The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19

the glasses scattered and running ike
men out of the rain-Out OF safety into
danger they were in faet-over a knob
at its left and plungins INTO the Rus
sian trench This was the greatest
moment OF all Here We're reinforce
raeutsi here was a prospect Of re-
sistance that provided another thrill
in the drama Every rife added tie
the speaking ones in the trench meant
more patients for the surgeons watt
ing the hospital tents for the first ar
rivals
Here. too. was a mark to gladden.
the heart Of the arUllcrymau. How
long before the gunners would see iL2
or was not the knob iu the range
of their vision? If not. they must
soon receive the signal from those who
could see. There We're no longer 35,-
COO men about to assault position.
Nothing except batteries and some
Russians running across a knob into
a trench-Where they were to go
through he'll ia order TO keep an enc
nay in cheek for quarter OF an hour
sim they came. SIN the guns said
nothing in protest. Seconds became
minutes
A Useless Sacrifice Of Life.
The altitude was great; the range
was new When the word was passed
the shooting was the worst i have
ever seen the japanese Eunners do
Higher and higher they lifted the
bursts. which still did not reach the
mark. while the Russians kept on cons
ing as uumindful as If shrapnel we're
fireworks. ''Cbat surely viii 'be high
enough the gItuDers must have
thought with each discharge. only 10
find that it fell short. They kept on
lfling and lifting them progress OF
explosions uD the hillside-tin finally
of 81 nm f al
fairly over the heaos of the targets.
The Russians paid no attention to that
OF the next or the next. Then one
exploded a little over them and q lit
tie in front Of them, so that they got
tine fun benefit of its spread
And now an the guns had the range
Common shell tossed the earth sky
ward; shrapnel was scattered from
above. Like so many paper figures
under a bellows, one burst blew
half-d0zeu Russians down. Then we
saw no more except those who came
out TO bring iD the fallen. The dare
devil SlaV had taken the straight path
while the breaking roar of muzzles
Knocked his temerity. Afterward we
learned that ne could have gone around
under cover but that would have
lacked apl0mb which is important in
this old fashioned war.
Uuremittngly the Russians held 90
their task The japanese line, which
had moved out i'm a semicircle TO en-
EelOp the whole Russian position, had
TO deal with the situation as it devel-
Oped. The adVersary's defense had
been outlined exactly Every man on
the plain knew the limits Of its length.
AT either side of this trench were
TaVines leading 10 to either end
The most natural human instinct
or animal instinct. for that matter
viii seek t9 get an opponent on the
hip, that is, on the flank. The idea
was simple Putting il into eXecu-
ton was the finest bit of military work
of that day Under The CALLING FIRE,
the Japanese changed front by COM
PAM Then pressing under cover Of
the heights, we soon saw a column
passing no either raVine. III this fedr
there had been uo fahering step, il
was done with such drill ground eN-
aetuess that the dropping units seemed
a part OF the evolution. Those who
pressed no the TaVines were only a
part. a seusibly delegated part, while
the extreme left of the line filed on
into the little town Of Chiu Lien Cheng.
and The Tight-we saw little of the
right which extended up the Al river,
thought little of it i'm the occupation
of nearer impression, little anticipated
the part ID was 10 play before nlSht-
fan. Did those i'm the trench know
of the streams of blue coats, either
with a biz japanese flag at its head
marking every foot Of ascent like an
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