The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-12-27
with KJR0Kl
IN MANCHURIA."
Extracts From Frederick Palmer.
Book On the War.


Book On the War.
THAT old question which we had
ever asked in the months Of our wait
ing in emp on the way from the Yalu-
VIII EuroDatkin stand at Lao Yang?
was answered for the trouble of
climbing TO the top of a ridge by the
flashing of 500 guns, like the sparks
from wood when a red-hOt iron is
drawn across it. That scene of armed
strength, the most magnificent since
the Germans were before Sedan, did
not turn my thoughts to Kuropatkin
but to another general. the head of
the Russian railroad system. One
sweeping glance told you that Prince
Hilkoff had made good with his sin
gle-track railroad
1T was strange that the first great
battle with modern arms should be
fought in the suburbs of a Manchurian
town, and strange to find here on this
day a tribute to a Russian nobleman
because he had learned railroading
from bureau to locomotive over vast
eXpanses in America"
War in the Dark.
$50 the enemy. in turn, undertook a
night attack. Again the shrapnel
bursts flashed over Hayentai after the
out from the crest which had been
dead gray against the sky during the
day A Siberian regiment and a regi-
ment fresh from Russia-the old to
steady the new under the first stagger-
ing blast and the new bringing ingeni-
GUS faith in his invincibility-came
with drums-drums in the night! There
was no artifice. The heavy Slav, like
same mad giant, rushed upon skill
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rent of men swept up Hayentai. They
ingulfed the Japanese who were there
as the Japanese had ingulfed the Rus
slams the night before. Then the fight
in the dark began. The Japanese,
driven back on their reserve in the
village, reformed. Shell fire no longer
shook their nerves or broke their ranks.
The batteries of neither side might fire
in the dark without firing into their
own men. Hayentai was a debris
strewn, blood-strewn, shell-torn, open
arena for men and rif1es-and particl-
larly for the bayonets on the ends of
the rifles. Creeping upward like cats,
Inc little men put their steel in the
big men and swamped the Russian adj
vance before its reserve could be
brought into action. In the morning
the mist of shrapnel hanging over the
crest was still Russian, which told us
that the Japanese still held that little
MIR as vital to either side as a bridge
to roadstead."
The Aftermath of Battle
THE days fighting was finished. but
not the days work, nor the days
drudgery nor the days misery. The
wounded were yet to be brought in
and the dead and the fuel to burn
them collected by weary limbs. The
plunging fire of the Russians against
their foe, struggling through the rough
fields and over rougher, untitled slopes
had caused the division 600 casualties
including the death of a colonel.
Late in the afternoon a deluge of
rain washed the blood off the grass
The flood of water turned dry beds into
dashing rivulets. The food of slaugh-
ter, also settling towards the valley.
passed on by the single hospital tent
already congested at daybreak from
the night attack-into the village.
whose population was crowded into a
few houses in order that the wounded
might be crowded into others. Through
every doorway you caught a glimpse
of PROSTATE figures and of white band
ages with red spots which made them
like wrapped flags of Japan.
Dripping hospital corps men brought
| in dripping burdens covered with
! blankets or with the mating in which
the rice and horse fodder of the army
J are transported. When darkness came.
the lanterns OF the searchers twinkled
| in and out on the hillside. Dawn
found them still at work collecting
| stray Russian wounded, who had lain
| suffering all night in the rain for a
$3.50 year and the glory which the
Cars service brings them. In the
| bushes, in the declivities between the
| rocks of many square acres-could ev-
cry fallen man be gathered? How
many cries coming family from fever
ishly dry lips and finally dying into
a swoon were Unanswered? At some
future time, when a Chinese peasant
| stuInbles over a set of bones, the world
will not be. the wiser"
| Japnn's Real Ambition.
with Port Arthur and Korea in her
hands Japan will have the main selfish
points of the war. They furnish her a
striking ground for the mightier con-
fiict that may come in a future gen.
Grafton. Her army at home is always
! literally on the flank of any Russian
| movement in Korea. If Japan takes
Hardin, she forces the Russian base
| back to Irkutsk. Vladivostok then
must fall of its own weight. Thus the
war will be ended by a blow. No one
at all familiar with the situation can,
for moment. question that Russia
must maintain an army of 500, 600 men
in order to force Japan to Kinchow
| and the borders of Korea. | myself
such Is my confidence in the Japanese
say that a million is nearer the mark
If after repeated attempts Russia
| fails, then from sheer exhaustion on
both sides peace will come. If she sue
ceeds, the line of least resistance for
her by which she can re-establish her
| prestige In the East. is to swing In
flank upon Pekin, while Germany at