The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-08-07
JAPANESE MAKE
VIGOROUS ATTACK
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wounded. were resting there with 4
small Japanese sitting behind them
The Japanese soldiers OF the column
are heavier men than the average OF
most European armies. but the Rus
SLAMS In the Tenth and Twenty fourth
East Siberian regiments are larger
and the boards which most Of them
wear after a season of campaigning
give them a particularly fierce appear,
ance. The bodies OF three Russians
who had been killed on the parapet CT
the trench were laid in the road be-
! hind 1t with their snuff-colored coats
thrown over their faces. Four others
of the Tenth East Siberian dressed in
gray blonses and caps with no regi-
mental insignia, We're on the ground
beside them, One was shot through
both legs, one had been bayonetted In
an arm and leg. another had bul.
let hole In the abdomen and another
was shot in the foot. The man wound
ed in the abdomen was dying, his face
already had the color of corpse and
his breathing was slow gasps. A hos.
pital attendant sat near, black
bearded, keen-faced young fellow, dis
playing a white band, with the Red
Cross on his arm. His satchel of band.
ages was open on the ground. He
had done what he could for his com
rade and was stolidly awaiting devel
opments.
Thirty wounded Russians were scat
tered over the ground before the
trench. They had received "first aid
and were waiting their turn, while
the stretcher men followed the firing
line further on. Groups of Japanese
stood about them giving some cigar.
cites and water and talking with them
In the broken Russian which a few
know and the Chinese phrases which
the men of both armies pick np from
The natives Of the, country. Three days
OF steady rain had cut guIlies ana
bitches in the hillside which furnish. |
I'd some shelter for a charging force
Many OF the wounded had crawled |
into these places for shelter Over at
The right of the trench the road ran /
down the valley and along it's further |
side brook had worn bed among
the rocks Part of the Russian bat
TALON advanced up the bed of the
stream and a number We're shot as
they emerged into the roadway. One
wounded soldier had cwawled back to
the brook for water and died with his
ace In the stream and his canteen be
TO fill it.
In the road young Japanese bent
over massive Slav with an arm I'M.
der his head holding water bottle
to his lips.
One Russian with a bad furrow
ploughed through his thigh took his
plight happily. With stone under his
head and tin of water beside him he
rolled himself cigarettes and chatter.
ed in Russian, which no one could un4
ierstand, gesturing and laughing.
Two Japanese wee escoting to the
'ear aburly fellow with huge yellow
beard who had suffered a bayonet
slash across the scalp. He was strong
enough to walk, but in delirium,
to himself continually and
'oiing his eyes. Every hundred feet
he would rest on a rock while his es.
,ort waited patiently
The attack itself appears to have
'een another of their blunders, which.
Ike the Indifferent defense of the va.
u, wasted lives without result. Had
he Russians been informed of the po-
tslons and strength of the Japanese
hey must have known that they new.
n had chance of success. The en-. II
agement was merely an outpost af.
air, but 1t was typical of the methods
nd abilities of the opposing armies.