The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1904-12-17
JAPS' LITTLE BULLETS.
WOUNDS ONCE CONSIDERED
MORTAL HEAL RAPIDLY.
Russian Injured Bless the Little Bull.
lets Of Japanese-Astonishi Re-
coveries from the Effect Of Gunshot
Wounds in the Manehurian Cam.
paign.


Wounds in the Manehuran Cam
paisn.
The st. Petersburg correspondent
OF the London Telegraph gives some
astonishing accounts of the effect OF
the Japanese bullets as shown by the
condition of the Russian wounded.
The Japanese have merited we'll of
their enemies. he says, for their hui
manity in dealing death on the battle
field. Their bullets, say the Russian
surgeons, are, If not precisely harm
less. at least the next best thing to
that-they form the mildest kind OF
missile that has ever yet been hurled
from rife. One Of the consequences
ls that a number Of wounds which
were formerly mortal are now healed
and forgotten in a few days Another
is that the number of Russians who
quit the hospital for the battlefield is
greater than was ever witnessed in
any war before. Blessings on the
little Japs for their tiny little bullets,
say the Cossaciss and Caucas:ans.
I'm the sanitary train we nave as
founding cases Of wounds healed"
writes a surgeon; "the character of
the hurt surprises US. and as for the
rapidity with which the soldier recov-
ers. we'll, it is hard to ask any one
to believe it who mas not actually
seen it. II
wounds caused by bullets which
enter the chest and go out through
the back are Of frequent occurrence.
The patients recover rapidly. Take.
for instance. Private Kurtoff, OF the
Third Fast Siberian Rifles. He was
shot Wafangkow on June Is. The
bullets entered his lungs. For less
than ten days blood was detected in
his saliva, but soon all symptoms had
gone. the wounds were cicatriced, and
the brave warrior is himself once
more and back on the field as active
as ever. Private Kules had hole
made in his liver, but he. too. has al
ready begun to forget that he eve:
had a wound there. On the same bat
tlefield a private Of the Tbirty-fourth
East Siberian Regiment named Bulga-
koff received q mild Japanese bull
let, which passed through one of his
lungs and his diaphragm. injured his
liver and went out at the spinal col
umn. He was picked up, cared for
and cured. and now he is on his way
to Russia to take a rest
"Vilkovitch is the name OF SOL
dier Of the Third East Siberian Regi
ment who has had wonderful expert
ence to look back upon. His bullet
found its billet when he was lying be-
hind the intrenchments at Wafang-
kow, on June Is. 1t cut its way
through his shoulderblade, passed
through his lungs, penetrated the dia-
phragm and the abdomen, damaged
the intestines and went out. The sol
lier was fortnight under treat
ment and is now on the war path once
MORE"
A medical investigator called upon
l captain who had been in the thick
II the fight and had lost all his young |
,r officers, non-commissioned officers |
Ind 140 privates. between May 81 and |
July Is, and asked him for informa-
ion.
81 am lost in wonder" he remarked
o the captain, Eat the miraculous
way in which our fellows rise from
he dead, as it were. They recover
rom wounds which are officially NOR
al. Now, I want, you to tell me, are
hese exceptional cases that l have
'een studying, or have you anything
ike them?"
"The Japs fire accurately" was the
nswer; they often nit our men in
he head. but when the bullets pass
lean through, many of the men get
7ell."
Curious. Well. and how do they
are when the bullet strikes them in
he abdomen? You know hurt in
he peritoneum almost infallibly
rings on peritonitis and death. And
ct we are transporting men who
'ere wounded in that very region and
re now hale and hearty"
81 suppose that means only that
1ey were wounded while they had
cen long fasting. II a man gets
ullet in the peritoneum on a full
tomach ne will probably not live to
njoy many more meals. Anyhow, l
an tell you that whoever gets one of
III bullets either in the abdomen or
le head won't worry much in this
ale of tears"
"How do you account for the diff
,rence In the results?"
II attribute it to their funny bull
is, which have a different mantle
ON ours. Theirs is more compact
ut If you take it and rub it ever so
tile on stone, then it's deadly. But
esides the quality Of the casting
lere is the size of the bullet itself 4
with ours it is tiny, and its
'locity is considerably greater. Our
agazine rifle 1881 model takes a
lllet of three lines, and imparts to
an initial velocity of 6200 metres;
hereas the Jap rifles (model 1890
we a 25-line bullet with an initial {
,locity of 725 metres. The Japanese
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