FOLLOWING THE SUN-FLAG
Copyright, 1905, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published April, 1905
TROW DIRECTORY
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY
NEW YORK
To
"THE MEN OF MANY WARS"
WITH CONGRATULATIONS TO
THOSE ON WHOM FELL
THROUGH CHANCE OR PERSONAL EFFORT
A BETTER FORTUNE THAN WAS MINE
CONTENTS
- The Trail of the Saxon 1
- Hardships of the Campaign 18
- Lingering in Tokio 50
- Making for Manchuria 74
- On the War-Dragon's Trail 102
- The White Slaves of Haicheng 128
- The Backward Trail of the Saxon 160
INTRODUCTION
After a long still-hunt in Tokio, and along pursuit through Manchuria, followingthat Sun-Flag of Japan, I gave up the chaseat Liao-Yang.
Not being a military expert, my purpose wassimply to see under that flag the brown little"gun-man"—as he calls himself in his owntongue—in camp and on the march, in trenchand in open field, in assault and in retreat;to tell tales of his heroism, chivalry, devotion,sacrifice, incomparable patriotism; to seehim fighting, wounded—and, since such thingsin war must be—dying, dead. After sevenmonths my spoils of war were post-mortembattle-fields, wounded convalescents in hospitals,deserted trenches, a few graves, and oneRussian prisoner in a red shirt.
Upon that unimportant personal disaster I[pg x]can look back now with no little amusement;and were I to re-write these articles, I shoulddoubtless temper both word and spirit hereand there; but as my feeling at the time wassincere, natural, and justified, as there is, Ibelieve, no over-statement of the facts thatcaused it, and as the articles were written withoutmalice or the least desire to "get even"—Ilet them go, as written, into book form now.
No more enthusiastic pro-Japanese than Iever touched foot on the shores of the littleisland, and no Japanese, however much hemight, if only for that reason, value my goodopinion, can regret more than I any changethat took place within me when I came face toface with a land and a people I had longedsince chi