Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-07

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 Cxar-Japanese Omcer's Account o1
 Nippon Charge at Nanshan-Dar.
 inE of Japnnese Sailor.
 Miss Alice Brineman, Red Cross nurse on duty with one of the Japanese armies at the front, tells in letter to relatives in Shenandoah, Pa, how a single piece of ordnance, howitzer, given by resident of Philadelphia to Japanese officer, kept three Russian regiments at bay for whole day while the main Japanese force was executing a fanking movement, says the Phila- delphia Record Miss Brineman writes:
 "The Russians. imagined they were fighting the full strength of the Jap- anese detachment, and I see by the press dispatches that their officers claimed to have 'silenced the Japanese batteries. It is possible that they do not yet know that the only thing they were up against was little Philadel- phia howitzer, which was hurried from point to point behind the Japanese breastworks in order to give the Rus sians the impression that all the Jap- anese batteries were still in position.
 This incident will serve to explain to the public why the Russian army so frequently after the officers report hay ing 'silenced the Japanese batteries re- tires and retreats long distance. In nearly every case the Japanese field pieces have vacated the positions which the Russians believe they have shelled effectively and are scurrying around to the Russian right or left.
 During all this summers campaign it has usually been the case that the first intimation the Russians had of these tactics was when the roar of the enemy's pieces was suddenly heard to the side, in good position. to cut off their retreat. This explains why Gen eral Zassoulitch in every engagement in which his troops fought has been obiig- ed to abandon his guns to the laps, as no time was left for his retreat.
 '"The Russians, however, are now be- ginning to anticipate the favorite tac- tical movements of the Japs, and in order to be prepared they sent out scouting parties for miles. They also began flanking tactics themselves dur ing several of the minor engagements fought during August The elaborate plans of the Japs, however, who exc cuted one turning movement after the other in such rapid succession as to be- wilder the Russians, invariably proved successful"
 Miss Brineman states that the hoW- itzer of which the Japanese made such effective use against General Zassou- litch's troops once ornamented pub lie square in Philadelphia. After 1t was removed it came into the posses sion of an officer of the regular United States army, who presented 1t to a Japanese officer about eight years ago on the occasion of a visit to the United States. This piece of ordnance did duty during the American civil war, but with the new Japanese powder 1t was found that the howitzer had pow CT to throw larger projectiles than many of the more modern guns used by the Japs.
 "The Japanese" Miss Brineman writes, 'vaiue the howitzer very high ly. Their equipment with heavy guns is not as thorough as reported, and if a Russian fleet should sweep down the coast of Japan it would be found that many of the principal seaports have been denuded of their protection in ordnance in order to supply the armies and the besiegers at Port Arthur with implements"
 Among the recorded deeds of hero ism accomplished in the course of the Russo-Japanese war few equal in bril- liant recklessness the exploits of a fourteen-year-old lad, Nicholas Zoueff. enrolled with the Siberian rifles, in the field north of Liaoyang, says the New York Globe.
 The boy, decorated few days ago with third cross of St. George by General Kuropatkin in person, is the adopted son of Lieutenant zoueff, who went down with his ship, the Petro- pavioysk, at the time this battleship was sunk in Port Arthur harbor.
 Again and again the lad has crossed the Japanese lines with dispatches for General Stoessel, always making good his escape Taken prisoner by a Jap anese reconnoitering party, he un-
 
 away in a hail of bullets, arriving in the Russian camp after twenty mile ride with a fractured collar bone.
 In one of his perilous excursions into the Japanese lines he unscrewed the breech block of one of the guns of the enemy and brought it back into the Russian camp as a trophy.
 Although the army regulations do not allow enlistment at an earlier age than eighteen, zouefe's exploits have won him full membership in the Siberian rifles.
 A Japanese officer writing for Les lies Magazine thus describes one of the charges made by, the Japanese in fantry at Nanshan:
 Suddenly we saw from where we were, on curve of the Nanshan crest facing the Kinchau bay, a sight which made our blood bound in our veins--it was the battfefag of Nippon Tapping away over where the Russian trenches were. That was the signal for gen