The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-05-05
JapS Get Sore Feet In
The Marching In Korea
lack LONDON TELLS IN EXAMINER OF THE SUFFER
INGS OF JAPANESE RESERVES IN KOREA-JAPANESE
SUFFER GREAT AGONY-SURGEONS ARE CHEERFUL
WITH THEM

wounds So before the fighting begins unusually fair
suffering The softer the and the
er, the greater the suffering
Napoleon in his last DAYS complained his conscp
They block my roads with their
modern different from the warrior OF
old different modern warfare different from the fare
old There nothing today compare with the running regi
the Zuu which carried baggage and killed their
wounded with Nongols mounted shaggy ponies their great
ooped straps sup their baggage the clothes and
Viking orebears who
ravage fair with little than casks OF water in their
narrow sharp-beaked galleys,
Life was simple in days simple There
premnaries The innaton the cry the watchers the
the flare OF signal fires along the The fighting mme
date followed But today owing the changed conditions OF society
and warfare takes very long get officially started
equally long time get the combaants together This last is due
the modern armies but the outfits which
must be carried with them.
Granted army off Of the country dare loose
from base because would have powder shell
balls the energy which drove home death
Grated mans body directly from the food he had eaten lie cut his
bow the wood and from the tail OF the horse hH
hide Of the bullock he killed for his last meal Did it
become necessary beege city he built his baeng and
catapu the and for ammunition gathered from adj
hillside But today the energy which drives home death is
Grated by the chemists large factories and must be carried about by
soldiers who while srapne and shell not to be
gathered hillside until after the battle Here, Korea
six weeks have passed since the landing OF the Japanese soldiers an
has been killed. likely that another six weeks will
bodies Russian and Japanese soldiers locked in
combat Yet the men on both sides will be as busy as naers getting
ready make preparations to fight.
and as changed have the cond
tons changed which make the soldiers Inc conScrPt OF the
Century totally different from the manaarms OF the middle
ages business lighting and who engaged in that lasted
sometimes beyond his lie time Inc cocP ol To-Day Ve peace
industrious life and has heard aauns until the mo-
little hurled
field OF battle lie is practically unused to hardship ana is cerah
unframed long marching with heavy knapac his back And
further moral fiber endurance and boodshed
concerned soft and aby when compared with the professional
soldier
is because OF these things that hospitals filled
with exhausted and crippled men within two weeks after the
mobilization OF the army and with this in mind that selected as
Oppoune for visit the surgeons busy day susan was occupied by
several hundred men OF the Twelfth DIVISION lh uco was 10
guard line of communication and to be broken in to the work OF
soldiers Several hours OF each morning and afternoon they spent III
rough field drilling They sought shelter on their omach Ded io
through muck and charged imaginary Russians distant
oP eeated precptate order raced across the rice h eaPd
bitches or Houndered through and scaled the most places
in sight brought the them and caused them to breathe
heavily In short was pretty severe work. Tor they were manly re-
with sprnng OF regulars and throughout the drill they car
ried their knapsacks on their backs
When the afternoons work they permitted call
the surgeon called at the time and found him. with his assist
squatng the floor OF which measured seven
clerk The large majority were regular cases Tor they were IN the doom
they held tickets Of admance For hours quaed at the
surgeons watched There little stomach trouble and
that little caused by cold alone and no dSene few had colds and
given powders OF which heap papewrapped lay on the floor
The in reply my query as to what per cent mad gone INTO
hospitals since the landing at Chemupo Sad; About hos pei
cent
But the Fully 90 per OF the that nature
And such ee There Sores on which the Ddeeo
men Such anywhere from the size
piece half dollar OPEN with hard edges and filled
with proud flesh Here the side OF the heel square inch or so
off There the sole OF the foot would be great caou
would exhibit little toe quite detormed and sapeeSs or NOE
which another had worked nearly the bone At eas
half the men had both feet and some had as many as SIN or eg
Throughout all the kept up running fire OF advice ans
wcism To whose request to be relieved from duty was ded
he said: Before you merely soldier
Your you unused to walking Walk slfu
they hurt To another upon whom de
cdedy painful operation performed and who had be held by hi
comrades "Why do you cry soldier does not You are gont
to fight the Russians squrmg composed hi
face "Why you you make trouble
a little thing like this?
These men, used all their lives had been
their coors and ncae their feet the harsh eahe
the West Not only this for many OF the fits bad OF
rather many msfs again the whole leg and foo
action who has sandals is different from that whc
wearing boots And the boots had fitted the feet tn
very action the legs alone would have chaed
Ilaceraed.
ees in the first march OF 200 mile
must have yearned plant sandals which they had been
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