The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1920-10-01
AN
E'iFNR
DAY
ps7Yos
Canoway's
Code

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n New York Enterprise sent II.
i cnns~ay AZ special correspondent
= N Russo-Japarese Portsmouth
~.
- two months Galloway hung
- Yokohama and Tokyo. shaking
- vssh the other correspondents
= t1nks OF 'rickshaws--oh. no.
- something to ride IN. anyhow.
= uamy earning the salary that
- mper was paying him. But that
- nos Caiioway's fault The little
nwun men who held the strings OF
~ bekween their fingers were not
- for the readers OF the Enter
- b ssason their breakfast bacon
- - with the battles Of the de-
n1nnfs Of the gods
- non the column Of core
0nts that wcrc to 70 out with
~ army tightened their field
A hol1s and went down to the
r Ui1h Kuroki. Galloway was
~ ~ Il no history Of the bat.
R ~ Yaiu river. That has been
= 1rtnn by the correspondents
~ nnosd Il the shrapnel smoke
- - Z distance Of three miles.
~ ~ 1un<ice's sake. let II be un-
GHuoooa that the Japanese com
nnnlsr prohsbsted near view.
CAIIoWAys feat was accomplished
nucRs the hAstie. What he did was
- furnish the Enterprise with the
Ntggest beat Of ~ war. That paper
puhanhed EXCLUSIVELY and In detail
the news Of the attack on the lines
Y The RUSSIAN General zassulitch
n the mrne Day that 1t was made.
No Other papes printed a word about
\ fcr two days aftsrward. except .
London paper. whose account was
absolutely Incorrect and untrue
Galloway did this In face OF ths
bet that General kuroki was making
~ moves and laying his plans with
ths profoundcst secrecy as far an
Dc World outside his camps was
epncerned The correspondents were
erbidden 10 send out any news
whatever Of his plans: and every
nesngs that was allowed on the
wires was censored with rigid Sc
vsnsy.
The correspondent for the London
Hp<r hanaed In a cnblegram de-
Hr1iang kurokfs plans: but as II
was wrong from beginning to end
- censor grfnned and let II go thru
10. there they were-Kuroki on
- side Of the Yalu with $4,000 in
nntfy. 5000 cavalry and 12f guns.
= ~ other side. Zassulitch waited
~ him with only $4,000 men. and
u:th long stretch OF river 70 guard.
ana Galloway had got hold OF some
mpcrsant inside information that he
NEW would bring the Enterprise
All around a cablegram as thick as
ihes around Park Row lemonade
and II be could only get that
nssaase east the censor-the new
ssnsof who had arrived and taken
- post that day,
galloway did the obviously proper
u'ns- BE lit his pipe and sat down
= gun carriage 10 think IL over.
ena There we must leave him: for
rest OF the story belongs to
10y sis-a-weekreporter on the
Dterprise.
cailoways cablegram was handed
ths managing editor at 4 O'Clock
ths Afternoon. He read IL three
INES and then drew a pocket mir
~ from pigeon hole In his desk
- booked at his reflection carefully.
- ne went over to the desk Of
ya' his assistant Che usually called
ya when be wanted him, and laid
- eabiegram before him.
ns from Galloway" he said. "Sce
snst you make OF H."
me message was dated at wi.pu.
~ nsre we're the words OF IL.
sofesone preconcerted rash witch.
soes muffled rurnor mine dark
~ unfortunate richmond existing
sss hotly brute select mooted par.
q ssars ye angel incontroverti.
noyd read II twice.
-. either a cipher or a sun.
sfoke," said he.
4 . ssef near Of anything like a code
~ s oifice--a secret code7" asked
- ~ e. who had held his desk for
80 v '~o years Managing editors
~ 'one except the vernacuiar tha,
- A'y specials write in" said
s,',s % "CouIdE't be an acrostic
-. mousht Of that" said the m. ca
~ ~ ne beginning letters contain
Iour vowe;s. II must be a code
~ EN- in groups" suggested
%ts see--1sash w1tchins
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