The Hawaiian gazette., 1905-02-03
KUR0K| IS
BAD SHOT
Hare Tells Good Stories
Of Life Before
Mukden.


liers, and one of the'few sm@ who
really reached the front in the Russo
Japanese war, is passenger to the
States. on the Coptic. He is on his way
home for ,furlough and says that he
may have to return forithe opening OF
the campaign this spring. Hare is the
man who has been furnishing most of
the war photographs that have APP
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
was with Kurokfs 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 few weeks ago. He says
that he does not believe that there
have been any large engagements re-
Gently although there may have been
outpost skirmishes. The japanese
army is practically without intrench-
ments and is living mostly in dugouts.
There is little snow although it is in
tensely cold and the ground is frozen
SO hard that entrenching without the
use of dynamite is an utter impossible
ty. In fact when he left the armies
were lying dormant
KURoKI COULDN'T SHOOT.
Mr.. Hare laughed heartily when told
that a. 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.
1.-THE great humorist replied that he
could say that the report had been
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Kuroki the day left and he was very
far from being dead. He is fine mar
and treated me we'll. The day before
l left the staff and attaches had target
practice. Col. Hume of the British
army made the highest, score, Genera
Ian Hamilton of Boer war fame the
second while General Kurok, Genera
Full, his chief of staff, Col. Hagenc
and myself all made the same score
that is we didn't hit the target at all.
BETWEEN THE LINES.
Much of the territory along the Shaho
is neutral, sometimes being in the
hands of one party and sometimes OF
the other Mr.. Hare tells a new story
of life between the lines that he will
not vouch for himself, but which he
heard from a japanese officer, and be-
leves to be true. According to the
story there is certain cave in the
neutral strip which was captured and
recaptured nearly every day. At night
the japanese would sneak up and take
Russians would come up with superb
or force and retake it, as their artil-
lery helped to make the place unten-
able.
Now, the Japanese soldiers are very
neat and clearly, but the Russians are
not, so that after taking the cave one
night the Japs found IL in a very dirty
condition, so when they We're driver
out OF 1t next day they left a bottle
of whisky and note reading, why
don't you keep this place clean?" Wher
they captured it again the next night
, they found two roubles and another
note, reading, why don't you trea
: your prisoners betterGs To this TIL,
Japanese replied by note written il
, Russian by Colonel Hagena, who /.
the Russian scholar of Kuroki's staff
saying laconically, I'VE do" with proc
In the shape of some of Hare's photo
a Of Japanese prisoners attached.
HOW PIE ARMIES LIE.
The two armies are cncamped along
the banks OF the Shaho. the Japanes,
, position being about twelve miles south
of Mukden. The front of the armies Il
I about thirty miles long. Mr.. Hare sale
that he could not say just how man!
men the Japanese had. but that II wa
somewhere in the neighborhood of $50,
900, though at the time he left It wa
being greatly augmented by reinforce
ments from the Port Arthur army.
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