Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-21

Scene on Russian Fighting Line
 When the Bread Wagons Appeared.
 Japanese Tribute to Brave NTusco-
 vite Omcer-Exploit of One of the
 Czar's NIidshipmen.
 While the world militant is full of praise for General Anatole StoessePs desperately heroic defense of Port Ar thur, too little Is said of the magnifi- cent and devoted share that Mime. Stoessel has had in that work, says special cable dispatch from St. Peters burg to the New York American and Journal. General Stoessel is undoubt- edly the hero of Port Arthur. Mime. Stoessel is surely it's heroine, while the garrison calls her it's saint.
 When General Stoessel was called to serve in the far east his wife followed him. When the siege of Port Arthur began she did not think for moment of leaving the invested fortress, and from the time the Arst gun was hred she took on herself the direction of the ambulance service. Her work in that post was so splendid that soon the sol diers came to regard her as provi- dence, protectress with whose life was linked that of the besieged city.
 And so it came to pass that when on the 3d of August last Mme. Stoessel, while ministering to wounded soldier, was seriously injured in the shoulder by the fragment of shell Ia general grief, mingled with fright, was spread throughout the citadel. The feeling of sorrow and dread was even experi- enced at St. Petersburg, and was in tensided by the receipt of General StoessePs pathetic message that Port Arthur would be his tomb, message, 1t is said, which was written by the bedside of his stricken wife.
 But, wonderful to say, i've days aft CT being wounded-that is, the Sth of August-Mme. Stoessei quilted the hospital and immediately made tour of the forts to reassure the garrison. Struggled letters received at St. Pc tersburg describe this visit as being one of the most touching incidents of the siege. Men wept, while others knelt down by companies and kissed tAG ASlu sVl tAc HdAAAAL WOA40A S 0LGSS as though she were saint.
 A Russian correspondent with Gen eral Orlon's force at the battle of Liaoyang gives the following pic turesque account of the feeding of the Russian soldiers during battle, says the London Standard:
 Hunger was written on every mans face, a starving, wolfish hunger, which intensified the ferocious ex- jpressions of the dirty, tired and angry men.
 At o'clock deafening roar rang all along the trenches. I turned my glasses to look for charging Japs, but my ear soon distinguished not the martial 'Ura,' but triumphant. shout of 'Khleb, Rhleb. khleb (breadw | don't think if the commander in chief had ridden up on his white horse he would have got such reception.
 "The commissariat men, with wag- ons and baskets, came forward bravely through the bursting Japanese shells. Bread, breadr roared the soldiers. And every one of them looked happy dAu dlnG5Cu us CA4A0lCAA 3W1IA AAAASt- mas toys All snatched eagerly, and can never forget the horrible laugh and scramble which began when shell knocked wagon to bits, killing the driver and strewing the black hunks all over the ground. The sol diers, conscious of nothing but hunger, Jumped from their positions and strug g1ed, buffeted and butted one another.
 s'The dead man in the middle of the bread was not even looked at. Then another shell fell It dId not explode. But nobody save the soldier whose foot it had smashed to pulp paid the slightest attention, and not until every man had secured his dinner was the shell removed"
 The Russo-J Japanese war abounds in romance and deeds of chivalry, says a special cable dispatch from Tokyo to, the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Jap- anese are by no means slow to recog- nize yalor in an enemy, as is wit messed by an incident that occurred several days ago.
 Commandant Oyama, attached to the staff of General Oku, wrote to his fam- fly at Tokyo of touching scene which he observed during one of the recent engagements. The captain of com pany of Siberian sharpshooters order ed his men to charge and dashed in front of them, only to become aware in few. moments that not one of them had moved
 V He kept on, however, and when just in front of the hostile column of Japa- nese he took his revolver from the hol- ster and put bullet through his brain. Immediately the commanding officer of the Japanese ordered his men to pre- sent arms before the corpse, while the entire troop burst into cries of Ran zai! Banzair' to show their admira- tion of the Russians courage.
 He was young lieutenant, known throughout Japan as "the hero of Mo tienling,' writes F. A. Mckenzie in the London Mail.
 At the Russian attack on that pass on July 4 he slew bakers dozen with