The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-11-22
DARK SCENES
OF THE WAR
GrewSOme Sights in Millet
Fields of LiaOyang Plains.
THE MEANING OF BATTLE
Striking Endurance Of a Wounded Jap
anese Soldier Wounded Com
batants Who Were No Longer
Enemies.
THE MEANING OF BATTLE

AL the kaolian4. that tall nillet With
its burden Of grain at the top like tas-
seled corn. IS being cut low on recent
battle6elds. writes the special CORE
spondent OF the New York Post from
Liaoyang, IN Manchuria. under tie
date OF oct. 4. on coming battlefields
II stands IN rows. in strips, Ia sparse
ciumps or harvested ia towering stacks
--in any design or condition Tint Viii
serve to cover japanese earthworks or
sentries or assist IN stealthy infantry
accommodating OF disclose the approach
OF the enemy The Chinese TURNER'S
hasten TO cut it as the armies dictate.
glad to save some Of their crop.
Children no bigger tnan blade Of
the stalk, wearing nothing hut a pig
TAN down their bucks aud narrow
blue apron depending from the neck IN
front, give help with the sickle and SO
do the elderly women who have ,hith
erto been 50 fearful of showing them.
selves that it appeared there We're no
women ia Manehuria Strong as any
peasants are these women, delicately
as they move on the tiny feet which
the men have made them bind for cen
turtles so they would never run away,
One of them in the plain before Lao
yang came upon PROSTATE Japanese
soldier He looked dead but he was
merely IN a last faint. It was twelve
days subsequent to the end Of the bat
tie The search parties had not found
him. New recruits passing on their
way to supply Tie vacant places at the
front were called They got their first
glimpse OF what battle may mean to
an individual
The unconscious soldier had been
struck in the thigh by one bullet, and
one tibia had been shattered by an
other The recruits saw the attempts
he made to bandage aud dress his
wounds with the first aid material
which every soldier carries; they saw
the wrappings brown with dried blood.
Bent and broken millet within reach
showed how he had fed himself dur
ing the twelve days Of his painful iso.
lation lie had eaten the tassels OF
grain at the top by pulling them down
to his mouth. Exhausting one spot.
he had only to drag himself a foot on
two to be among plenty again IL was
the want Of water Of course, which
tortured him most and which finally
took his senses away After arriving
at the hospital he spoke Of holding his
mouth open to catch rain. of setting his
cup for it, Of making a hollow with
piece Of Khaki and OF tapping dew from
blades Of the kaoliang in the morning.
Yes, his shattered shin had ached, but
lack of water to wet his tongue. that
made him think he must die
There are worse sight in the kaoliang
1t gives one a shudder to see flock of
rocks settling and circllng. and the tail
down way in which pariah dogs cous
lns of the Siberian wolf emerge upon
the pats as you are riding along needs
no Interpretation. In the busy days of
burial many Russians were not placed
very deep Once in awhile you see
uniform containing few bones be
side violated grave The other day.
as the attaches were being shown the
positions the first army fought for. the