The Savannah morning news., 1904-11-27
WARS DARKER PICTURES.
SIGHTS IN THE sIILLET FIELDS OF
LIAO-YASG PLAIN.


The Tall Grain Cut by Peasants ON
Recent tIefeId-IncredibIe En-
durapce of wounded Japanese
SoICfer-The Pariah DOg-Wound-
ed COmbatants No Longer Enc
mtes-Outward Indifference. of the
Manchurian Natives Bandit
Scouts.
Correspondence of the New York Post.
Lao Yang, Oct. All the kaoliang.
that tall millet with its burden of
grain at the top like tasselled corn, is
being cut low on recent battlefield. On
coming battlefelds it stands in rows,
in strips, in sparse clumps, or har-
vested in towering stacks-in any de-
sign or condition that will serve to
cover our own earthworks, and sem
trjes. or assist in stealthy infantry
~econnoitering, or disclose the approach
- the enemy. The Chinese farmers
hasten to cut it as the armies die
tate. glad to be able to save some of
their crop.
children no bigger than a blade of
the stalk, wearing nothing but a pig
rail down their backs and a narrow
blue apron depending from the neck
in front, give help with the sickle;
and so do the elderly women, who
have hitherto been so fearful of show
ing themselves that it appeared there
we're no women in Manchuria. Strong
as any peasants are these women, del
icately as them move on the tiny feet
which the men have made them bind
for centuries so they would never run
away
one of them, in the plain before
Lao Yang, came upon a PROSTATE
Japanese soldier. He looked dead,
but he was merely in last faint. 1t
was twelve days subsequent to the end
If the battle; the search parties had
not found him. New recruits passing
on their way to supply the vacant
places at the front were called. They
got their first glimpse Of what a bat
tle may mean to an individual.
The unconscious soldier had been
struck in the thigh by one bullet, and
one tibia had been shattered by an
other. The recruits saw the attempts
he had made to bandage and dress
his wounds with the first aid'' mate
rial which every soldier carries; they
saw the wrappings brown with dried
blood. -.
showed how he had fed himself during
the twelve days of his painful isolation.
He had eaten the tassels of grain at
the top by pulling them down to his
mouth. Exhausting one spot, he had
only to drag himself foot or two to
be among plenty again. 1t was want
of water of course, which tortured him
most and which finally took his senses
away. After reviving at the hospital,
he spoke Of holding his mouth open
to catch rain, of setting his cup for
II. of making a hollow with a piece of
khaki, and of tapping dew from blades
of the kaoliang in the morning. Yes,
his shattered shin had ached: but lack
of water to wet his tongue, that made
him think he must die.
There are worse sights in the kao-
lang. 1t gives one a shudder to see
a flock of rocks settling and circling,
and the tail-down way in which par
iah dogs-cousins of the Siberian wolf
emerge upon the paths as you are rid
ing along needs no Interpretation. In
the busy days of burial many Russians
were not placed very Deep Once in a
while you see uniform containing a
few bones, beside violated grave.
The other day, as the attaches were
being shown the positions the First
Army fought for, the whole party sur
prised a dog Juggling Hard at some
thing. It ran, leaping; and there lay
poor Cossack, wholly uncovered, with
one trouser torn away, revealing-welI,
soldering is not merely a parade
through waving flags and cheering
friends, singing dear songs of country
under beautiful starlight beside glow
ing campfres, nor even all shooting and
getting decently shot.
Another episode, which, however,
cannot describe ht first hand, was
this which comes through Gen. Full
of the Kuroki army: Several wounded
men lay on a hillside after a night
charge. Six were Japanese and seven
were Russian. They saw one another,
and crept together and stretched them
selves side by side to keep warm. One
Russian, whose hurt was in the arm,
offered to steal down the hill to water
and fill all the canteens. He had gone
only little distance when he was shot
by comrades who could not distinguish
his uniform. Another Russian volun-
TERED. He got safely out Of sight
but he never returned. The japanese
got him. The rest of the men could