The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-31

left to ride around the positions anu 4.tleahWhile his train WAS broushe ~ 4ba
 ue main line and proceeded Hrst so s station and afterwards, when the e0 bis Hlahder had returned and tu'ei ts,s carriage, three Versts from Lao aiis' 'ne train was drawn onto a sluiis, 4 5.,aro
 On riding through the town just peiote .ne departure, l stopped near the ciiui ii's, e,, A A sad picture presented itself 10 my eses. Ch the other side of the enclosure Ill .ihy hollow, lay ten eorpses' piaeeo s sios py Side, and covered with sheets, Il oi.i under which one could see thei. lee,' .,, looking hdeously dirty, covered Wlth 1 black earth Some of them still wore their boots, but the majority were pare | footed. The aged priest and his deacon, | With a few choristers selected rom the | non-combatants, were hurriedly reading the burial service While the service was being read over some of the eorpses. bearers were hastily bringing others ana uncerimoniously hinging them on the ground
 Up to ? o'clock in the afternoon the Japanese left us alone. It was said that they were placing siege guns to bonn bard the city Our armies retreated be- yond the line of forts and took up very | well entrenched positions. lhdescr1babie tumult prevailed at the railroad staten. Trains were rapidly formed, loaded with | | commissariat stores, and hurriedly for warded. The refreshment room at the station was thronged mostly with re- serve officers and eommissary officers, as well as doctors and sisters of mercy, all hurrying to satisfy their hunger, as no one knew when he would next have meal
 The hum of many voices filled the air; the noise was literally deafening. Sud | denly just at 2 o'clock, the well-known hlssing sound of a shell was heard above the station roof and the projectile burst alongside the building. An awful crash Tor moment obliterated all otner sound; then came the rattle of falling glass and | stone; the crowd rushed hther and thither-a piercing shriek rent the air; It came from a sister of mercy who had been struck by a splinter as she was crossing the platform. She fell, covered Wltth blood. Then came another she'll bursting little to the side near the water tower; third fell beyond the sta tlon at spot where the foreign military attaches lived. The bombardment of Liao Yang had begun.
 Along the whole length of the railroad, the Red Cross hospital of the Gorges | Sisterhood, stretched line of tents where lay the wounded, whom it had been im- possible to place in the railway carriages. Here they were dressed sorted out and entrained. As the carriages were filled | up the trains moved off, one after an- | other The sun was setting; night was at | hand.
 Fire Breaks Out. In some places fire broke out; some stores which had not been removed were | burning. Shots re-echoed on all sides. | The flare of innumerable discharges of artillery was to be seen here and there. 1 Above everything glowed the flames of | the lire and the heart was filled with ! the bitterness of a vague affront. Only now could l to some extent realize what | our ancestors had felt in leaving Moscow, since the abandonment of such an insig- nihcant and even foreign place as Liao | Yang causes a heartache Today it IS i still in our hands. but tomorrow. or at latest the day after. the Japanese will enter.
 All night long the Japanese poured a l stream of shot and shell into Liao Yang, centering their fire upon the spot where stood the headquarters of the commits sariat depots. The latter however, had ! almost all been emptied. This senseless. futile bombardment racked ones nerves.
 What are the fooI wasting their ammu- milton for?' muttered a spectator beside me. Whom are they shooting at? Noth- ing but empty air and empty houses. Evidently they don't know what to do
 
 It must be true .hat the Japanese have an inexhaustible supply of ammunition. it they can squander it so wildly It IS to be supposed that they derive an esthetic delight from listening to the sound of their own guns.
 Late in the evening we were told that on the following day September ?. Kuro- patkin would leave his train which was going straight on to Mukden, and that | e x1tb the army
 September 2-About 6 o'clock in the morning a convoy of Amour cossacks drew up around the commanders car riage, where a brilliant staff was assem- bled. The commissarat trains had al- ready left and were stretching in q long caravan toward the village of Chanstun, where they were to bivouac.
 Alter half a." hours conference in Ku- ropatkin's carriage the first to come out was General Sakharoff. He looked TO- bust and cheerful his face breathing en- ergy. Summoning his orderly officers, the chief of staff quickly gave them his in- struetons and then lightly jumped into his saddle. He is a splendid horseman.
 Immediately behind Sakharoff came Kuropatkin, walking with slow. decided tread. Good morning, cossacks," rang out his cheerful greeting. "We wish good health to your high excellency," came the reply.
 The commander mounted his horse and the whole cortege moved off.