Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-08-07

In0 Japanese government anu Iu0 gov"
eminent is responsible for their safe
ty
Conduct of Soldiers.
On this occasion, however, the cor
respondent Of the Associated Press
was able to see the conduct of the
soldiers Oh the field and their treat.
ment of wounded and captured enc
mics in the fighting. Whatever rea.
sons of military policy may render
secrecy desirable, there certainly is
nothing in the actions of the soldiers
that need make the Japanese govern
ment keep spectators to the rear. The
treatment Of the Russian victims of
the incOmpetenoy Of their officers was
all that the most enlightened nation
could expect. When the correspon.
dent arrived at the trench where less
than a company of Japanese, rush.
ing from their beds, had STAYED off
the Russian onslaught at first with
bayonets and swords, tn Russian
dead and wounded still lay where
they had fallen on the wet, grassy
slope. How fierce that hours work
there had been there was evidenced
by the pools of blood in tn ed1tch and
red trails smeared all over the grass
and stones on the hillside before it.
Almost Severe dTheir Heads.
In this fighting Liuetenant Keene
alone killed several Russians, almost
severing their heads with a. single
stroke Of his sword When he exhib-
died the weapon afterward It's edge
looked like saw blade. 1t has since
been sharpened for further use.
Although the fight had begun only
three hours before the japanese ad.
vance was half mile down the val.
ley pursuing the Russians, the Japa.
nese dead having been <removed to
temple behind the hill, and parties Of
soldiers from one of the companies in
reserve were going about"the field with
trenching spades burying the dead
Russians where they lay and marking
the graves with a stake or pile of
stones
There was company Of Japanese
soldiers whose khaki coats were black
with mud and sweat gathered at the
trench quietly discussings events with
no signs of excitement.
Japs Good Samaritans.
Thirty wounded Russians we're scat
tered over the ground They had
received. the. first. aid" and were
awaiting their turn while the stretch
er men followed the firing line further
on. Groups Of Japanese stood about
them, giving some cigarettes and wa
ter Three days of steady rain had
out gulHes and bitches in The hillside
which furnished some shelter for
charging force Many of the wounded
had crawled into these places for shell
ter. Over at the right Of the trench
the road ran down the valley and
along its further side a brook, which
had worn bed among the rocks. Part
of the Russian battalion advanced up
the bed of the stream and a number
were shot as they emerged into the
roadway. One wounded soldier had
crawled back to the brook for water
and died with his face in the stream
and his canteen beside his hand as
though he had tried to fill it, In the
road a young Japanese bent over
massive SIav with an arm under his
head holding a water bottle to his
Inns
Calmly Smoking Cigarette.
One Russian with a, bad furrow
ploughed through his thigh took his
plight happily. With stone under
| his head and tin of water beside him
he rolled a cigarette and chartered in
| Russian when no one could under
stand, gesuring and laughing. Two
| Japanese were escorting to the rear a
| burly fellow with a huge yellow beard
who had suffered bayonet slash
across the scalp. He was strong
enough to walk, but in a delirium,
muttering to himself continually and
rolling his eyes. Every hundred feet
he would sit down on rock to resta
while his escort waited patiently.
Attack Blunder.
The attack itself appears to have