Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-14
RUSS LOOK FOR A
TURN Of The TIDE
General Staff at st. Petersburg
Predicting Change In the
Fortunes Of War
oATlsFlED WITH THE SITUATION
They Believe Russia Will Make Better
Showing From Now on in Manchur-
la-Terrible Effects Of the Hand
Grena'des at Port Arthur-Work Of
Huryins Dead Going on.

st. Petersburg, Dec. 14.--The gem
era1 stair apparently is entirely salts
fied with the military situation In
Manchuria being convinced the Japs
have reached their high tide before
Port Arthur, with the third Japanese
army.
The effect of dynamite used as an
Offensive weapon in the form OF mana
grenades is instanced in an appalling
manner by the condition of the dead
bodies which are torn Into unrecog-
nizable masses Of flesh and bones.
Fragments of hundreds Of killed are
unearthed from the filled In Russian
trenches and presented scene Of
awful horror.
The work of removing the dead from
the slopes and crests of 203 Metre Hill
has been completed on the north side.
the south slopes are still covered with
bodies buried under debris of trenches
and bomb proofs. The long lines of
japanese dead presented an awful APP
,pearance. Most of the bodies We're par
TALLY naked and horribly torn by dy-
Mantle, bombs.
Mukden, Nov. This was an un-
known and unheralded fight, when the
Don cossacks set out to confound the
armchair strategists and prove that
cavalry could take amodern a battery
Of quick firers, supported by infantry
THAT they failed was due only to an
other development OF modern warfare
on Witch they had not counted--barb-s -. 4
ed wire, thai rung up their charge un-
der tile very muzzles Of the guns But
they Jailed gallantly, and the Associat-
ed Press correspondent heard of 1t only
some time afterward from the officer
who vas sent by Kuropatkin to per-
sonally congratulate the wounded coli
onel in the dash and discipline OF his
men.
Tht. third regiment OF Don Cossacks
was sent forward on October IL to re
connoiter the villages Of Panpausen ana
Tzin2iatum, which nobody ever heard
Of before and whose location was OF no
real interest to anybody, except that
they are IN the direction of Llandlan-
tum. where the light took place. Ihe
Japanese In the two villages first nam
ed were taken by surprise. Panpausen
was cleared by whirlwind charge IN
which there was great deal OF mis-
cellaneous shooting from horseback
and .sabering in the streets. In Tzinz-
iatuni the Japanese had just settled
down to dinner when the regiment
a,yept IN with a clatter of hoofs at one
end of the village and the enemy clear.
cd ont at the other. There was not
even semblance OF defense ana .ne
bearded riders, hungry and thirsty with
their mornings work, found aanner iaiu
for them In the native huts, with nan
drunk cups and glasses and scarce tase-
ed plates Of food, while in the window
lodges stood open jars of sweet-mealos
and preserves from Japan
They were flushed with success ana
comfortably feeding when battery OF
eight quick flrers inconsiderately dis
turbed them by shelling the villages
fIon, some trenches in front or Liam
diantun. II was a reckless, perhaps
unnecessary thing to do, but the col
onel decided that he would get the
guns. lust to show that it could be done.
Away went the regiment at charging In
crer order in the face of heavy fire
from the battery and later comj--Elln-
der a hail of lead from the two COM
psntes of Infantry that were supporting
the battery on each flank. Neither the
shrapnel bursting overhead nor the in
fan,ry fire sufficed to break up the
charge Indeed, the few bullets that
got home was one of the wonders of the
charge.
The charge converged on the battery
and it looked for a moment as tho
The Cossacks would be able to ride
down the gunners when, at the foot of
the trenches, under the very muzzles Of
the guns, the horses were brought UP
ty IA series Of cleverly concealed barbed
wire entanglements, too broad to jump
and too heavy to be torn up. 1t was
here the captain of the leading squad
ron was literally blown out of his sad
die by a shrapnel, twenty-eigh men
were wounded, almost all close under
the guns, and ten Were killed. mostly
during the retreat, when all of the
wounded and most of the dead were
borne away on their comrades sad
dies.
rEhe retreat was even more orderly
thin the charge. The colonel was shot
thru both legs but stuck to his saddle
Until his horse was killed under him.
He managed to mount second horse
ami this was also killed. Then a Co.'S
eat.k swung from his own horse, help
- .l-f i.
by the stirrup until they We're out of
range. Some dead horses and two dead
Cossacks were the only trophies left
In the hands of the enemy. The Dons
took their repulse gamely enough. but
the enlisted men seriously assert that
ba;rbed wire is not legitimate warfare.
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