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ANTUNO, Manchuria, Majr 10. (From a
Start Correspondent of the New Tork Herald-Special
to The Bee.) This momini I
law a copy of the Herald of Sunday, March
13, In which there waa an article dealing
with the expense of the war to the newspa
per and the comparatively email results
obtained. The writer waa rood enough
to say that It waa not the' fault of men
In the field that more newi waa not forth
coming from them. I have referred In
oms of my letter to the restriction and
regulation which hedge via around. Here
la a sample of what happened at the time
of the fight for the TaJu, and against
which there la no guarantee for the future.
On the morning of April SO headquarter
mortd from Shokoda, back of WUu, to a
place called Oenkado, a little northeast of
WUu and almost on the bank of the Talu.
It wa fir mile beyond Its old location.
which bad been L lttle more than three
mile from the camp of the correspondents,
who were assigned to a place In the low
alley away from a much as possible of
th army movement tn order to keep them
from seeing anything that waa going on.
When headquarter moved we aaked per
mission to move also, but It waa not
granted. One result was that 'We had to
tide sixteen mile that evening to get our
message passed by the censor.
Next morning after the fight wa were
told by the eupervlslng officer that he waa
not aure whether headquarter had moved
on again or not, but he Thought It bad.
He would go to Oenkado and let us know.
Meanwhile w were to go back to our camp
and await th coming of his orderly. When
at :30 o'clock th orderly bad not arrived
with the promised message we saddled our
horse and started out to look up head
quarter for ourselves. We found the su
pervising officer In bis old camp, alone.
He said that be had been to Oenkado, but
headquarter had gone on and had left no
order there ' for him. He had therefor
come back to hi old place to wait for
orders. , Non had yet arrived.
He had Just written us a note te say
that under the circumstances the best
thing for us to do waa to wait In our camp
until be should hear from headquarters.
H reconsidered that, however, when we
talked with him and said that we might
go on In search of headquarters. He would
wait a little longer. And If nothing cams
for him be would follow us. , He was
mounted on a bicycle, hi horse having
been taken for some other use.
A .Sesureh for Headquarter.
The official hour for receiving messages
submitted to th censor was between 4
and B in the evening. It waa after 4 when
we left the house of the supervising of
ficer, with five mile yet to go to the place.
' We had no time to lose, and we lost none.
No sign of headquarters was left to Oen
kado, nor any man who could give us the
least hint of where it waa. The stream
of men and horses and carts was all mov
ing across the Talu, going over the first
channel on two bridges just above Oen
kado. We followed. The bridges led to
Kurlto Island, and In a few minutes there
we were, ' struggling to make speed
through, sand that cam up to the fetlocks
of th horse. The road, or rathfr the
trail,' for there Is 'no road through sand,
wa filled with transportation and men as
far a w could see, but well ahead we
made out the Peking cart'and some of the
Chinese Interpreters who had been attached
to headquarters below Wlju.
It was a, steady, hard jush to get
through the sand across Kurlto. The of
ficial hour for ' receiving messages had
gone by when we came to the second
channol at the far side of the island. It
was th main stream' of tit Yalu. wide,
deep and swift Th pontoon bridge was
crowded with th men and animals of
the army, and tnere wa no chance for
the man who would no. push for himself.
W jammed our way Into the string and
got on the bridge. On the far side the
and continued, softer and deeper, if pos
sible, than before. No man knew where
headquarter had gone, W asked them
by the dozen. , .
We had carefully learned the Japanese
words, but now w discovered that there
was a great flaw In our knowledge; we
could never understand what the other
fellow replied to our question. They
talked enough when we questioned . them
to have answered us many times over,
but as we could not understand a word
we were Just as badly off at the end a at
the beginning. And, for a wonder, we
found no officer of all the lot we passed
who could apeak English, German or
French. It was the first time I had ever
een so many Japanese officer without
finding on with whom I could talk.
Hard Hiding;. '
, Now w struck a new kind of mean
road. Th sand changed Into stone, rang
ing In else from Uttle pebbles to cobbles
as big a a man' two fists. This waa
even more dlffloult going than th sand,
for It hurt the feet of the horses. They
suffered so evidently In going over the
tone that It waa Impossible to hurry
them, and th sun kept dropping - lower
and lower, with still no sign of headquar
ter. At last, we'll after th closing of
the hour for Inspection, we came near the
astern baa of Tiger Hill, and then wJ
learned that during the day General
Kurokl had had hi headquarter In the
field near the big rock. We struggled on
with renewed hope. There was a chance
that he not moved on, although the cer
tainty that he had scored a great vic
tory practically convinced us all that he
must have gone on to Chullang Cheng.
The faint hope that - we should And the
commander-in-chief at Tiger Hill wa soon
dispelled. We crossed another bridge, over
the small channel of the Al river that
separates Tiger Hill from Oseklto biland,
rounded th base of the big rock and
found there only some of the batteries that
had helped to play havoc with the Rus
sians In the morning. Nor could any man
of those we saw tell us where the general
had gone. lielow us, across a wide strip
of sand, covered here and there with
atche of water, lay the village of Chang
ftClang Dal, where the Chines custom
house wa. This w-
ysti'aslans had held and which we called
fnlng Ping, for lack of an official nam.
We headed there, for Japanese officer
could be distinguished walking about. It
waa after o'clock now, and we began
to be doubtful of getting our messages
passed even If we could come up with
tieaduarters. Here we met a soldier for
v whom there ie great hope. When we
called ' out the old question as to the lo
cation of Del Ichl Oun Bhlrelbu (first
army headquarters) he understood what
we wanted. More, he knew that we would
not understand his reply If he answered
In Japanese. So he turned In his saddle
and simply pointed toward Chu Liang
Cheng. That man shall have my vote
for member of Parliament t when I be
com a Japanese subject.
The going waa very slow, and once we
fell Into quicksand and two of the horses
lerer nearly mired. One man got through
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all hens at, per pound 110
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limited stock as long as they -
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Pork Butts per pound 6H
Spare Ribs per pound . So'
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headquarters had gone on, how far the of
ficer who e-ave the Information did not
know, probably to Chu Liang Cheng. We
were now about fifteen mile from our
camp and Chu Liang Cheng waa still an
other fjve miles distant, with the unbrldged
main atream of the At river between u
and It,. But we had seen the men cross
It In two place that morning, and ther
must be a way for u, q we pushed on.
At the river bank. Just eastward from Chu
Liang Cheng we could plainly see two tent
of tho hospital corps that marked a field
station.
" The lon lines of men and carts kept
hurrying forward and we fell in with some
of them. Soon we oame to the ground over
which the Infantry had advanced In the
morning, and preaently had evidence of the
character ,of the work the Russian had
done In the body of a dead soldier lying on
the sand. It wa not covered and a curious
group of men stood around It. They had
examined the contents of the pockets and
wer ohatterlng about a photograph which
they had found. A little beyond this body
lay another, similarly surrounded by curi
ous soldier.
Dtfflealt Fordlaa;. ,
Then came the river. As we approached
It we saw the kind of crossing we were
to have from the preparation the men
were making. They were stripping off
their trousers and rolling up their shirts,
getting ready for a wade through deep
water. The telegraph had been taken over
already and the poles marked the line of
the ford. The river was several hundred
yards wide, and crowds of men were going
and coming with loaded pack Bfllinal
and oarts. There was much shouting and
laughing, as if It were all a good Joke and
the water was not cold enough to chill a
man to the marrow. In we plunged, along
with a mixed lot of officers, men, carts,
pack ponies, Corean and Chinese coolies.
It was . a narrow ford, that necessitated
close watching to .keep on the shallow
trip. ' Half way over two pack ponies
got below the ripple that marked the ford.
Half a doien men sprang to their assist
ance In an Instant, and for a few minute
there wa a lively soramble to aave the
ponies, which floundered and struggled
about In th water and refused to be
helped It they could prevent It. The men
won at lost, and the ponies were dragged
out into shallow water again, with their
packs soaked.
A short strip of sand border th north
bank of the Al, where we crossed. Just
beyond it, on th firm ground, we found
the field hospital we had seen with all
the surgeons very busy. Now, too, we got
new of headquarter that wa definite,
for Colonel Hagino, chief of th Intelli
gence section, was at th hospital. He
speaks Russian, and was busy talking to
some of the wounded officer and men of
the enemy, who bad been brought in for
treatment.
Several of the surgeons spoke Overman,
and they (topped long enough in their
work to tell us something of the results
of the battle from their point of view.
Tbey had dressed at that station already
more than too wounded men of their own
side, and were now beginning to treat the
Rusaluns who had been hit
Wttk tka Waaaded.
There was on poor Russian on the op
erating table as wa came up.. He was
a lieutenant of the Twenty-second East 81.
berlan regluient who had been wounded
three tiroes, one in th right hand, one
in the right leg, by a rifle bullet, and In
the left le by a piece of shrapnel. He was
vary pale, and his tips were firmly set to
keep back any sign of pain, but it was evl
dotit from the whole expression of bis fac
that he waa suffering greatly. Yet h con
trolled himself wall enough to convex a
little with one of the men who spoke
French, and to express the belief that he
waa not so badly hit but that he should
b around again before vary long. He
had been in the Russian trench above
Conical Rock, where the men had mad
th most desperate fight of the day in
spite of the terrible pounding they received
from the Japanea guns.
Lying in th two tents were a few Jepa
naae offlcar who had bean hit Th
wounded xoaa vera aa atr ohars
blanket on the ground across th road
from the tents. They lay in four or five
long rows, and ome of them were already
smoking cigarettes and making the best
of their condition. They bore tholr
wounds and pain with amazing stoicism,
but no more stoutly than did their wounded
enemies. Thera was a Russian offlcar lying
on a hoard near one of the tents. He had
been hit through the body and it waa plain
to anyone that his wound was mortal. He
knew It, too, and the look in his eyes as
he turned them upon the little group 1 of
correspondents was one ' not easily, to be
forgotten. He seemed to wonder at first
what we were doing there, as if he thought
we might be fighting for Japan. Then he
understood and the hard look left bis face.
One of the men spoke to him and offered
him a drink of water. When we came
away be turned hi head and looked after
us, a mute appeal to race sympathy, an
appeal that will not be denied. '
It was S o'clock when we rode away
from the hospital and nearly dark. The
staff colonel ad told us we could have a
message over the field wire that evening
In oonformlty with the regulation, which
said we could send twenty words' on the
occasion of a great battle, and that we
could send it from ChuHajig Cheng. We
hurried now, and were not long in getting
into the town, for there was hope of send
ing off that twenty words. Almost at the
outer edge of the town we met a gendarme,
who asked If wa were foreign correspond
ents. To our affirmative reply be responded
that there waa a building assigned to us
already. Evidently there had been a mis
take, and it had been expected that we
would move over to Chullang Cheng that
afternoon.' But no word had come to us,
and the only prospect was a night ride
back over the twenty-one miles to our
camp. . t
Haadqaarters Found.
Headquarter was in a large, comfortable
Chinese building, almost of the dignity of
a magisterial yarnen. The compound waa
already beginning to be piled with the spoil
of th victory, rifle and ammunition and
a few swords. Th general wa walking
in th yard with some of hi staff, includ
ing Major General Fujll, th chief of staff,
and Prince Kurd, who Is a first lieutenant
and adjutant on th atafl. Several Russian
prisoner had already been brought in and
th new wa that mora wer eomlng.
Tbr was great bustle about th court
yard, with officer and orderlies coming
and going, and prisoner being constantly
brought in, most of them wounded. Search
ing parties were out going over all the
field, and as fast a wounded men were
found they were brought in. The Japa
nese wer doing everything in their power
to make the wounded of th enemy as com
fortable a possible. Dr. Tamura, the
headquarters surgeon, personally attended
several of those brought in while we were
there.
General Kurokl . came up to th little
group of correspondent and w wer In
troduced to him. We had been with head
quarter for ten day, but this wa the
first opportunity we had had to meet the
general. He said he had waited for this
day to meet the correspondents, because
up to that time he had been too much oo
cupled with the work of preparing for
the battle which we had seen. He turned
to Oenaral Fujll and the chief of staff an
nounced that there had been captured by
the Japanese twenty-eight Russian guns,
twenty officer and a great many men, the
exact number of whom waa not yet known.
Neither wa the number of Japan casu
alties, but tbey wer several hundred.
Oeneral Kurokl spoke again, and this
time we got the good news that we were
to be permitted to send forty words each
over the military wire and would not be
held to the common message for those
correspondent who represented paper in
the am town, as the regulation contem
plated. Then the general said that the
Russian had displayed very great gal
lantry in th tenacity with which they
had held their position. They had road a
fin fight, and he was glad to express hi
admiration of them a soldier.
When he had finished. Oeneral Fujll
gsva us a few more detail at th fighting
and th result, and then w scattered i
about to get our telegrams ready. Wa
had all written long telegrams to be sent
down by courier to Ping 'Yang, and each
man had a twenty word message ready
for the field wire, which he now .had to re
write to get In the additional fact and to
use' up the forty wards allowed. It was
quit i dark in ).the . compound and there
were no candle, but some soldier built
a fire and by the light of that we got
through our work. It wa not so easy to
get through with the censor.
Back to the Censor.
The two officers attached to headquar
ters who speak English were not yet up.
One was our supervising officer, who was
back ' somewhere near his old camp, and
his associate had not been heard from.
Besides, every officer of the staff was as
busy as he could be with the work of the
army, and a dozen times or more Colonel
Hagino, the chief censor, was obliged to
lay down a telegram half read and rush
off to see about this or that or talk to
some Russian who' had Just been brought
in. Then it was announced that It would
be Impossible for our field messages to be
sent from Chu Liang Cheng, because no
operators had come up who oould handle
English. So we should have to go back
to the office at th old headquarter at
Shoko-do to 01 them.
' It would be an ugly rid back. In the
face of all those miles of transportation
moving our way, and our horses had had
nothing to eat Neither had we, but that
did not count much if only the horse got
something. The accusation has since been
made that thera were men that night who
took the nose bags 'off horse standing in
the yard to get a feed for their own
animals, but surely 'no Dal Ich) Iohi (71rstJ
Army), correspondent would do that. It
would not be. in conformity with the reg
ulations. The moon was due to rise about
10 o'clock, and we decided to wait for It
in order to have a little light In fording the
Al river. No one exactly relished, that
part of the homeward Journey, for it waa
a tricky ford, and following a tipple ia not
easy under the cloud-obscured meon.
Mora Wounded.
As we stood in th compound waiting for
the moon to com up we saw several more
Russian brought in. Two cam together,
both weunded. On bad been shot through
the body and wa on a stretcher, Th
other -waa weunded in th arm and could
walk. As th Utter bearer laid down their
stretcher the man on it opened his eyes
and stared at the group of strange faces
about him. Then he began to pray in Ger
man, and never waa a more fervant "unser
vater; uttered by a man than that mum
bled by this poor fellow In his desperate
need. The Japanese crowding around did
not understand and only stared at the for
eigner standing bareheaded until the sim
ple prayer was ended. His petition finished
be began to call on his captain for water.
None of th Japanese near him compre
hended, but one of the correspondent, who
happened to know the Japanese word for
water, told a soldier. The man ran away
and returned immediately with a big cup
brimming full. The poor fellow on th
litter gulped it down with eager swallow
and sank back on th stretcher. Away
went th soldier again and brought another
cupful, and th wounded man drank that
too, with a look' of such dumb gratitude
In his eyes as on sees In a stricken animal
that finds unexpected help.
Meantime the other man was still stand
ing beside the litter of his comrade Now
one of the Japanea undertook to show
him that he waa free to sit down. With
different signs and gestures he strove to
mak th Russian know what he meant,
but In vain. At last he moved the Rus
sian a little to on side to get room, and
himself sat down beside the stretcher!
Then the Russian understood and clumsily
tried to alt down. H was stiff and hurt
and cam near falling,, but two" or thraa of
the Japanese soldier caught Mm and
helped him down. Than Genera) Fujll cam
up and gave him a cigarette, 'which th
poor devil took, as if it war a draught
of th elixir of life,
Thera waa an officer brought In about
this tlma who had bee ahot through the
body from side to side. It was a desperate
wound, and the surgeon who examined It
knew that the man could not live, but he
did what he could to make him as com
fortable as possible. ' The wounded officer
bore the pain of the examination and
dressing without a murmur, .but when he
saw the face ot the correspondents about
him there came a gleam Into his eyes that
made It hard not to be able to speak freely
with him. J
Thee had been slackening of the busy
occupation of all at headquarters when we
started away, a little after 10 o'clock. The
streets of Chullang Cheng were full of men
passing to and fro, transportation comirig
In and men busy about camp fires getting
their belated supper. We had a lantern
from headquarters that bore the inscrip
tion, "Grand Army Headquarters," for a
passport on the road, and they said that
if we would wait a little longer they would
give us an escort, but It was late enough
already for a twent-mlle ride to the tele
graph office and we started without the
escort
Crossing; the Al.
Just before we got to the Al we met
some artillery coming In and one of the
officer told us that we could get across
directly below WUu, and thus save, the
long ride around Tiger Hill and baok by
Genkado. Some of the men objeoted that
the shortest way home was often the long
est way around, but the majority voted to
try the short cut, and so we kept together.
At the place where we struck the Al it Is
much narrower than where we bad forded
in the evening, and we knew It must be
considerably deeper. There waa a little
fire on each bank, with some foen sitting
beside the one on our side. We started in
with one of the biggest horses in the
lead and a small Corean pony following.
It was too dark to see the ripple very
well, and a little more than half way over
the man ahead lost it.
Two men searched about for it and the
rest of us waiting to see the, result It
came very quickly when both horses sud
denly dropped almost out of sight and
their riders called out to us to go back.
They had slipped off the edge of the bank
they had been following and were swim
ming their horse. Th current wa very
swift and the Corean pony bad a sharp
truggl for It Ufa, but. In a minute or
tw both had struck tk bank again and
climbed out Into the shallow water. Then
w all filed back to th fire, where the
men were. A w went w passed by four
dead men lying on the sand, with nothing
to mark their presence, and not even a
blanket to cover them.
We got back to the fire Just in time to
see a pontoon ferry come In with an am
munition wagon on It The men In charge
said we could send our horses over on the
ferry, five at a time, and as there were more
ammunition wagons to come over to our
side there would be opportunity for the
two trip it would require to take us all
over. Th Japanese bora Is a wild beast.
He kick and fight with any other ani
mal that come near him, and It wa close
quarter for five of them on th ferry,
which waa mad by lashing two pontoons
together with their section of roadway as
when In .use in a brlo.se. We got the
first five ever safely, but half a dosen
time thy mad suoh a row that It seemed
soma of them must surely go overboard.
Th ferry went back, and in half an hour
or so th other flv got across, after a
narrow squeak from losing on or two of
th horse. When we had forded th Ai
in th evening we had approached It from
a strip of land that runs down from Tiger
Hill, but now we had crossed to Chlng
Ping Island, and there was no way to get
oft it except by ferrying. W rod acros
the Island to the main stream of the Yalu,
which Is more than GOO yards wide, deep
and very swift. There wa another ferry,
but thl time no one wanted to com our
way. Thera was a part of a train of
pack ponies on our side when we cam up,
but they were In charge of a non-commt-toned
officer, wh would give u no help.
At th Ferry.
Plenty of th ferryboat were lying along
th bask, but there was no on te work
them. Ve had caught up with one wise
man Just before we got to the Al In the
afternoon who had his interpreter with
him.' The rest of us, all thinking we were
going out for only a short ride, had left
our interpreters behind. ' Nor had a man
of us brought even a water bottle, much
less anything to eat. There was water
a-plenty in the Al rlVer, but no one would
touch It for fear of the results, and there
wa not a drop of boiled water In the out
fit Only the hope of getting back to
camp In an hour or two kept us all from
taking a full drink of th Al water, and
we were thirsty enough to have drunk
from almost any kind of water.
The interpreter tried his best to Induce
some of the soldiers to work the ferry for
us, and we offered them anything in the
way of pay that they wanted, but it was
useless. There wa not an Officer to be
found and we could do . nothing with the
men. We were at the village of, Chang
Klang Dal, but no one had much enthusi
asm for exploring It now. It was well after
midnight and the camp was still miles
away. Those who had voted against the
short cut made sarcastic remarks about
the wisdom of going by the known road,
but the short cut men held their tongues
and prevented Internecine strife.
At last, after an hour or more of useless
waiting, there came a hail from the other
id. Soma on there wanted to com' to
our aide, but bad no boat We wer be
ginning to discuss the advisability of going
back and trying to jget up to Tiger Hill
so as to go around that way, but now th
interpreter announced that he oould handle
one of the ferryboats, if aom of us would
help by pulling the bow oars. Th thing
are propelled by hug sweeps from the
stern, after the manner of sampans, but
oarlock are also fitted In th bows. Thar
were volunteer for, this position very
quickly, and the soldiers making no ob
jection, now that there were men on th
other side who needed a ferry, we got one
of the boats up to the landing, pushed and
hauled five horses aboard and shoved off.
Working; One's Passage.
That was a pull worth the money. Two
of us at the bow oars labored as hard aa
we could, and the interpreter struggled
with the big sweep at th stern. Th cur
rent of mldocean swept us far down below
th landing on the other aide, but once we
gotMnshore near enough we got out the
pole and punted the boat along up to tho
landing. A crowd ot hospital corps men,
going out after wounded, were waiting for
the boat, and It waa essy to get back for
the remaining five horses. It was the trip
where we worked .the ferry that counted.
With only two men to hold five kicking,
struggling, fear-maddened brutes, whllo
the others strove with the oars and sweep,
It was quite aside from a Joke. But we
did It at last, and wer ashore on Klntetto
Island, from which we knew a bridge led
to th mainland below Wlju.
The camp' was almost in sight and we
wer about to strike out for it as a good
pace when w wer held up by two sentries
with rifles In their hilnds, who wanted to
know who and what we were prowling
about Kinteito at such aa hour. , It was
nearly 1 o'clock, and ther wa some reason
for their demand. They belonged to on
of th batterle that had been In servlc
on th Island during the day. Th Inter
preter explained at length, and the sentries
said they would show us the way aoros t
th bridge. Ihey did. We had never been
in Kinteito before, and had only seen it
from th hill back of Wlju, but ach of
us had the direction of th camp pretty
well fixed In hi mind. We were tor start
ing straight across the Island, but the sen
tries took us down stream a long distance
before striking across: ,
They wanted to prevent us .from getting
near their battery, and they said we would
b In danger of being shot if w ap
proached too close. The two men who had
got wet In th effort to ford had crossed
In th first boat and gone on. They es
caped th sentries, aa we afterward found
out, and made a be Una acros Kinteito,
doing it in fifteen minute. Th sentries
managed to lose us, so that wa had to go
up to th battery finally and get a mnn
Who did know th way to go along and
how. it to us. It took more than an hour
before we reached the blessed bridge. Tha
floor of it had been covered with matting
to prevent tha Russians from hearing the
rumble of wheels or the noise of hoofs on
the planks when the artillery was token
across the night: before.
From the bridge it waa plain sailing,
with only a detour ot thleo mile to th
telegraph office at Shokodo. It was i
o'clock when I got back to camp and day
wa breaking. The courier who had been
waiting to go to Ping Yang with the long
message was touted out and started off and
we turned In, to be awakened two hours
later with the information that the canip
was to be broken un aa nnn n th. fhunJ
derstorm then raging had stopped, foe tHe
move u unanang Cheng, aa headquarters
waa likely to go on at once.
Two Disappointments.
That wa what wa did to get out a
forty word message about tha fight for
tha Yalu. Today we got the Joker, ft
came in two ways. First was a copy of
a Tokio newspaper, printed in Japanese;
It wa dated May t, th morning on
which we ended our forty mile ride to
get forty words. It contained one solid
page of description of the battle, made
from th official report received in Toklc
on th night of May 1 and given out to.
th newspaper men ther at once. Ua-:
doubtedly It wa cabled to our papers at
great length, and those messages got In
ahead of our poor Uttle forty wordera. -
The second cheerful bit of Information
came In th chap of messages from tha
forwarding agents In Ping Yang, who
wrote that the telegraph office thera had
been closed for th transmission of mat,
ter not military for twelve days, and that
not on of our messages had been ac
cepted, In spite of the fact that all of
them bore the stamp of the censor at
headquarters here. They bad been sent
on by runner to Seoul, whence they may
have been cabled home after another foyr
days' delay, and after the official report
had grown so old a to be forgotten. Not
even mall matter was delivered in Ping
Yang.
All the correspondents send their dis
patcher In duplicate, on copy by runner
and the other by the military post, the first
to arrive to be forwarded. The Japanese
prevented any of those In the post from
arriving by forbidding the delivery of malls.
They prevented any of those by courier
from going by closing the telegraphs. When
men work all day and ride all night risking
their lives to got out forty words, they are
doing about all they can. Th only thing
left la to wait ' ; '
On the Bowery they, call that sort it
treatment the double cross.
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