Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1904-11-23

japanese Tribute to Brave Musco-
wife Omcer-Exploit of One of the
Cars Midshipmen.
While the world militant Is full of
praise for General Anatole Stoessers
desperately heroic defense Of Port Ar
thur, too little Is said of the magnifi-
cent and devoted share that Nine.
Stoessel has had in that work. says u
special cable dispatch from st. Peters
burg to the New York American and
eddy the hero Of Port Arthur. Nine.
Stoessel is surely its heroine. while the
garrison calls her Its saint.
When General Stoessel was called TO
serve in the far east his wife followed
him. When the siege of Port Arthur
Of leaving the invested fortress, and
from the time the first gun was fired
she took on herself the direction of the
ambulance service. Her work in that
post was so splendid that soon the sol
diers came to regard her as L provi-
dence, a protectress with whose life
was linked that of the besieged city.
And so il came to pass that when on
the Sd Of August last Mime. Stoessei.
while ministering to wounded soldier.
was seriously injured in the shoulder
by the fragment of Il shell Il general
grief, mingled with fright. was spread
throughout the citadel. The feeling OF
sorrow and dread was even expert
enced ut st. Petersburg. and was i'll
tensified by the receipt OF General
Stoessers pathetic message that Port
Arthur would be his tomb, Il message,
IL is said. which was written by the
bedside of his stricken wife.
But. wonderful to say, five days aft
er being wounded-that is, the Sth of
August-Mme. Stoessel quilted the
hospital and Immediately made a tour
OF the forts to reassure the garrison.
Struggled letters received at st. Pc
tersburg describe this visit as being
one OF the most touching incidents of
the siege. Men wept. while others
knelt down by companies and kissed
the hem of the gallant woman's dress
as though she were a saint.
A Russian correspondent with Cen
eral Orloff's force at the battle of
Liaoyang gives the following pic
turesque account of the feeding Of the
Russian soldiers during battle, says
the London Standard:
Hunger was written OH every mans
face, Il starving, wolfish hunger,
which intensified the ferocious eX-
pressions of the dirty, tired and angry
men.
AT o'clock q deafening roar rang
all along the trenches. 1 turned my
glasses TO look for charging Japs, but
my ear soon distinguished not the
martial IRA but "A triumphant shout
Of 'Khleb. khleb, khleb brea6" 1
don't think If the commander in chief
had ridden up on his white horse he
would have got such n reception.
The commissariat men. with wag-
ons and baskets, came forward bravely
through the bursting Japanese shells.
Bread. bread, roared the soldiers.
And every one of them looked happy
and amused as children with Christ
mas toys. All snatched eagerly, and /
can never forget the horrible laugh
and scramble which began when
shell knocked a wagon to bits. killing
the driver and strewing the black
hunks all over the ground. The SOL
diers, conscious OF nothing but hunger.
jumped from their positions and struS-
gled. buffeted and butted one another
THE dead man in the middle Of the
bread was not even looked at. Then
another shell fell. 1t Did not explode.
But nobody save the soldier whose
foot il had smashed to pulp paid the
slightest attention. and not until every
man had secured his dinner was the
shell removed"
The Russo-Japanese war abounds In
romance and deeds of chivalry. says
special cable dispatch from Tokyo TO
the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Jap
anese are by no means slow to recog-
nize valor in an enemy, as il wit
messed by an incident that occurred
several days ago.
Commandant Oyama, attached TO the
stan of General Oku. wrote to his fam
lily at Tokyo of a touching scene which
he observed during one Of the recent
engagements. The captain Of a COM
pany of Siberian sharpshooters order
ed his men to charge and dashed in
front OF them. only TO become aware
I'm few moments that not one of them
had moved.
He kept on. however. and when just
I'm front Of the hostile column OF Japa-
nese he took his revolver from the hol-
ster and put a bullet through his brain
IvnmedfafeIv The commanding officer Of