The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-09-08
WIRED HIS PAPER
WHILE BLEEDING
SHOT THROUGH THE LUNGS AT
LAO YANG BUT WAS
DEAD GAME.
STORY OF SOLDIER LIFE UNDER FIRE
After Being Wounded He Rode Five
Miles to File the Message'-
A Pen Picture Of the
Wars Horrors.

Mukdcn, Sept. G.-Thc Following mes
sogc describing the earlier events III
the japanese attack On Gen. Slakel'
borps corps southwest of Lao yang
Aupust 30. was written on the battle
field by N. Krilon, one of the AS
suciatcd Press correspondents and
sent to Mukdcn for transmission Just
before the correspondent was shot
in the lungs.
This morning around Lao Yang
guns Numbered increasingly. The
Heights forming semicirclc around
Inc city were dotted with jets of
flame and little black and white
clouds. The scctaclC was clearly ylsl'
bic from the water tower of Lao
Yang. The Russian left alone was
not engaged. At Z Il. III. the cores
pondcnt rode to the Russian center
where the Japanese were concentrate
Ing in an attempt to break through
and climbed the neighESring heights
following a detachment 10 relieve the
slilrmshers who had been covering
the battery commanded by Pokotilol,
one of the hcros of Kiulencheng.
The japanese, according to CUSTOM
were Smelling places where they be-
liCyCd the Russian reserves were To-
C2tCd. Before the correspondent
could reach the battery, he had TO
cross Il danger zone OF one hundred
ANA fifty yards, projcctilcs railing
and bursting on it until the very
ground seemed to culver with wrath,
/ There was Il touching scene when the
skirmishcrs were reached. 4
| A Russian soldier met brother
whom he had last seen in their ma
tive village. There were joyous
greetings and Il quick exchange OF
news from home. Then each went
lis way AMI settled down to the work
of fighting. The Japanese fire was
spasmodic. Their bullets sang like
BIRDS as they sped overhead and the
Russians cracked jokes about it.
TWO hours later. the correspondent
reached the battery and found that
pOkutiloGf and another officer, Cost
rolf. had been killed or wounded
Captain Tcarof was in charge of tn,
battery. His quiet courtesy recalled
the hero of one of Count TOlstio's
novels. Fifty yards away was a
splendid looking gunner whose duty
lii was to record the success or failure
ct each shot. The grim song of dcall
with deadly messengers was al
around him, but the Russian gunner
stood erect and utterly failed to hcet
the danger to which he was exposed
The kuSSian officers had not eater
l2uNhirg since the previous day ant
"a correspondent shared with then
Whatever he had The taste OF foot
caused them to realize the intensity
Iuf their hunger. Prudence urged the
Correspondent to leave the spot bu
h. was faCinatCd--
Here the message ended.
The officer who sent forward NJ
KiriloT's Correct last dcspatcl
added: IN. Kirilon, who wa'
ian enthusiast in his work was
shot through the right lung while
standing by our battery and fell bacI
Is. Herring intense agony, the bloo'
squirting from his mouth. Yet his dc
vatiOn to duty enabled him to over
como his sullcrimgS. He insisted ol
be ," placed ON II horse SO that he
could get to Lao Yang and file hi
despatch. It took him five hours I,
cover the distance to Lao Yang
When tie reached there, NJ. kiriloI
was so exhausted and weak from los
'ui blood that we got him into M
hospital although against his protest
He asked me to complete his dCS
patch for him | am soldier and N
WRITER hut | will say alter an awful
iichJ today we are still holding on
positions. Japanese bodies hcstrcv
81 the heights. Their LOSSES mus
have run into the tens or thousands
I'VE have lost 5000 thus far \ Shral
irnI sHull hurst two PAGES from Gen
Stakclbvrg. who remained for q
,'ura under fire. killing two officers
The general was slightly wounded il
The leg