Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1904 — Hector Fuller Is Sore on the Japs. [ARTICLE]

Hector Fuller Is Sore on the Japs.

Hector A. Fuller, of Indianapolis, who went to Japan as a war correspondent for the Indianapolis News, has arrived home and is dead sore on the Japs. He prophecies that they will eventually be lioked by Russia, and evidently hopes that th9y will. He, like alt other correspondents, was slim-slammed by the Japs, and prevented from accompanying their armies to the front, and that no d}ubt has made him sore. But a large part of the wonderful success of the Japs has been owing to the c omplete secresy with whioh they hide all their movements, so hat whole army divisione are wholly lost to the knowledge of the Russians for days or weeks at a time, until they suddenly bob up, perhaps a hundred milfes from where they were supposed to be and deal the surprised Russians a knookout b!ow under the fifth rib. In the same way, the Russians never know just where the Jap fleets are, nor how many nor what kind of boats they are oomposed of. Had the correspondents been permitted at the front and with the fleets, none of this seoresy would have been possible. Fuller achieved one remarkable feat whioh hae made him famous, and that was slipping into Fort Arthur in spite of all Japs or Russians could do to keep him out.