The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-15
GoDKIN AND THE CRIMEAN WAR.
The Appreciation That it Gave Him of
the Horrors Of War.

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.ioiis Which, as mas peen mei saiu
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was hiaoe ny Vi IVY suo-aues tioii0
what was 70 pecoliie oi .ne ureehs' anu
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ureehs were the ohiy Shr,s.iaiis ol ina
part ol the Worlu VINO nav pesun 70 a.
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ques'io'ls tiie iiaiiah ques'io', 'iie "
ISL question anu the hungarian ques-
.ioN' out EUROPE was iafsls Wlousii' up
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eastern question was excited as wen
as mp eiuers' l Wrote letler 10 tle
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'nat ne couio not 'il'ih Vi ahy,flrs 70
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enough 10 say out IL was not relevant
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~ urhey lor tfe Dally news IL war
piohe 'ut' IL was oeclareo& " leW uays
la'er' ana went TO the Danube where
saw the outbreak OIL hostiiltles. ala
not go 10 'he Criiiea uilii the WINTER OF
lsof' 1 passed couple OF months at
Eupatorla ABOUT lorty miles north Oh
oepastopol' Whch was assaulted by
s'ronS RUSSIAN coiulnn Whlle L was
thefe' a rev lndlan oif1cers, nome on
ieaVe' ana myself We're the only Giaours
present, ana the lnuldn SllcerS We're
strongly or the OPINION that, II the
place were carried. the Fugitive TURKS
would massacre us out OF sheer vexa~
ton. The assault was made, but
1alled' Inc column advanced through
a Mussulman graveyard, under heavy
nre OF artillery When the affair was
over, l rode over their line of march and
came upon the most horrible spectacle
imaginable. The shot had broken the
tombstones into small pieces, and
through them had inflicted the ghast-
lest wounds and decorations on the
men who had fallen. l had been over
two other battefields on the Danube,
but they were nothing like this, though
covering a wider area.
There was an English ship lying in
the harbor whose fire, thrown across
the town without the possibility of aim
ing, considerably annoyed the Russians, |
and forced their cavalry to retire out of /
range. We watched the practice with
and admired it's excellence.
that the gunners could see
nothing. This led 20 years later to a