The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-20

tientIy waiting for him. their attitude
suggested, and their smiling lips ex-
planned that it was the intense cold
which caused their abrupt and flying
departure. They had borne their dis,
comfort silently, but suddenly il seemed
as though they could not stand it an
other minute They were every, very
sorry.'
Dunn began heated argument, but
noticing n gathering crowd about him.
looked up and found TO his dismaY that
he was surrounded by n detachment of
soldiery. Was he under arrest, he in
dIgnantly demanded, Oh, no. they in
formed him. but they would take care
of him They were very courteous.
He was escorted 10 n hut and penned
in IL for four days, during which time
he made desperate efforts TO reach Gen
eral Sasaki over the military telephone
which had been hastily constructed TO
the front At last he succeeded
The general s voice was shaking with
emotion: indeed his feelings were so
strong that for tho moment he was car
ried away by them, and departed from
the stereotyped lines of the phrase, ="
am so very, very sorry "Sir, - said
General Sasaki, 81 have a great pity
for You, very, very great pity That
was Rll.
The whole course Of procedure is in
=
was not definite order given in the
beginning? If the war department of
Japan did not want photographs taken
Of it's armies why not have said so
bluntly7 Why these devious, eyasive,
ingenious tactics?
Because, says Dunn, they are char
acteristic of this people. IT is easier,
more natural for the Japanese TO ac-
quiesce and then subvcrt than to say
"No!o Again, they were determined
TO offer no indignities to American citi
zcns. Perhaps they regarded posi-
tive refusal as an indignity- AT any
rate. they went to far ends to be cour.
toous and yet adhere to their hard and
fast war policy of silence and mystery;
The commonest soldier understood
and observed the policy as thoroughly
as the most powerful general, Trick
after trick was invented 10 thwart the
photographer at every move.
At first they simulated ignorance Of
the camera Upon preteuce Of search
ing his person they grabbed the Pho
| tographer' s precious instrument and eX-
pressed wonderment over its consfruc-
| tion and purposes. Then, cmmsily, they
opened the shutter and spoiled an Ell.
| tire film or else tried to wind the key
and break it.
AS Dunn learned each subterfugc and
evaded 1t the warfare grew more open
and intense. The soldiers finally re-
sisted the taking of photograph by
rushing him with drawn swords and
bayonets, always hastily apologizing,
however, afterward.
The excellent photo he has of the
Fourteenth regiment was secured only
because the men were too badly dis
abled by cold to stop him. Several
rushed at him across the snow, but
their feet were frozen solid and they
| fell in their tracks before tho camera
clicked. Even then they began their
protests with the inevitable every,
very sorry"
They followed their leaders day in
and day out like sheep TO the slaugh-
ter, evidently just because they had
leader. To any outsider they were
treacherous, dishonest, dishonorable TO
an extreme. but there was pluck, says
Dunn, in every inch of their five feet
Of height. They trudged stolidly on,
on. along the terrible line OF march till
| their frozen limbs gaye way under
them, and then sprawled patiently
along the roadside, perhaps with a
trench for shelter, but oftener with no
protection whatever from the bleak
wind that pierced bone and marrow
waiting there upon their icy beds till
an ambulance came along and n sur
geon cut of their hands, feet, arms or
legs.
Working Secretly.
Along the same line Of march. it
must be remembered, went the pho
tographer, working secretly far into
the night over his films in some desert
ed hut, and by day fighting his way
through snow and ice. The developing
liquid froze as he worked, and the wa
ter, procured here and there by hook
or crook, must be kept constantly
warm. Sometimes the roll Of films
fell from bennmber fingers and the tc-
dious work must be done all over again.
Always there was the suspense that
one moments lack of watchfulness
might ruin the results Of all his work,
enterprise and daring,
Once horse carrying load of val.
liable supplies and films stumbled aud
rolled many hundred feet down the side
of mountain road, leaving patches of
his hide and hair upon the sharp rocks
along the descent. Another faithful
beast fell from pontoon and was car
ters, bearing the last food supplies they
had and any hope of securing.
All obstacles and hardships must be
expected and forestalled if possible;
the unforeseen ones must be stubborn
ly. cunningly met as they arise And
all this in strange country where
treachery nbounded, and where, save
! for a few faithful coolies, he had
every one combating him with might
and main.
When his horses were stolen ne stole
likewise from the japanese, with such
success that one detachment clipped
the hairs from their horses breasts
to mark them, and the animals perished
from the cold and exposure. Again,
by constant inquiries and no little trou-
bic, by purchasing some few develop.
ing powders here and there pound
of hypo or pyro he succeeded at last
not only in supplying all his own wants
but also cornering the market in Korea
and thereby blocking the efforts of
any competitor who might possibly get
through the lines.
All things are fair in war. and this
was true of news rs we'll as of bullets
so far as the photographer was con-
ccrned.
One of the ruses practiced by Japan
upon the correspondents in Toxic was
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