cabled home offering his services at h price. On his offer being declined with thanks he offered them for nothing—but they had had enough of him! One of the correspondents on board did not consider that the Russians would ever succeed in regaining the ground they had lost in Manchuria, as each position was being fortified by the Japanese as soon as taken.
At first we were unable to account for the simultaneous departure of so many war correspondents, at this particular time, from tke scene of operations, and when, on arrival st Victorias and Van-conver, news kept coming in that a sanguinary battle, far greater and more important than the battle of Lisoyang, was in full swing, the feelings of some of them can be imagined. From what.we were able to gather, they had {left under the firm conviction that all important operations for the season had terminated! Besides, the regulations of "the Japanese Government provided that if any war correspondent left the front, that correspondent alone could represent his paper again with the particular army to which he had been attached, and then only after the lapse of a period of three months from the time of leaving!
The correspondents, believing that they could be better employed in the interests of their respective papers, left the front, with the exception of the correspondent for the London " Standard," who is now HAVING EVERYTHING TO HIMSBLY, at a fearful expense to his paper, it is true, but then under the system by which the London "Standard" is re-selling its war news to other papers, they will do well over it from every point of Meanwhile, all the others are racing home to get in thei of the battle of Liaoyang! According to Captain Thacker, the Canadian officer, who was commissioned to follow the movements of the Russo-Japanese campaign, the new Shimose powder, used in nese Army, is two degrees more than dynamite; while guncotton, on which lyddite and other high explosives are based, comes directly below the Japanese compound. Its cost of manufacture is one-half that of gun-cotton, and, unlike ordinary explosives, which explode after they. have pierced an iron plate, with Shimose powder, the piercing and the detonation are practically simultaneous, causing the fragments to be numberless, from two to three thousand being scattered in all directions, and which means the most fearful carnage when the explosion occurs on a ship's deck.
On the Varyag a Russian bluejacket was wounded in no less than one hundred places by the explosion of x Shimose shell during the engagement at Chemulpo, while many deaths occurred from the mere blast, where no wounds were shown at all.
How these very important and startling details wore obtained, it would be interesting to know.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.