Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-11-07

, brave enough. are careless of their COM
rades lives and imbued with the usual
oriental Indifference to suffering. But the
records of the Japanese army and navy
TEEN with numberless deeds of devotion
and sef-sacrifice which prove the contrary.
AT the bloody battle OF TAPPING Shan
dying officer emulated Sir Philip Sidney by
giving his water bottle to wounded SOL
der, although h: was parched with thirst
himself. He needs it more than do he
said, almost in Sidney'S words.
Consider, too the heroic self-sacrifce of
a private soldier named Orihara Tamekchi.
His battalion had fought all day, and then
marched over rough, snow:covered country
until midnight. When at last they bivou-
acked for the night. it was found that
wounded soldier had fallen out of column
and been left behind to perish in the snow.
! Orihara was himself wounded and tired
out, but he volunteered to go back and look
for his cOmrade.
He found the man lying senseless in the
snow a mile away. He lifted him on his
back and staggered toward the camp, but
missed his way in a binding snow storm
and wandered about for over four hours pc
fore he found his comrades, and fell faint
ing with his burden before the camp fire.
Both men recovered. and are today serving
in the Japanese army.
A Baby in Battle.
Perhaps the strangest incident of the
Chino-Japanese war was the appearance of
the famous Wei-hai-wei baby. 1t is dis
cussed to this day in every Japanese bar
racks, and the story is told to the tourist
who foregathers with the soldiers.
During lull in the land attack on one of
the forts. Chinese woman suddenly made
her appearance in the firing line of the 9th
Division, apparently coming from nowhere.
She was hurredly ordered to the rear and
disappeared. A few minutes afterward, a
lusty baby boy was found lying on the
ground beside gun.
"A Hinnchi SeiZa burO who iS a ia
lily man. picked up the baby and nursed 1t
with experienced care. The bugle rang out
for the advance of a storning party on the
fort. The captain tried to hand his tiny
captive over to a Chinese prisoner but the
youngster yelled if he would go into con-
WILSON'S. He did not want to leave his
friend. the enemy.
The bugle rang out again. and, with the
baby in one arm and his sword in the other
hand, the gallant captain led the charge
and captured the fort The baby nestled to
his breast untroubled by the of battle.
and passed safely through the fight. After
it was over. a home was found for him in a
Chinese village.
Put an Army to Flight.
At Hwangchiatai five Japs. led by SER
geant named Kadoda. routed a Chinese
army They were sent out by their general
to reconnoitre the enemy's right wing and
rear After getting the desired information,
Kadoda thought he would do something
his own account so he worked around to
the left flank and boldly led his men in a
charge right into the enemy's lines. They
vel ed so loudly and seemed to appear in so
many places at once that the Chinese
thought it was a general attack, and the
entire army fled in confusion.
A rem arkable trait of the mikados sol
diers is their indifference to wounds 1t
takes great deal to make them stop fight
ing. At the battle of Kaiping japanese
private was shot through the head. "One
should not stop for a wound!' he cried, and
plunged into the thick of the fight, after
making a rough bandage. The bandage
slipped and in a moment he was deluged
in blood from head to foot. Yet he ragged
among the Chinese like a baresark Viking
of old-a spectacle so awe-inSpiring that the
enemy soon broke and fed. Then, and not
till then he allowed himself to be taken to
the fed hospital.
Like Spartan Women.
The women of Japan are like the Spar
tan heroines-they tell their husbands and
sons to come back from war with their
shields or on them Many stories are
told In relation to the Chino-Japanese war,
of the heroism of the women who were
loft behind when the men sailed away from
the island kingdom to fight the mikado's
battles in Corea and Manchuria.
When the 18th Infantry was marching
through little village on its way to en-
bark for the front Japanese woman