The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-24
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the war. slipped away from Toxic
and went to Nagasaki where 1 took
deck passage on a little steamer which
| took me as far as Fusan. Then 1 got
into a little steamer that was destined
for Chemulpo. Then 1 had to take a
| sampan, travelling thus for eight days,
| experiencing considerable wintry wea-
| Their on the voyage. 1 reached Che
| mulpo by sampan just after the naval
battle there and took pictures of the
| wrecks. I then went to Seoul and from
there to Ping Yang and accompanied
the first division to Sunar. From there
| was ordered back to Seoul by the
grand headquarters at Toxic, and re-
manned in Korea's capital until l. with
| thirteen others, was given permission
| to go to the front. Up to the time I
| left Japan on my way home we were
the only ones who were seeing any
| thing of the war.
"On May 1, saw the battle at the
textbook fight, one carried out by rule
of thumb. The movements of the Jap
anese armies We're perfectly executed,
agreeing with every plan mapped out
by the strategists. All branches CO.
operated to make it a perfect fight from
the Japanese side. The pontoon trains
came up just at the right time, the ar
tillery opened up at the psychological
moment on the Russians across the
river and the battle ragged according to
the settled ethics of war.
The correspondents, however, We're
not permitted to get into places where
they could observe more closely the
methods in vogue. Under the super
vision of the officer detailed to look
after US, we went out upon the walls
of Wiju and from there with our glass
es saw the Japanese shell the Russian
position. The Second division swept
the Russians back, but there were not
more than 1000 Russians on the firing
line. They were without their artil-
lery which had been withdrawn from
its original position the night before.
Against this firing line were 10000
Japanese. The Russians were out
f1anked to boot, because the extreme
right end of the Japanese force eX-
| tended far beyond their own and over
! Tapped it, and they We're turned back
| by the extreme of length of the Japa-
nese column. The Russians. too, were
in process of retreat a the time.
But the advance of the Japanese
soldiery is most praiseworthy. 1t was
simply an irresistible advance, and was
perfect. 1t was a steady. stern advance
and the Japanese died willingly for
their country. 1t is a glorious thing,
to them, to be permitted to exhibit
their patriotism by dying. In this re
spect they are similar to the Dervish,
who dies willingly from fanatica1 love
for Allah. The charge of the Japa-
nese at the Yalu is worthy of remem-
, brance in the history of battles.
eve were permitted to see this much
at long range, but instead of being al
lowed to go on with the victorious coll
umn we had to go back to our camp
/ behind a range of hills, and saw moth
/ ing more. When the army crossed the
Yalu we did likewise on May ?. We
went to Antung and to Feng Wang
Cheng where the japanese army met
its first repulse. 1 understand today,
that the Russians are still holding
them hack.
The Japanese adopted the German
method in maneuvering by taking ev-
cry precaution against attack. The
Russians seem to take no precautions
whatever, but seemingly look to mir
acle to pull them away from disaster,
or to give them victory
II saw many Russians prisoners
They are generally pretty big men and
seem to be brave and as perfect SOL
diers as they can be under the Rus
sian system.
The strategy of the japanese is Won
derful-is perfect. Nobody knows any
thing of their plans But the manage
ment of Russian operations seems
nothing short of criminal. The Japa-
nese commissariat is a wonderful or
ganization. and their hospital service
of the best.
How did I get news from the front
to the cable offices? Well. it WASH
very well done. Of course. everything
we sent out was censored at once. We
had established a relay line of Korean
runners to Ping Yang. The news sent
of the Yalu fight was sent by runners
TO Ping Yang where the field telegraph
corps of the Japanese army put it on
the wires to Seoul. It was censored
and censored and finally reached To-
kio by wire, where it was again sub
jected to censorship. Every censor
who could take a whack at it did so.
There wasn't much left of it by the
time it reached my papers.
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