FOLLOWING THE SUN-FLAG FOLLOWING THE SUN-FLAG A VAIN PURSUIT THROUGH MANCHURIA BY JOHN FOX, JR. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905 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 PAGE I. THE TRAIL OF THE SAXON 1 II. HARDSHIPS OF THE CAMPAIGN 18 III. LINGERING IN TOKIO 50 IV. MAKING FOR MANCHURIA 74 V. ON THE WAR-DRAGON'S TRAIL 102 VI. THE WHITE SLAVES OF HAICHENG 128 VII. THE BACKWARD TRAIL OF THE SAXON 160 INTRODUCTION After a long still-hunt in Tokio, and a long pursuit through Manchuria, following that Sun-Flag of Japan, I gave up the chase at Liao-Yang. Not being a military expert, my purpose was simply to see under that flag the brown little "gun-man"--as he calls himself in his own tongue--in camp and on the march, in trench and in open field, in assault and in retreat; to tell tales of his heroism, chivalry, devotion, sacrifice, incomparable patriotism; to see him fighting, wounded--and, since such things in war must be--dying, dead. After seven months my spoils of war were post-mortem battle-fields, wounded convalescents in hospitals, deserted trenches, a few graves, and one Russian prisoner in a red shirt. Upon that unimportant personal disaster I can look back now with no little amusement; and were I to re-write these articles, I should doubtless temper both word and spirit here and there; but as my feeling at the time was sincere, natural, and justified, as there is, I believe, no over-statement of the facts that caused it, and as the articles were written without malice or the least desire to "get even"--I let them go, as written, into book form now.