Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1904-05-19
WAR MAY Be IN
A DRAWN GAME
SUCH THE BELIEF OF AN EAST
ERIN TRAVELLER.
TROUBLES FOR JAPANESE
They Will Multiply as the islanders
Progress inward and Depart From
Their Base-RaiIroad a Great Aid
to the Clarifying Time for Cor
respondents.

Washington, May 13.-"The Ameri-
can press" said a well-informed travel
er who has just come from the seat of
the Asiatic war, but whose official po-
sition precludes the use of his name,
may not be overestimating TIE i'm
portance of the Japanese victories, for
these are remarkable, but it is certain
ly overestimating very greatly their
effect in crippling the Russians. The
war has not progressed nearly so far
as to make me regard the out
look as at all one sided The further
westward the Japanese get the more
their condition approximates that of
the Russians in relation to base of
marching overland from the Yalu re-
gion, divides into three columns the
Russians will find it out and can mass
their men, by moving them up or down
the railroad, just where they are want
ed. The Japanese army might aim at
a number of strategic points on this
line, but because marching overland, it
must show it's hand much earlier than
the Russians need to with their rail-
road. Unless this line of communica-
ton can be broken north of the fight
ing zone the Japanese will continue to
fight at great odds.
Many of my friends in the east,
including a German strategist and a
Russian military officer who has gone
over the subject with entire calmness,
think that before many months Tie war
will develop into draw game Japan
will hold certain places from which the
Russians cannot dislodge her, and the
further efforts of the Japanese to push
inland and westward will prove fruit
less. Then it will become a ques-
ton of endurance, and an opportunity
for the play of European diplomacy.
The Russians are not yet crippled,
even on the sea, as most Americans
seem to think, although they have met
with some humiliating losses.
The newspaper correspondents in
the east have had hard time. They
have been bottled up in Toxic and
L,
and treated with oriental politeness in
regular ration. The Japanese have
not wanted them with the army, for
the reasons that appeal to every gov
eminent which is fighting in dead ear
nest; at the same time it did not want
lish and American newspapers, whose
reports would have so much to do in
making public opinion in the countries
where Japan must chiefly look for aid.
The correspondents have at last been
allowed to get near the scene. but I'M
they were not subjected in the Span
ish-American war and other recent
While ! was in Toxic,
however, they were still waiting. One
day they would call at the foreign Of
fee and be informed that efforts were
next day they would be informed that
the general staff had their request
under advisement, but had not yet
been able to make an answer. Final
ly the correspondents were given COM
privileges, which at a high
price they found very unsatisfactory,
and they were able to see little or
/ never knew such dis
gusted set of men as these were, but
just as | was leaving Japan on the 4th
of April the impression prevailed that
they We're at least to enter the promis-
ed land. and from what appears in the
since | have been here l
judge that this is the case"