The recent wires. from London noted a tendency toward reaction in British public opinion with reference to the battle of Liaoyang, and a disposition to award the chief credit to General Kuroparkin for his feating bringing off his arm: nto safety. While such a conclusion no means justified by the facts, it ives an object lesson to a certain section Japanese military officers, who are lesoribed by Mr. Bennet Burleigh as Simultaneously with the reported change of British public sentiment, japanese securities in London have won steadily falling, and the so-called naltroatmont: of foreign war correspon-lents by Japanese officers has proved ery expensive. It not altogether surprising that the leading Japanese cumals are urging the authorities to consider the circumstances and to be acre broadminded in treating respectble foreign journalists. Some sections f Japanese officers consider that they re alone engaged in the war, but every apanese is prepared to fight out the; struggle. There is a war outside the war y arms, It is to be noticed in this! aepoct that the highest circles in Tokio} re now fully alive to the situation ud have expressed the deepest egret that their subordinates were not careful enough to receive the foreign! surnalists. They are now taking some ritable means for that purpose. stubborn Facts.
'At the same time, some misrepresentaons contained in uncensored telegrams, say be rectified. Taking for instance the: slegram, dated the 7th inst., from Shanaikuan of the "Times" correspondent' ith the Left Army, his first error is made. 1 to the estimates of the belligerent length, he insisting that the Japanese ere superior to the Russians in the, num-ar of their troops and guns. For his cond mistake, the "Times" corres-latest trouble invites a statement to the effect that a correspondent having been lowed to accompany an army and wine all its operations on condition of submitting to its regulations as to censorate, fails to comply with the dictates of honour when, at the most critical moment of a campaign, ho leaves" the army for the purpose of eluding the censorate.
Your contemporary conclud that there is some blame to be laid at the door of the Ja} se themselves, but the moral responsibility of the correspondents romains undeniable.
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