Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1904-09-13
BATTLE RELATED
BY BURLEIGH
Correspondent Graphically Describes
Lao Yang Fighting.
PRAISE FOR THE JAPS
He Says That While the Mikado's
Soldiers Are Fierce Warriors,
Yet They Are Cool and
Obey Orders.

London, Sept. 13.-Bennett Burleigh
sends to the Daily Telegraph from the
Japanese headquarters a long descrip-
ton OF the fighting around Lao Yang.
He says:
Gen Kuroki was hotly attacked by
Kuropatkin and was for a time in
jeopardy and unable to get astride the
railway. otherwise Lao Yang would
have been a Sedan for the Russians.
What surprised me more than any
thing else was the wonderful manner
in which the Japanese continued for a
whole week their awful bombardment
of Russian positions. It was the fierc-
est artillery attack, perhaps. in his
tory.
Tens of thousands OF shells were
thrown daily. but the supplies seemed
inexhaustible. The Russians only re-
Piled spasmodically but their rifle fire
was often the heaviest.
II must be said for the Japanese that
although they fight with the utmost
fierceness, daring and courage. they
battle not like mad men, but with
their heads. and they obey the officers
In all straits"
Mr.. Burleigh testified, as other cor
respondents have done. that the Japan
csc are continually drafting fresh men
into the fighting ranks. and remarks
how lnarvelously they took fortifica-
lions when capture appeared to be i'm
possible. He asserts that II was Ku-
rokfs dangerous position that compell-
ed the other Japanese armies to force
the fighting. and says that It was part
ly the shell fire and partly. also. Rus
sian incendiarism that produced the
conflagration In the Russian quarter
of Lao Yang, the incendiarism prob
ably being the act of drunken soldiers.
The Muscovites presented a most de-
jected appearance in the retreat, con-
tinues Mr.. Burleigh.
THE men are of good material but
the officers lack many necessary quail
tiles. The war is most unpopular with
the Russian soldiers. With Japanese II
s just the reverse. / learn that the
Russians have heavily fortified their
lines uron the river and towns forty
miles north of Mukden. where they in
tend to make a desperate stand. I'm
doubtedly the Japanese intend to take
Mukden, probably within three weeks.
They already are half way through the
mountains with a temporary narrow
gauge railway. --
"The dread Cossack cavalry Is q
myth which the Japanese infantry de-
spises The Russians made absolutely
no use of their masses of horsemen."
"Kuroh had to Withstand a fierce
assault by half the Russian troops"
says the correspondent. and for two
days II was nip and tuck to keep his
ground.
'In truth. matters were serious all
around and only Oku's magnificent as
saults saved the situation and prevent
ed Kurokl from having to make ret
rograde movement. And more lies be-
hind this II was not the headquar-
tiers staff whose operations appear slow.
particularly in pursuits. but the wonder
full soldiers and young officers of ia
pan. who freely drenched plain and
hills with their fellows blood. Many
fear that the losses on both sides are
10000"
The Daily Telegraph's correspondent,
n. Simpson. who was with the Rus
SLAMS at Lao Yang. says that he was
captured by japanese.