Theatre Royal.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 780, 24 March 1905, Page 2

Theatre Royal.

CAPTAIN SCOTT HARDEX'S PIC TOUIAL ENTERTAINMENTS.

Captain Scott Harden will give t\ pictorial entertainment this owning at the Theatre Royal. At Sydney, before a crowded and fasMonnblo audience at the Centenary-hall. Captain Scott Harden, F.R.t'.S., de- | voted two hours to depicting the leading episodes of the great war in the East. Captain Harden acted ns the special correspondent for the Ixindon Daily Chronicle and Daily t!ru[ihic, ami adopted many dc\iies to get close to fighting centres. From data gathered from various sources, he is in a position to produce a nar- i rative of the salient events which have led up to the surrender of Port Arthur, and his account is palpably free from exaggeration. He has a pleasant, unassuming manner. lie has a thrilling narrative of personal experience to folate, and inckh-nts of peculiar interest well cinbuddled in his mind, to draw upon. He speaks of Port Arthur, where he lived and worked before uiul during the seise. The Ifcjlcaguered town, its harbor,its marvellous fortifications, its battered buildings, its inhabitants with their good and bad traits, in fact, everything about Port Arthur that Is of" interest to an ordinary mortal, he has menially noted, The corruption rife among the Russian soldiery, high and low, and their groundless contempt for the " little brown men" have, of course, been noted by Captain Scott-Harden. The Japanese he regards us the finest soldiers on earth.