A Disappointed War Correspondent.

Feilding Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 27, 23 July 1904, Page 2

A Disappointed War Correspondent.

His Yiewa Concerning Port Arthur. Received July 28, 8.57 a.m. Brisbane, This Day. A gentleman who went to Japan, intending to act as a war correspondent, but who was blocked from going to the front, has returned. He states it was expected in Japan that Port Arthur would fall on July 10th, and the fact that it has not yet fallen created a great surprise. Many people had special suits made to take part in a procession arranged to celebrate the Japanese success. He thought the fighting at Kinchow must have been more severe than the Japanese reported. He. believed that one reason why the final assault had not yet been made was that the higher classes realised that unless\they succeeded in pushing the* Russians out this year, their difficulties would be greater, as their finances would not be equal to the strain. Speaking of the recent sinking of the transports by the Vladivostock fleet, he said a mob of enraged Japs surrounded Admiral , Eamimara's house, which they stoned with great vigor, declaring he was responsible for the disaster. When the trans ports were sunk two steamers weresent as a reserve, but in the hurry to get out they collided. One foundered, and the other returned in a damaged condition.