
WAR WRITERS
SUCCUMB
One is Shot and One
Dies of an
Illness.

: NEW YORK, June 2o.-A cable mes
sage to the New York World today,
which was unsigned, but which prob
ably was forwarded by the American
Legation at Picking, announced the
shooting of Colonel Edwin Emerson,
Jr., one of the Worlds correspondents
in the East, and conveyed the impress
sion that he had been killed. The cable
stated that it was reported that Emerson
had been shot by the retreating Rus
slams, who mistook him for a spy.
He was an adventurous, daring news
paper man, and in his letter to- the
World were these expressions: Il am
going on Just the same | find | can
get into the Russian lines" He had left
the Japanese army some time before,
being weary of the restrictions put upon
the correspondents by the intelligence
bureau of the Japanese army, and re-
turned to Japan. Thence he had cross
ed to Tien-tsin, China, and pushed up to
Moukden.
SEATTLE, Wash, June 22-The
facts leading up to the shooting of Col
onel Edward Emerson, Jr., war cores
pondent of the New York World in the
Far East, are related by R. L. Dunn,
correspondent in Korea for an Amer
lean weekly magazine, who reached this
city today Mr.. Dunn made this state
ment after being informed that Colonel
Emerson was dead;
Colonel Emerson as a military man
was we'll aware of the positions occu-
pied by Japanese soldiers. Some time
ago he made the announcement that he
intended to go through the Russian lines
and work from that vantage point.
when it came to the ears of the
Japanese military authorities that En-
erson intended to take this step an OH
Ger approached another representative
of Emerson's paper and informed him
that if he took such a step the Govern
ment could scarcely be further respon-
sible for his safety.
Il contemplated a move similar TO
that outlined by Emerson" said Mr..
Dunn, but the Japanese made 1t clear
to me that it would not be wise for me
to proceed.
Emerson held papers which would
lines in safety. In view of these facts
I am inclined to think the real story
of his death has not been learned.
WAR PHOTOGRAPHER A WRECK.
VICTORIA (B. c., June 2I.-Two
Oriental liners, the Empress of China
and the Kanagawa Maru, arrived almost
simultaneously this morning, the jap
anese vessel being the pioneer of the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha fleet since the
reorganization of its foreign business,
suspended for time by reason of the
war Among the Empress passengers
was R. L. Dunn, the war photographer.
To Dunn belongs the distinction of hav-
ing taken the only satisfactory picture
of the naval affair at Chemulpo, inclden-
tai to which was the destruction of the
Korietz and Variag. Without the per-
mission of the Japanese or any others,
Dunn established himself at Chemulpo
before the declaration of hostilities,
thenceforward declining to be bound by
the restrictions incidental to assignment
with the armies, and as a free lance
went wherever he scented trouble, push
ing on even to the Yalu on these prlncl-
pies. Arrest, Imprisonment and difficulties
innumerable were consequently his por-
ton; and now. reduced in weight to
less than ninety-tive pounds and tenn
porarily broken in health, he is home
ward bound in the hope of recuperating
CORRESPONDENT MIDDLETON
DEAD.
NEWCHWANG. Manchuria, June 20.