The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-06-02
FROM THE WAR
How a Japanese Patriot Assist
ed His Country.
PITIFUL YALU BATTLE SCENES.

I1If Uu 1ALU DAlluG NU6NG
| A Cossack Raised C1inched Fist I'm
Agony to Heaven, While "A Polish
| Soldier Lay Moaning For His Loved
One-Russian Girls keenness to
Figbt-Japanese Fathers Sacrifice.
| Franks Played on Gear.
| Rats and soldiers do not seem to
have much connection with each other
perhaps, says the London Chronicle.
| But rats suggest plague, and plague
and war are sometimes bracketed to-
gether as twin scourges Among the
measures the Japanese adopted for ex-
terminating the plague was the ex.
| termination Of rats, a reward of 5
sen about 1 penny being given for
every rat brought to the police sta
ton. The rodents began to arrive in
such large quantities that the police
began to ask what was to be done
with them. To their rescue came
modern Japanese Pied Piper, who said:
81 will relieve you of your rats.
will send to the stations and remove
all the bodies free and save you all
trouble out of gratitude for and adj
miration of the way in which the gov
eminent has grappled with this terri
BILE scourge"
The offer was received with graft
tude, and the rats We're duly collected.
When the Russo-Japanese war broke
out the soldiers who were dispatched
to the bitterly cold northern regions
wanted furs, which are expensive
things, and they could not afford them.
But presently some of the shops dis
played waistcoats lined with nice
soft gray fur at most tempting price,
and the soldiers bought these up in
large numbers and went off to the
front happy and warm. The con-
tractor smiled as he conned his bank
| passbook, remarking, rats have
nice strong skin which works up into
good fur, and they were all carefully
disinfected, and am happy to be able
once more to render a little assistance
to my beloved country"
f. A. Mckenzie special correspondent
Of the New York World with the Japa-
nese army, recently sent to his paper
the following description of scenes on
the Yalu river battlefield:
| Immediately after the great battle Of
May / / crossed over the Yalu into
Manchuria and gazed on the scene Of
the conflict. The battlefield presented
a sickening spectacle, the field hospital
surgeons deity patching up the wound
ed men, who bore their sufferings with
the most heroic stoicism. There a Po-
nsh soldier lay moaning "Meine liebe"
C'My sweetheart'o, not once, but a
hundred times, until near the end,
when the breath went out Of him In
muttered prayer. Then a Russian off,
Ger strove, with set teeth, to suppress
groans as the surgeons raised his shat
tered leg, while a fierce mustached
Cossack, lying wounded on the ground,
raised his clinched fist in agony to
heaven.
The Japanese are showing the great
est kindness to the wounded prisoners.
This is especially noticeable in the field
base hospital, where surgeons even
leave the Japanese "TommieS" to at
tend to the Russians.
Keenly anxious to volunteer for serv-
ice with the Russian army in the far
east, Antonnina Petrova, a nineteen
year-old Russian girl Of extraordinary
beauty, whose parents are both dead,
persuaded the officers Of a regiment
leaving Saratoff for the front to take
her with them, says special cable dis
patch from Moscow to the New York
| American.
After crossing Lake Baikal on foot
In temperature many degrees below
zero she was Informed by the military
authorities at Hardin that she could
not be allowed to take part in the OPP
erations. The young girls position
was now desperate, as she had no mon
ey for her return to Saratoff. Finally,
however she so worked on the officers
feelings that they interceded for her
with the authorities, and she was per-
mitted to join field hospital She still
hopes to reach the fighting line in spite,
Of all obstacles.
When one Of the twelve year men in
Japan was called to the colors he sac
ceeded in placing all Of his children II
the care OF relatives except one 1Ettif
eripI saws fhn OD6oD Chp0r,: Clo Mona
could take her. So, doing what seemed
to him mercy and a duty, he cut her
throat. It is said that the o1Eca7s
praised him for the deed. Accortlin
10 their view, he loved the chi!l -
much that he would not see her sI-fel
but he loved his country more. O.
course he expects to he killed Ill:
farewell to his family VAS Ior 9tevA.
ty. They will boast far mere Of Il
Their who died in battle than Of Il II.
| Their who fought and still lived