Wolf: The Lives of Jack London by Coffin James L. Haley

Author:Coffin, James L. Haley [Coffin, James L. Haley]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780465021673
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Published: 2010-04-12T16:00:00+00:00

London’s disgust with the whole venture had not eased by the time he determined to quit the enterprise. He filed a final sarcastic dispatch on June 2, JAPANESE OFFICERS CONSIDER EVERYTHING A MILITARY SECRET, in which he actually quoted from the correspondents’ operating instructions: “For the present and until further notice the transmission of any dispatches . . . where wireless telegraphy is employed is forbidden. . . . From to-day and until further notice it is forbidden to take photographs or make sketches. . . . The necessary steps are being taken to see that this order is obeyed. It may be found necessary to enforce a still stricter censorship than that already existing.” All the reporters in the camp, English, French, and American, signed a joint cable to all their papers protesting the impossibility of their situation and declaring their further attempts to cover the war futile. The Japanese censors, “by their usual Asiatic indirection,” wrote London, “which involved the subtlest dialectics and discussion of things metaphysical, and concerning all things under the sun except the point at issue,” made the telegram disappear.24

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