The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-27
SURGEON
SEAMAN
Treated the ReisitaI ani's
Bullet Hit
Captain.

dealings with the Chinese and Japan
ese"
/ This is the startling statement made
i by Major L. L. Seaman, formerly medi-
cal officer of the United States army,
and recently on detached service in
Japan and the Far East, observing
| conditions from a medical standpoint
in the Russian and japanese armies.
A pro-Russian when he went to the
Far East, Major Seaman returns to the
United States thoroughly pro-Japanese.
1t was the good fortune of Major
Seaman to have been. in attendance on
Ii Hung Chang when the great states
man died. 1t was his good fortune also
] to have been in the Philippines during
the Spanish-American war and it was
| his report on the poor medical and
sanitary condition of the American
| soldier in the field which aroused much
attention on the mainland and almost
/ brought him before a court martial
| board.
He was afterwards surgeon with
! the American troops on, the march to
| Picking, and all in all, with his latest
| experiences in Manchuria, he has had
some of the most interesting expert
ences which has befallen an American
in recent years.
Surgeon Seaman who is a through
passenger on the Mongolia, was the
guest of his old friend. Mr.. Charles
Hall of Hackfeld & Co., and last night
was the guest at dinner of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Lucas.
It was the result of the attitude of
the War Department on his report on
the sanitary conditions surrounding
the American soldiers in the Philip
pines that impelled Surgeon Seaman to
go to the Far East to observe condi-
! lions in the Japanese and Russian
armies, to strengthen his conclusion
that the American army was rot so
we'll served in the field as other armies.
Surgeon Seaman passed through
Honolulu on the transport Sheridan on
June this year, it being stated in the
Advertiser of that date that he was on
his way to Manchuria to observe
medical conditions among the Russian
troops.
Il endeavored to get to the front
with the japanese troops" said Sur
geon Seaman last night, 'but failed.
There were all sorts of delays, and L
cut loose from Toxic and went over to
China. I went north and landed in
Newchwang, and was there when the
Russian evacuation took place. The
Chinese looted that place thoroughly
twenty minutes after the Russians
We're out. The doors, windows, and
even the hot stove in the police station
disappeared in the twinkling of an eye.
I was at the American consulate when
General Fukushilna arrived. He
stormed somewhat when he found me
there, although I had known him dur
ing the Boxer trouble, but he permitted
me TO stay.
There was no Associated Press man
at Newchwang then, and on receipt of
a wire. from Picking, I sent. several
messages out. There was. no press CEN
sor and I was not suspected of being
the a. p. man for some time. 1t fell
to my lot to be able to put on the wires
two hours. after the battle of Haicheng
a full account of the fight. After that.
however, it was known that was the
press correspondent, and I didn't send
any more messages.
while at NeWchwang I made the
acquaintance OF the chief of the Hun
Hutzes, or Red Haired Bandits as they
are generally known. His name was
Chun Sen Lin, and he was a king among
men. His methods of levying tribute
and taxing the population generally
throughout NIanchuria would make
John Pierpont Morgan look like thirty
cents. In fact. Chun Sen Lin was the
king of the Manchurian Wall Street.
He was the Far East robber, as Nor
gan,-well, everybody knows what Nor
gan does on Wall street.
These red haired robbers were in the
pay of the Chinese army and the pay
1f he t., ~
the most of the wages of his army of
say ten thousand men. 1t was through
the good offices of this bandit chief that
I, with an American cavalry officer
named Boyd, got up toward the north
where great battles were in progress. l
arrived too late for the great Lao Yang
battle, but I can say this that the
casualties on both sides put out of COM
mission about 10000 men. The Jap
anese are not making public all their
losses. Neither are the%Russians. The |
was dreadful. What does the |
medical department do? Prac-
tically nothing. It is the Japanese field !
hospital service that is the most Won |
derful ever found with an army, an |
cient Or modern. The Japanese have |
arrived at the most perfect system of I
hospital aid to the wounded and sick /
that l have ever seen or dreamed of. |
1t is marvellous.
Il afterwards went down to China
proper and was at Che Foo when the
Russian vessels arrived in port from
Port Arthur.
1T was heartrending to see such mag
niflcent vessels as. the Russians pos
;essed, scattered to the four winds after
their futile sortie from Port Arthur.
The torpedo-boat Reisitilani came into
che Foo, and the captain told me aft
erwards that when he delivered pack
age of documents and messages from
he commander CT the Port Arthur gar
'ison, he was perfectly willing to have
lis vessel dismantled. The vessel was
iismantled, and during the next night
japanese boat came into the harbor
md the commander sent his card
Hoard the Russian boat. The Russian