Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-14 | Page 22 | A Disgruntled War-Scribe

A DISGRUNTLED VAR-SCRIBE. Following the Sun-I'lag. a Vain Pursuit through Manchuria By John Fox, Jr. Publlsheil by Charles Si rlbivr s Sons. New Vork; A R Dei go & Co., Salt Lake It Is cldent from this book that the author?- bears back to America more cha-grb; cha-grb; thai trophies. Hi do'-st, t tell us mm h about the '..ir 7,,r ho In fact saw nothing of It; but he has written bnt7 some viy charming pictures of his sojourn in Japan. Ja-pan. The chapter. "Thi Trail of the Saxon." sketches the journey to Japtih; "Hardships of the Campaign" tells of meetings with natives and the customs that are strange; 'Llng ring In Tokio" shows the frankness with which strangers are received; ' Making for Manchuria' tells of the Joiirnej and arrival and the "pooling" with other correspondents; "On the War-Dragon's Trail" Is a story of dif-llculty; dif-llculty; "The White Slaves of Hah. hung" gets tho party to 'the front, when- they find that they must stay four miles back from the flrlug line, and "The Backward Trail" fctehes them to Jri.;ui again. Arvl he sorrowfully conclude.- "Of this war in detail I know no more than 1 should hao known had I stayed at home and It hao taken me seven months to learn that I should not know more Mi- opinion of Japanese truth and veracity Is absolutely below zero, and ha naturally r tents being be-ing trilled with. But other correspondents correspond-ents certainly got to the front, and have told very thrilling Btories Of what they saw. Perhaps Mr. Fox gave the Japanese Japa-nese Officials ihe Impression that he was not very keen for the eight of battle. But anyway, ho hns given us some very charming pictures of his sojourn In la-pan, la-pan, and delightful reading It is, for tho most part