The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-07-08
CORRESPONDENT COMES
BACK WITH HEAD SHORN
Wierd Tale Of an Attempt to Get News By
Joining the Chinese Bandits So Why
Scheme Was Given Up.
tFrom Wednesdays Advertlser)

(From Wednesdays Advertiser)
One of the strangest stories of a cor
respondents experiences in the present
Japanese war was brought to
Honolulu yesterday on the transport
Thomas by Frederick w. Unger, the
former war correspondent in the Boer
war, who has just returned from an
ineffective effort to get either to the
Japanese or Russian battle front. I'm
ger arrived in the city yesterday from
Nagasaki with partially bald head,
only side sections and the back OF his
hirsute adornment remaining. When
he passed through Honolulu few
months ago on the transport Buford
he had full head Of hair. neatly
parted in the middle. And thereby
hangs a tale.
Unger was somewhat backward a
bout satisfying inquiries as to the loss
of his hair. At distance his skull
looked as If the hair had departed by
the course Father Time pursues, but
closer examination shows that the
shears and razor had something to
do with it.
The war correspondent finally gave
his version of the bald head, as fol-
lows:
st went to Newchwang after vain
effects to get beyond Seoul. and while
there decided to make a browning eff
fort to reach q point where I could
observe things. I hit upon the plan
of Joining the Hung Hutzus, or Red
Haired Bandits who have been a ter
ror along the Russian lines. They are
Io< 80 ~ bov III al
arranging with a bandit-chief. I be-
gan preparations for making myself
one of them.
II had my head shaved as you see
1t, and had my dress ready. But at
this time my friend Ethel, the war
correspondent, was shot, and that de-
terred me. In fact it was like pouring
cold water down my back and I gave
up the proposition, left Newchwang
and went back to Shanghai. and then
to NagasaN, where Joined the trans
port"
Mr. Unger did not say why he was
keeping his head bereft of hair, but
as he intends to enter the lecture field
in the fall, the shaved head will be
one of the attractions he has to offer.
It Is his intention to lecture on the
situation in the Far East, and also
to publish book on the different
phases of the yellow PERIL" He says
he will also take part in the political
campaign in Pennsylvania and will tell
something on the rostrum Of the adj
ministration's policy in the Far East.
II don: care just now to express an
opinion as to what believe will be
the result of the war;" continued Mr..
Unger. However I went out to the
Far East pro-Russian, and haven't had
my ideas much shaken as yet.
II went to Japan and then to the
Philippines on the way out. From
Nagasaki I went to Chemulpo and then
to Seoul. 1 got tired waiting there, as
many other correspondents did, and
went to Toxic and went through the
routine of making application for a
pass to go to the front. 1 got tired
of waiting for that and went to Shang-
hal and then to Chefoo. Finally 1 went
to Newchwang.
"Etzel was killed while I was there.
He and another correspondent
named Brindle went out in a junk and
when seen by Russians attempted to
get away. They We're probably taken
for pirates and Ethel was unfortun-
ately killed"