The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1904-11-04

/ the naval battle at Chcmulpu, Is a pas.
scnger aboard the steamship Manchuria
en- route TO London for a conferenc,
with the Mail people MIR. Mckenzie
is accompanied by Mrs. Mckenzie, who
was a guest at the Moana Hotel last
spring for several weeks. Despite the
report that Mr.. Mckenzie was wounded
and that both his legs were broken, he
goes home practically intact, his injury
having been only a broken wrist.
The vicissitudes which the war cor
the world, has to undergo were ex-
respondent. in sending accurate news &c
perienced by Mr. Mckenzie TO the ex.
IRENE. Watching an engagement SOC
miles from telegraph office, and then
riding up and down steep mountains
lodging brigands. constantly encom-
passed by Japanese and fired upon by
Russian patrols, fording swollen rivers
constantly in tine saddle eating but
little and finally arriving at "A telegraph
Office, only to find that when his dis
patch did reach his paper it took ter
days after LEAVING the telegraph base
are enough to discourage the most op.
timistic war writer.
JAP GREATEST SOLDIER.
Mr.. Mckenzie has the greatest ad.
miration for the Japanese soldiers and
believes that the japanese conscript
infantry soldier has not his equal in
the world for endurance. individual
initiative and strict OBEDIENCE to orders
1t is also the opinion of Mr.. Mcken-
zie that Russia has got her second wind
and that the war is only actually be-
ginning, although he fears that future
battles will result unsatisfactory to
both sides as did the battle of the
Shake.
He believes that Japan has made ar
engagements for carrying on the war
| from the financial standpoint for another
year.
1t is his opinion that the coming year
should the war be then in force. Russia
| will make an advance into Northern
| Korea.
LIAOYANG AND LEIPSIC.
The war correspondents opinion OF
| the great battle of Liaoyang, which he
personally witnessed while with Kuro-
ki's army, is that it was the greatest
of the past century, excepting that of
Leipsic. He estimates the Japanese had
IS2,ooo men and the Russians slightly
more in the battle, both armies stretch
ing over front of nearly 50 miles. His
description of the battle on the slopes
of Mijayama. or "Rice-Cake HILL
shows it to be one of the bloodiest of
the war, the hill being literally soaked
in blood
Mr. Mckenzie is one of the ablest
war correspondents in the Far East, and
as the representative of the great Lon
don Daily Mail has been instrumental
in shaping its policy in the present war,
which is pro- Japanese. He is a con-
sentative writer, and his opinion of the
war situation is most valuable at this
time In an interview accorded an Ad-
vcrtiscr man yesterday at the Moana
Hotel, Mr. Mckenzie gave the follow
ing, leading up from the time the strug-
gle began to the time he left Kuroki's
army to return home:
THE ACT OF WAR.
81 was fortunate to have seen more
than many of war correspondents, hav-
ing gone up into Korea week before
the war started The condition in Ko-
rea was extremely probematical. The
Is 900 settlers and the people there were
practically living over mine The
troops themselves were the danger.
Everything was arranged among the
legations in Seoul for that situation to
arise. The English and American le-
cations had arranged that at the first
sound of trouble British and American
marines were to act together-a sort
of Far Eastern Anglo ALI
ance Then on Monday evening OF
February 8 came the crash-not as we
had expected, but from the landing OF
the Japanese troops at Chemulpo and
the naval fight the next morning at
Chemulpo.
"All OF us, pro or anti Japanese, were
filled with admiration for the Russian
sailors who went out practically facing
death when they were ordered to en-
gage the Japanese warships. The sailors
on the American. English, French, and
Italian war vessels cheered the Russians
as they went, not because they admired
their nations course in Complication,
but they admired the brave men.
Whatever we may have thought OF
the Russian policy in the Far East,
the individual Russian soldier is a brave
man and has won many hearts.
After the battle at Chemulpo push
ed up with the japanese advance forces
through the heart OF Korea and saw the
battle at Ping Yang at the time we ex-
pected the Russian cavalry to sweep
down into the city.
COULD TAKE PORT ARTHUR.
mo one quite realized how UNI
the Russians were. Even the |
Japanese did not realize that within a
week Of the outbreak of the war they |
might have taken Port Arthur, without
serious resistance.
After sllying al Ping Yang for two |
Dr. three weeks ! was expelled IN con
sequence Of the representations Of the
other correspondents now shut up IN
Toxic who declared that either they
must go forward or I be brought back,
vas brouoht back Ia Seoul. but from
here ! joined other or regular CORES
londenls attached 90 the first army as
hey went north and vas fortunate 30
BE- the fret correspondent ~ Join the
'ully formed first army With that army
$40 EVEN engagement from the battle
II lhr falu ilr great marches through
De mountains ~ Nanchufia, and closing
sllh the strengthening of the county
'fuund llanYHnH iu tie carly DAYS ~