Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-06-28
JAPANESE SPIES ARRESTED.
NEWSPAPER MAN DIES.
Associated Press War Correspondent
 Died From Dysentery.


 Died From Dysentery.
 New Chwang, Monday, June 27.--. Fl. J. Middleton, Associated Press cor respondent with the Russian head quarters near Liao Yang, In Manchu- ria, died Sunday, from entertc dysen- tery.
 Henry John Middleton, the first of the American war corre- spondents to lose his life at the front in the present conflict, was representing the Associated Press at General Kuropatlin's headquarters near Liao Yang. He was taken sick with enteric dysentery less than a week ago and only on Sunday was a dispatch received from him in which he requested that a substitute be sent, to relieve him. He was about 33 years of age, unmarried, and was born in London.
 Mir Middleton was a vivid descrip- tive writer, a linguist, a student, and one of the best posted men on interna- tional affairs. He became connected with the London bureau of the Asso- ciated Press in 1892 and flied almost every position, except superintendent, in that office.
 From the first he developed remark able aptitude and earnestness in his profession, his constant endeavor be ing to thoroughly familiaT1ze himself with whatever subject he undertook. He served as London correspondent of the New York Evening Post for over year, earning high appreciation from that journal. He also reported fOVs hn xyas lant- Britannia races in the waters about Scotland, Ireland and England, securing many advantages over exper- fenced yachting correspondents who covered those races.
 While his career contained many remarkable journalistic feats which brought him praise, perhaps his most brilliant work was in reporting for the Associated Press the Dreyfus trial at Rennes where he made a name for himself in competition with such we'll known men as Julian Ralph and Harry D. Stevens, whose admiration and re- spect he obtained at that time. Though unassisted, he often forward ed four and five columns a day of the interesting pictures and dramatic in- cidents of that great case. Mir Middle MI oASO StLfC CACAlA54NGlJ WO lUG AulGE- ican papers the account of the final raid and capture of Fort Chabral, the name given the house in Paris where. during the Dreyfus excitement, Guersn fortified himself and defied the French authorities.
 When the Associated Press opened an Independent bureau In Paris in the fall of 1899 for the concentration there af oil Hsr Middleton was sent there as assistant to the manager, and when the latter was recalled became Paris correspond ent of the Associated Press, which po- sitdon he filled until the winter of 1902. Then he was brought to New York, where he acted as night cable editor. Upon the opening of the Pacific cable at San Francisco, MT Middleton wsts sent to fnaugurate the cable depart- ment of the Associated Press fin that city.
 With the imminence of the Russo Japanese war he was among those drafted for that service by the Associ- ated Press. He sailed from San Francisco January 15 for Yokohama, thence to Shanghai. With the pro- gross of events he went ito Seoul, but OA 6SCUudbI OI HIS kINOWl6Q&6 OI l6l- guages was finally ordered to join the Russian headquarters in Manchuria, and to do so went to Che Foo, from Che Foo to Pekin. thence to Tien Tsfn, and from the latter point to New Chwang, where he entered the Russian lines and proceeded to Mukden, 1oin- ing Viceroy Alexieff's headquarters Later he proceeded to Liao Yang and there recently reported several engage ments.
 MT Middleton had an attractive per sonal character which won him devot- ed friends wherever he went, but his nature was loyal and generous one Modest and retiring, he was man of indefatigable energy in his work and tireless in l1is conscientious devotion to duty, making of himself one of the most respected and trusted core spondents the Associated Press ever had in its service.
 Mrs Hannah Middleton, his mother, resides in London.