A WOMAN CORRESPONDENT

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2241, 29 August 1914, Page 2

A WOMAN CORRESPONDENT

THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAE. the Pioneer Club last evening, Dr. Von Danneyille recounted to" a vory, large gathering of members and friends some of her experiences as a'war correspondent during tbo' ltusso-Japaneso War. Dr. Von Danneville, who was" welcomed and introduced to her. audience by the president, Mrs. A. E., Atkinson, said that, she had been madeacquainted with war at an early age— she was not more than twelve when the Franco-Prussian War broke put. Much that was; descriptive and illustrative of its horrors was told, and then Dr. Von Dajmeville passed' on to the war in' which she liad passed,'through such stirring experiences. Of tho courteous and humanitarian lyay in. which the Japanese treated their Russian prisoners Dr. Von Daniieville gave striking instances. They fed them well, housed them as ,well as they could, treated them courteously in every way, and when .they died sent their medals, their decorations, and their personal effects ;back to the Rus-. 'man headquartere >so that they, might be identified. Some of the Russian prisoners told Dr. Von Danneville that they were glad to-be. captured, for to return to Russia was to- return to. the then hopeless,' crushing, corruption against which it was impossible tonght. It enveloped, smothered all Eussia, and how it was to 'be ended and when, Heaven only know. "Many.told hor that it .was only when captured that they had had.a-decent meal. Six days a ireok' the Russian soldier dined on cabbage, and had dry bread for breakfast, with butter' that was like tallow for tea. And for the cavalry man it was just tho sanio save that ho might once s week havo meat that had toT)e hammered to make it .possible to be eaten. That they could fight as they did spoke volumes for the Russian's innate bravery and tenacity. ■■■ . • Dr. Von Danneville was on a dispatch boat in the vicinity of of Tsushima, she_ and the other ' war , correspondents being locked up in the conning tower while the battle was on. In twenty minutes three Russian warships were sunkj and ;as all the world' knows'.the battle, was finally won by the Japanese Navy, and the name of Rozhestvenski has gone down.the roll of history as having lost his country an unforgettable number of lives. When all was over, the captain of the dispatch boat and the officers came in.to them, mid a man.with a tray of champagne glasses followed. "Before we do anything," said the captain, "we will first honour those'who have fallen on-either side for their country," and.it was done with striking dignity. I ■ -—- "'