The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-02-03
KUROKI IS
BAD SHOT.
Hare Tells Good Stories
OF Life Before
Mukden.

| j. H Hare, correspondent for Col
liers, and one of the few men who
really reached the front in the Russo
japanese war, is a passenger TO the
States on the Coptic. He is on his way
home for furlough and says that he
may have to return for the opening of
! the campaign this spring. Hare is the
man who has been furnishing most of
the war photographs that have ap-
peared in Golfers. He joined General
kuroki at the commencement of his
campaign and has been with him ever
since. He was at the battle of Lao
yang and was among the first to enter
the city. He saw Grant Wallace there
and, although he makes no claim him.
self, reports are that he and Wallace
were the only men on the Japanese
side who really saw the battle Hare
was with Kurokis army and Wallace
was with Oku
He proceeded northward with the
army in pursuit of Kuropatkin and was
with the japanese on the banks of the
Shaho until a few weeks ago. He says
that he does not believe that there |
Gently although there may have been |
outpost skirmishes. The Japanese !
army is practically without intrench- !
ments and is living mostly in dugouts. |
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tensely cold and the ground is frozen i,
so hard that entrenching without the |
use of dynamite is an utter impossible !
ty. In fact when he left the armies /
We're lying dormant
KUROKI COULDN'T SHOOT.
Mr.. Hare laughed heartily when told !,
that report had been circulated that
General Kuroki was dead. 1T reminds
me of the time when Mark Twain was
seen by a reporter in regard to a re-
port of his DEATH" asked Mr.. Hare.
The great humorist replied that he
could say that the report had been
greatly exaggerated I saw General
the day [ left and he was very
FAR from being dead. He is a fine man
and treated me well. The day before
left the staff and attaches had target
practice. Col. Hume of the British
army made the highest score. General
Ian Hamilton of Boer war fame the
second while General KuroId. General
Fuji, his chief of staff, Col Hageno
md myself all made the same score
hat is we didn't hit the target at all" |
BETWEEN THE LINES.
Much of the territory along the Shaho
s neutral sometimes being in the
lands of one party and sometimes of
he other. Mr.. Hare tells a new story
# life between the lines that he viii :
Tot vouch for himself, but which he ,
eard from a Japanese officer, and be-
lev es to be true. According TO the |
story there is a certain cave in the
eutral strip which was captured and I
ecaptured nearly every day. AT night I
he Japanese would sneak up and take | =
he position. but when day came the
russians would come up With superb
+ force and retake it. as their artil
cry helped to make the place unten-
BILE.
Now, the japanese soldiers are very
eat and Clearly. but the Russians are
lot, so that after taking the cave one
light the Japs found it in a very dirty
ondition, 80 when they We're driven ;
Ut of it next day they left a bottle t
f whisky and a note reading. why $
ont you keep this place cIean?" When :
hey captured it again the next night
hey found two roubIes and another )
ote, reading, Why don't you treat I
our prisoners better?" To this the :
japanese replied by note written in I
russian by Colonel Hagena, who is
he Russian scholar of Kuroki's staff
aging laconically, I'VE do" with proof
/ the shape of some of Hares photos c
japanese prisoners attached. n
HOW THE ARMIES LIE. c
The two armies are encamped along ,
1e banks of the Shaho the japanese
osition being about twelve miles south
f Mukden. The front of the armies is y
bout thirty miles long. Mr.. Hare said -
nat he could not say just how many
len the Japanese had. but that it was
)newnere in the neighb0rhood Of go c
No. though a the time he left it was $
cling greatly augmented by reinforce D
ents from the Port Arthur army. =,
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