Our Experience Had Taught Us That
When The Japanese Promised Us We Would Be Allowed To Do Something We
Wanted To Do, They Did Not Keep Their Promise; But That When They
Said We Would Not Be Allowed To Do Something We Wanted To Do, They
Spoke The Truth.
Consequently, when General Oku declared the
correspondents would be held four miles in the rear, we believed he
would keep his word.
And, as we now know, he did, the only men who
saw the fighting that later ensued being those who disobeyed his
orders and escaped from their keepers. Those who had been ordered by
their papers to strictly obey the regulations of the Japanese, and
the military attaches, were kept by Oku nearly six miles in the rear.
On the receipt of Oku's answer to the correspondents, Mr. John Fox,
Jr., of Scribner's Magazine, Mr. Milton Prior, of the London
Illustrated News, Mr. George Lynch, of the London Morning Chronicle,
and myself left the army. We were very sorry to go. Apart from the
fact that we had not been allowed to see anything of the military
operations, we were enjoying ourselves immensely. Personally, I
never went on a campaign in a more delightful country nor with better
companions than the men acting as correspondents with the Second
Army. For the sake of such good company, and to see more of
Manchuria, I personally wanted to keep on. But I was not being paid
to go camping with a set of good fellows.
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