| Show nN X N i WM J yr GENERAL STOESSEL DIRECTING DI THE DEFENSE n i la laA laI 1 A I l rl l s r ea ear 1 w P Pi f 4 i r a ay r dl r i y ti tir r r y l lt t 1 r 1 I r I j J 1 m mi mt t I I i 4 t 4 w t v te s e s sr r ti I vt c a i x i i i I V f T I v vj 1 oA li ll Af 1 n o f IW j 10 1 K 1 Th Human ial general generalis Is he offering a bravo b rave and stubborn resistance t to the suck of the Japanese Jalu TUB The fact fRet that long range field s must mast be he con ItA lIy nM n 11 In modern modem warfare given 81 Idea of an a the great distances that usual I ly Iy i ii it the armies armlee II j N U H N M the h IS and aid they Wire were very sr much lIMe aure a The K hOV V m rn h It mistake In III ri IA t ling rK thov th r enterprise gentle ire Irr fit In 11 Z tart start that they were sot not vast 1 d that hal few t Ot of them would b bWy be m d f n It Wy tl the fillY army The Tho war corr cor I Ij dd not have relished he ea jh h n a gr of or have f course tUNI emu would madr a ado lido about I toll It th tin r 1 soon on have hAo b been tvr tr r n ni d 1 in th government would hAe haVe tot Mr r I fr rr l te ln Independence and an erie ds l e i nod nd Its lis 8 knew 8 in III It nN fl n rg I I hut uti for tor fr fear ear of at f gl a I V I 7 misled and end still con can cont the bv br h II t n h they have hilO never noer Intend end f 1 f 1 rl 1 over the corn 1 not nt of r ri I a u b r a th the h have been enter I i p at ai i klaps I h dance Id or a banquet Imp Fr I is r I m r honor r hy by y some somo t I six Ix months this his Ami ft l 11 s d UP t duplicity has lon eon i il r number of herome dis d NN p NJ M A tent to gratify the correspondents and explain with grout doUll the why Ih At the war office oHlee however the pre lIre pretenses tenses tonS 8 are arc still maintained and ant when over oer one of ot the anxious wailing uniting curro corro makes there liu ho is 18 Informed that the second detachment of correspondents will ll bi bl sent nt to tho the front next fek or certainly tho the week tk after Whenever n a lIt asks whether It would be sate safe for lor him to go goto goto goto to Nikko or to for or a n few fOI days dayn the Japanese will shake huke their heads gravely and advise him not notto notto notto to do 10 so 80 o for tor fear f nr the expedition may ma start starl without tit him One Ono prominent official told me lIle that more mote than men melt had ap up piled for tor permission lon to go to 10 the thc t hA front including 50 SO foreigners Of Ol the latter number SH M were Americans 36 38 were w ro English Including l h papers In Shanghai and other Chinese cities and the thA remainder stern from Germany Franco France Belgium Italy It aI and Austria In order Of or that number he henn nn as that hat 10 per cent were im nr or Irresponsible and worth worth adventurers winch which U Is e MI wily ily true tru Ivery man hero who Is I well welt with 1111 his hla profession proto elon can con pick out the black sheep who usually appear early At nt scenes of excitement And un undoubtedly undoubtedly the tho government has hOI taken pains to uncertain n the character and antecedents of every man who has nil n plied piled to 10 co go to the front especially especially y those who are not personally per vouched for tor at the legation of their government foreign newspaper man non manIn manIn I In addition to about representatives representative of tho the Japanese e press r I made a I formidable ble blo battalion battalion lion especially as no each cAch of the tile foreigners tor for permission to take toko an Interpreter and a Ii servant I J 1111 told tol l that one cue of or the English correspondents cor correspondents respondents had also aha a n private secre seere secretary tary Lary end a n rook One Ono newspaper sent Bent seven nevon ae 11 then tuen another sent four and sev ICV several coal eral have Ime three men on the Japanese side without counting those who n TO observing the WAr from China One Of It of the tho steamers that arrived hero horo In February mulled twentynine war cor correspondents correspondents respondents from fro In the United States Stales alone If tho the war department had net Olt nd ad f favorably upon every ever application the commander of the th Japanese troops In would now have ha r not col less lens thon 0 critical gentlemen of ot the tho press preen K to 10 take care cafe of and every reasonable correspondent admits promptly prompt that fuch n a thing would be Impossible Anti And their hl Ile and kits and 1111 n a ship to ay say nothing of or their horses and th Ih lire forage for that must bo ha for them At one time It II was proposed proponed that representatives of ot the several everal press n nil M n only should be allowed tn to accompany each earh of If the three armies and that the remainder of the correspondents cor correspondents respondents should bo be definitely oil ad Isoo that their Applications were Ir hr Irrevocably rejected It was ft aiM I no pro proposed proposed posed that the t e c correspondents correspondent choose ChOOM ten or twelve of n their own number who might bo be divided among the set se cral coal armies and permitted to tee tele teleGraph Graph to Tokyo Toko curls 1 news newa as ae the cn POI For would permit for tor the common use Itse of at all the tho papers represented here hert but buta n a member of ot tho the ministry who ho Is III fa ta familiar millar with newspaper management In III Inthe tho the United States soon convinced his hili colleagues that thol such lIuch u a plan was Im fill Impracticable practicable This division of counsels and the Inability of the tho ministers to agree upon n a solution of ot tho the problem permitted permit led matters to drift along until It necessary for somebody to 10 act when general Daron naron Kodama Jo II nu assistant chief of the general start staff assumed the tho responsibility which other oth r members of the tho government were perfectly p willing ho should do Ho lie asked tho the correspondents to appoint n a committee to 10 represent them In their relations with the war office In order to time lime and contusion confusion and each tOch side able speaks with great Brent respect of the Iho other correspondents were nilow eel I 1 to t go to the front with the First 1 army IT and have ha C been In Manchuria all this time which an as you 01 must admit were about an nil many us as the most In Intelligent n commanding general could take lake care are of or of these theliA represented l Japanese e papers sixteen were foreigners and six fix Ix were Amen Ameri American ran can As All tho the government would not lIot make link time the selection end and thin Iho f foreign legations declined to 10 do so the corro come were asked to t designate those of ot their own number to whom permission should hould be ho granter granted This Thin was waR done by II ballot ntH with com commendable commendable fairness and decorum The Th war promised er that twenty foreigners should go KO with the Second army arm and nod that number of correspondents correspond eats was selected l in tho rho same manner but they have not been beon allowed to tolono leave lono And a II third detachment has hns also been selected for tho the Third army although their prospects of or getting Betting to the front have hav never been encouraging Several of those thoe who went scent with the tho First army have returned anti have de do declared dared that the tho restrictions and ond condi condl conditions Imposed by b the Japanese e authorities ties lIs are aro Intolerable and amI that the tho regu rOKU regulations lations deprive them of all nil their use usefulness u e to their employers They are treated practically as nil prisoners of at war scar They The are aro not allow allowed wl to leave IrRO the camp or to In communicate with unknown persons persona and whatever they the write even een their private letters to their wives mind fir families are alO read rend by till the censors be he before before fore fort they the can eRn be he sent nellt Tim combined news dispatches dl of the entire sixteen are arc limited to toX 36 X words n a day which prevents them from conveying any details of events In order to promote their mutual Inter Interest oat est an agreement has been made by which mulch the tho correspondents still at nt head headquarters headquarters quarters are aro divided Into three detach detachments detachments ments of five e each rh and e each ch detach detachment ment has n a chance nt at the wire on an al alternate ternate thus thull giving each of Its members fifty words every three days This Thin works R much better than tho the oriS original inal InRI Ice Individual arrangement hut but as us n a consequence on tome some of at the tho most event eventful eventful ful tot days live fie of the tho th correspondents en rim enjoy joy jO a n monopoly of ot the tho news while the tho papers represented by tho the other ten 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