The Hawaiian gazette., 1904-10-07

AZ this itms Wallace Joined the Fifth
regiment w iitA 10 take part In the
charge IN Btushy liill. the central bill
~ the chain The entertainments ~ the
top of hi. hill were filled wi,h the
flower IT the Russian army, the troops
fresh from European Russia, including
the crack 1hifty.hiih regiment For
hours the Japanese lines. elbow to ell
bow. advanced up the hill in short
rushcs. The hillside was swept with
shot and she'll and men were falling all
around. Mr.. Wallace says that three or
four fell within reach Of him during
the first ten minutes OF the fighting
When within abou, three hundred yards
Of the trenches the Fifth and Sixth
regiments charged and drove the Rus
slams out OF their trenches. Inside OF
two hours the trenches were recaptured
At this Juncture over one hundred
Russian guns opened fre on the Jap
anese on Wedge Hi from Round Top
and other batteries from two other d.
rections. The carnage resulting was
terrible, over 1900 men falling In less
than half an hour. The general as
sault made along the Japanese line was
a failure that day and the Japanese
were forced to retire. The men did so
reluctantly, fighting with stubborn
ness and desperation never before
equaled in modern times. Often the
bugle had to sound the retreat several
times before the men would go back.
That night the soldiers, utterly ex-
hausted. slept amid a storm of grape
shot. Thousands of shells were thrown
into little valley. not more than forty
acres in extent, while the thunder of
ing-the greatest play of artillery since
Sedan and considered by many who
saw that battle to have been greater.
The correspondents helped bind up
the wounded in a field hospital and
went to the front again the next day.
On the 31st the Russians were driven
out of the first line of entertainments
and for three days they held the second
line hut were finally forced to retreat.
Mr.. Wallace has a large number of
drawings made in the field and col
lection of photographs made on the fir
s,.,r ,;ol, xAJ,a al ID
among war pictures. Beside those
showing the Japanese charging and fir
ing there are several showing the Jap
anese burning the bodies of their killed.
They always bury the Russian dead.
There are also pictures of the entan-
clements formed of five rows of posts
having barb wire stretched in every
direction. Between the posts, as close
as they can be dug are pits. seven feet
deep and four feet wide at the top in
which are sharp stakes two feet long.
Numbers of men We're seen impaled on
these stakes. The engineers We're fore
ed to cut every strand of the wire with
their nippers and many of them fell
into the pits while engaged in this
work.
The men on both sides In the great
fought with desperate courage.
A company of Stakelberg's men held a
fort with only two machine guns, fight
ing like devils while the Japanese could
hardly be driven to retreat. When Mr..
Wallace arrived at the front he took
his station with a bunch of men who
We're behind rock. They were all
glad to see an American and all wanted
to shake hands with him. When the
outside man reached over to shake
their heads above the rock. At this !
juncture a bullet struck the top of the
rock and split, half of 1t going through |
Wallace's hair. AT another time a bull
let struck Wallace's boot and glanced
off also going through his hair. Yet
he escaped unframed although he near
~ died of dysentery.
Wallace is of the opinion that, bar
ring outside interference or internal
in Russia, that the strug-
gle will be one of years and that
finances will determine the result. The
Japanese are making their movements
and many of the so-called |
strategic movements of Kuropatkin TO
The rear which many interpret as at
-empts to draw the japanese north are |
by the Japanese. STAFF officers
old Wallace that the Japanese would |
not go north of Mukden. one thing |
lot generally known Is that the Jap |
inese are sending out losses far below /
The actual figures yet they seem 10
itill have plenty Of men TO draw from.
As 10 the report that General Kuroki's
army had been cut OFF from the rest
II the japanese the story originated
rom the fact that "A small detachment
II the army was cut on, though ku-