Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-07
A HERO OF LIAOYANG
Galiantry Of Captain natsui Though
 Badly Wounded.

Just after the recent charge whicI in the middle of an afternoon dis, lodged the Russians from the mud vil- lage of Entaineul litter came along, writes the New York Posts special correspondent from General Oku's field headquarters with the imperial Japa- nese army in Manchuria. A voice from the, litter said, Bon jour, messieurs." /" Looking down, there was the captain of infantry, Matsui, who had shown the foreigners over the Scrub hill posi- tion at the Hills of the Outspread Fin gers, Shusanpo, just a few days pre- viously Was he hurt badly? Where was the wound? 1t was a bullet through the shoulder-not much. Never out of Japan till war came, he never before the day he was detailed to tell his story had seen so many for eigners. (They were less than score) Nor, he added at the veranda tea in Liaoyang afterward, had he ever be- fore heard brass band.
 A At the Hills of the Outspread Fin gers he commanded two companies in the Third division during the attack on Liaoyang, On Aug. 31 two regiments were ordered to take one end, the worst end, of Scrub hill. Wire entanglements ahead caused it to divide. To one side went Captain Matsui with two com pan1es; back of him remained another in reserve. Arriving at other wire ob- stacles, he cut them and sent men for i ward to learn if there were more on the slope itself While awaiting their report the reserves, who had been told not to fire unless Matsui's command was in extrenais, opened notwithstand- ing on the Russian trenches. Russians, rising to fire back, discovered Matsuts men and at the flrgt volley shot down ten of them. Thus. checked, Matsui took his men to 8 road, formed them in close order and went ahead to where there were underground mines. Two of these exploded, then six, more, and the whole little band was covered with dirt, but no man injured. The men ran back to ditch. Officers of the reserve, seeing this, ran forward.
 Ride fire kept up. Captain Matsui was struck in the thigh. His. men re formed, leaving the ditch aud. be nov. ed them forward up. the bill to within 200, yards of the trenches. There the men stopped. ShrapneL from hills be yond the one they were climbing was dropping upon them. They tried again and fell back, then threw up little earth shelters with the spades on their knapsacks. Couriers were sent to battalion and to regimental command CTS for instructions. They did not live to return. Captain Matsui was cut off. He must rely upon his own devices. He kept his men in their inprovised shelters. many in the lee of the mounds of Chinese graves, till midday. No or ! ders from his superiors, and his hurt thigh not improving, he then felt that he should attempt something. When he tried to get up, his wound would not let him. As only one lieutenant was left to lead the men, the captain would not relinquish command. He announc- ed to the lieutenant, we will take our men up the hill.,' ..-,..,......- ....
 He rose and started, then, fell side wise on the hip that was not fit. 4 sergeant lifted him to a rock. The Russian rifles up the hill threw a sharp hail against the two companies. Some bullets passed through three men. The captain sang out that they must go on. Seeing what was happening, the re- serves back on the plain and another battalion to the right started to back up these two hard placed companies, who were now charging, straining through sparse, knee high scrub pine. They were dropping dropping q saw this charge through a glass, but did not know who was making it at that timel, growing fewer and fewer At the top they arrived too weak to take | the trench Out of 195 men only T remained So they crept for protection under the Russian breastwork itself and lay close. ...: 1 Every time Russian head and rife showed above on the rim of the breast work a Japanese would shoot. The Russians had to stay on their side and the Japanese had to stay on theirs. Not four feet apart in space, they were separated from one another by an up- thrown wall of dirt and turf. Stones were rolled down upon the covering men. They threw them back at the en- emy over the wall. The reserves now had their feet on the slope; they were coming fast without a stop, for the Russians could do nothing with seven ! ty-one rifles ready four feet away to put heles in every head that lifted up and tried to aim shot.
 The reserves were at hand. All went up the breastwork together. Two Rus sians threw away their arms and scrambled out of the trench and away. An officer in a colonel's uniform jump ed up and, cut both down with two slashes of his sword. No use! Stam- pede had commenced. The Japanese were clambering across the little bas- tion. One of them shot the colonel, and he lay, quite dead, with his bloody sword, beside the two he had killed. l Captain Matsui, back on his rock with useless thigh, saw his flag break out over the position. After that we met him and learned that he was twen- I ty-seven years old.
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