. Review of reviews and world's work. ndents then went to Korea, othersremained at Tokio ; in either case, their role wasridiculous. The writer tells the story of theTimes chartering the Hdirnun for its correspond-ent, who was to sail between the belligerentfleets in order to startle the world with the mostprecise details of the last battle. It seemed asif the greatest thing in war correspondence wasabout to begin. But, alas ! the Japanese wereas cautious about war news as if the boat had 608 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. been a Russian packet ; and the correspondentnot only learned
. Review of reviews and world's work. ndents then went to Korea, othersremained at Tokio ; in either case, their role wasridiculous. The writer tells the story of theTimes chartering the Hdirnun for its correspond-ent, who was to sail between the belligerentfleets in order to startle the world with the mostprecise details of the last battle. It seemed asif the greatest thing in war correspondence wasabout to begin. But, alas ! the Japanese wereas cautious about war news as if the boat had 608 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REVIEW OF REVIEWS. been a Russian packet ; and the correspondentnot only learned nothing new, hut ran seriousrisk of being blown up, with his copy, beforePort Arthur. TROUBLES ON THE RUSSIAN SIDE. The writer then gives some of his experienceswith the Russians. Every day that he passedamong them resembled, he says, a station of thecross. Nothing, nothing, nothing to tell. Thesewere the words the waiting journalists had tohear every day from the general. At St. Peters-burg, the journalists had permits to enter Man-. and seven nights to accomplish. The delays ofthe train were interminable, and the silence ab-solute. Not even the name of a single stationwas ever called out. At length he saw AdmiralAlexieff, the admiral referred him to M. dePlancon, and M. de Plancon told him that later,perhaps, certain dispatches might be possible, butthat at piesent the admiral had decided to stopall press communications from Manchuria. Thesame day, in the midst of a blinding snow-storm,the journalist took the train back to Harbin. This was only the beginning of persecution. Deprivedof the authority to send telegrams, even after censure ;deprived of newspapers, for thepost did not deliver a single one;deprived of letters,—for a fort-night the post had practicallysuspended operations ; deprivedof all news, for the local journalscould only publish official news,a few correspondents still re-mained there in an ignorancewhich was unbearable. In theheart of Manchuria it wras, att
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