The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-11
The Bravery of Captain
Leonard.
PRIDE OF MARINE CORPS
Youthful American who Risked Life
For Priya.e's Safety in
China.

~ ATTAIN HARRY LEONARD, the
brave officer who carried off
wounded brother officer from the
bloody battlefield near Tien-Tsin when
Admiral Seymour's force was relieved.
bullet in his left arm and was carried
across broken field 1890 yards wide by
his faithful comrade, Sergeant j. NJ.
Adams. is passenger on the City of Pc
king en- route to Mare Island Hospital.
San Francisco, whence he will later
leave to report at Washington.
The officer lost his left arm i'm that
annihilate the brave Americans who
we're exposed to a CALLING fire from thou
sands of rifles and machine guns in the
hands of the cunning Chinese troops. Aft
or being wounded he lay exposed to the
fierce rays of an Asiatic sun which beat
down upon him until the agony almost
cost him his life. From the ragged
wound which was torn i'm his upper arm
the blood flowed in a steady stream,
weakening and sickening him until every
vestige of strength which once existed in
his stalwart frame had disappeared. When
struck by the enemy's bullet he reeled
and fell almost into the arms of Sergeant
Adams. With the three portions of a
Krag Jorgenson rifle the enlisted man
made a splint. With the use of first
aid to the wounded" bandage tourniquet
made which prevented the officer 8
life-blood ebbing out and leaving him dead
on the field.
THE TERRIBLE ORDEAL.
Across that 1900 yards of open field,
broken at short intervals by irrigation
bitches which were filled with Shiny
liquid. the Chinese troops numbering
thousands poured CALLING fire which car
RED death and destruction. No man dar-
ed to venture upon il lest a score of bull
lets riddle him. When the commander OF
the American troops called for volunteers
10 take the wounded officer to the rear
there was a hesitancy among those brave
men who bad fought for days against ov-
empowering numbers.
/ Sergeant Adams and Corporal AdriGnct
proffered their services. Then commenc-
ed the most terrible experience in tht
lives Of the three men. To use the words
| of Sergeant Adams, who occasionally in
/ terjected remarks for the Captain in al
| interview accorded yesterday to an Ad
vertiser representative. 1T was an awful
fire. Hell itself seemed to have opened
it's fury on that field. To get to safet!
there was no other way than to eros
mat 1el0. We n1ted captain Leonard
he was Lieutenant then-and made.
rrsh of a few yards and then lay dow
in a Shiny ditch. The moment we showe'
ourselves the earth of the field rip
pee up all around us by hundreds of bull
lets. We caught our BREATH raised tn
officer and made another dash. 1t wa
short. Down we went again as a muir
derous fire was sent in on us. What
terrible experience il was when we ex
lpcsed ourselves. 1t was like a thousan
hunters after a rabbit. Waiting for 1t t
jump from hillock to hllock. Thank God
not a bullet struck us or Captain Leon
lard. 1t was miraculous. 1t seems incred
ihle to me at this time that we coul
have gone through it all and lived.
I'VE were covered with slime from hea
&c foot. The mud chung to our legs unit
they looked like those of an elephant
The sun beat down upon us so fiercel
that I thought my brain would sizZle
Ard that water, nasty and Shiny as
was. was to us like nectar. We drank
and the parched lips of the officer whoi
we were carrying TO safety We moistene
with IL. A bullet knocked the ornameT
off my hat. Another struck my cartridg
belt. At last we found that we had BET
ter remove our blue shirts, as they prove
20 be a strong mark against the field
alkali After that the bullets went higl
Finally we came to the famous mud wal
Up we went on the side which receive
the plunk PUNK OF thousands of bu
lets. and dropped over on the other sid
safe,
TWO BRAVE MEN.