The Savannah morning news., 1900-09-25


great friend who is going 10 assist him
60 keep the Bears claws OF hts we'll
earned Korea. lie is unit In an things
and be goes into action a. the double
quick with the mechanical regularity OF
the bobhing of the forks OF hay ted
der.
Searching for the Dead.
As I came along the road leading from
the gate Of che mud wall (which surrounds
both the Concession ana the ns;ivc city,
20 tho South Gate 81 the native city.
where bullets were singing with the per-
slstency OF locusts yesterday, | remarked
Go myself that this was the FIRE time Ia
two weeks when I could not hear the
sound Of firing. Parties Of japanese do
tailed 10 search for dead in the marshes
had a dozen bodies already gathered on
boats which they were padding along the
canal beside tho road Those who fell on
the road or where they had sought cover
behind the mud houses had been carried
OF tho night before
The japanese killed must run an TO six
"a or seventy. the wounded 90 S0o. II he
could not blow up the South Gaze. as ne
had planned. the Japanese General. never
thclcss. never thought Of going back. Hts
maen.icens little soldiers endured the con-
tinuous fire OF ten hours without fiinching
and had their reward when the Chinese.
who dd not consider that we AZ well us
they might have losses. ran away and left
az 60 enter she city unnpHosed.
In the marshes on the righa of the road
American details were engaged in the same
sad work az the japanese details The
rifles and the knapsacks Of the cold forms
in blue and khaki which had been found
were being carried OF in -rickshaws while
tho dead themselves were sent on htters.
Two OF the fallen were shot through the
head as they were firing from cover. One
was lying with both hands grasping his
rifle IN the attitude OF aiming his head
upon his hands The rifles which went In
40 the night so clean and bright yesterday
were thick with rust from the salt wa'"r
and their barrels filled with slime. The
dead themselves were as muddy NJ n they
had been dragged through dozen pud-
dies. for they charged through mud and
they lay in mud for cover.
1t was some satisfaction TO look from the
scene Of Col Lsscum's death toward the
walls and see that che nag which he held
in his hand as he fell wns now floating
over the south Gate-bearing the price la
bel Of victory-at half-mast out OF respect
10 his memory.
THAT south Gate Is as badly battered as
the wounded Of the Ninth. The entrance
10 A. was choked with the goings and COM
ings OF the soldiers OF four nations. Tho
ammunition train OF the Japs was just re-
turning a. entered WITH n was mixed
FAR more picturesque elements. A British
oncor sweaty and dirty, passed me with
a morning smile OF victory from tired
face.
"Tien Tsln Is a great fur market" he
said.
tie had three 'rickshaws and seven or
eight coolies loaded down with sable, seal
hot Fnh
better adjoining an English woman than
feeding the flames After him came an
American marine ard q Welsh fusllier-
ever bosom friends-astride two little don
kevs. with harnesses gay enough for
nandarin's stables. then some captured
Chimes soldiers with their pigtails tied
together; the japanese general Fukn-
shima. very proud. very erect TWO or
three saunterinE japanese officers ana
engineers European clerk with more
silks than he could carry; Chinese sur
prised to hud themselves alive alternate
IS "kotowing' and crowding.
An ImPreEnRbIc wall.
When the continuous Smelling OF the Eu-
Korean concession by the Chinese guns In
nosltiop in the native city forced as. re-
eariloss OF property rights. TO reply in
kind. we would see through our asses the
British lyadltes ana twelve-pounders
knocking up columns Of dust from the
pasoda. Yesterday morning. as ] have
told YOU. the lyddltes as well as the y
FOUNDERS. the little feld guns Of the Japs.
The big field guns OF the British sikhs ana
thu American marines al hammered away
I'm their ammunition was gone. Ana yet
with an that pounding the walls of that
gade are still standing. Its interior was set
on frc. making ~ too hot for us 10 en-
tor. 100 hot for the Chinese 20 remain.
its ton walls have been battered into dust
and fragments. but below the level on
the main wall the stone and brick struc-
,ure is sim as solid as the arch OF a Ro-
man bridge.
what IS called The South Gate Is really
the south Gates. You enter one side OF
40 square Interior area OF the pagoda
ana pass out of the other. 80 that a force
rettinr through the first gate would be
ip a trsp until they got through the sec
ona aud each Of these narrow archWays
A. twenty feet or masonry Standins
against the wall Of one were dozen or
tbc rilded standards OF the Chinese troops
ana Boxers and as many ginGals.
And The great wall itself2 l was sur
priscd al how little damage our shells
h,d dome to H. Field guns against iis
masonry were az popguns. The facing b.
two and "A half 20 three feet OF masonry
BACK OF that o. thirty feet Of earth. which
IA the best stopper" Of modern IRE OF
an kinds. with the exception OF sand
THE facing rises above the earth more
than the hight OF q mans head. In this
were loophoiea with most fortunate
angle Tor defense against troops on the
nlaln. behind which the Chinese rinemen
stood firing az the soldiers Of the Powors
II /, lyddlp she'll hit the parapet @ burst
ehroueh. but so far AZ ! could Judge the
tU,clve-nounders did not. Those experts
who thought that the British navy had
been sold" when q bought lyddte were
ae sadly mistaken as any man whoever
beeot "A theory or wrote a magazine arsi-
Gle Deliver me from shell-hrc! But. q
ord above all. deliver me from lyddite
sheil-hre!
Havoc of Byddite shells.
wherever Iyette shell bursts you may
look Tor dead within range % twenty
wards Il Killed the Chinese soldiers AMI
rolled them over by conclusion down the /
ruts worn By the water OF rainfalls 20 the |
street where they lay IN n pile even %
the debris from runway on a mountains |
side II the shell carried over the wall
into the toWn-uow we know why Admiral
seymour hesitated 80 long 70 throw shells |
irso Tien THin. though We we're suffering /
shefl-nre in the Concession while the vice. |
row was handy conducting business ~ |
his Yaman IN the native city IS usual |
and burst ia a mud-houses you found inc