The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-19
By Frederick Palmer. Golfers Correspondent


lns down the river. Where it burst
you could not telL The solitary horse
man rode back again. Some reserves
nearby were formed in line and
marched away portatiou trains
ahd soldiers or fatigue. and an Occa-
4iolai oHlceF, could Be seen coming and
gong, uhlie the roofs of Win covered
Whatever activity existed there
Ever this is The Land OF the Morn
ing Calm. where the stiIi cold of night
breaks into the stiIl warmth Of day.
AS / counted the seconds from the
time OF the Tigers Tail gun-fire till
we heard it's report (in order 20 judge
the distance). I could hear no sound
in this area where the two armies
faced each other except the ticking
OF my watch Directly from the cover
OF the Tigers Tail two companies of
COssacks rode out widely depioyed.
Ihey were fair mark. too fair a
mark. The japanese are not so naive
in the art of war as to disclose their
gun positions on such slight tempta-
u0n. The japanese gunners sit and
wait Where their guns are no for
eigner knows Where some of the
Russian guns are We learned before
The day was over.
Just opposite Win itself a number
OF japanese engineers were building
bridge over 10 Ranshi, They went
eH+AA ltF4t N tLh Aii g. ll-A4llAA-ri N clIs
as If their task was the most natu-
raj and commonplace thing in the
world. They crossed back and. forth
in boats with timbers, and they laid
pianks with seeming uncouceTu, as seen
through the glasses, when doubtless
they were making every minute count
1t Is distance that gives perspective
The doubts or worries of the bridge
builders old not occur TO the specta-
tors on the heights, who saw simply
so many moving figures, ascertaiued
their object, and passed 90 other things,
Either the Russian had TO unmask
some Of his batteries or allow them TO
make Roadway, He acted ON his de-
cisi0n as TO which was the lesser of
the two evils with a burst Of shrap-
uel which made the bridge builders
take 10 cover. That was the work of
few mOmeuts-au incident of war
fare. So was the diversion Of the Rus
sian batterys attention 10 the town
where circles of blue smoke from burst
ing shrapuel hung hCeciiy in the air
and then were blown away, and the
bits of iron that rained I'm the streets
formed the first souvenirs Of the great
land conflict that is TO come.
AIr. Palmer wrote his description of
the battle OF the Ialu i'm three parts
the first describing the crossing of the
river, which took place April 30; the
second, describing the battle of May
7 and the third, probably d summing
up of the victory The following let
ter dated Antuug. May 3D. is the sec
Oud one OF this series. The first let
Ter has not yet reached this office ai-
though III was undoubtedly mailed be-
fore or an the same time as the one
we are now printing as Mr.. Palmer
refers To DO iu the dfth line of the first
.H.N .." i ID
"The account Of the one ] have already
sent This first letter was either held
zap by the Japanese military censor art
er leaving Mr. Palmers hands OF
failed 20 catch the same steamer which
brought the other correspondence 1t
viii be published as soon as it reaches
Autung, May g.
We had expected that the battle
would come with the crossing. but the
two were entirely distinct. The cross
ing took place one day (April BOD and
the battle occurred on the next MAY
I'D The account of the one L have
already sent. Draw a line appruNi-
mately north and south through Win,
and both banks 20 the east were al
ready i'm possession of the japanese
ON the night of the Both. Opposite WI
ju the Al river joins its waters 10 those
Of the Talu. On its bank the right
flank of the japanese rested at the.
end of the first days movement. All
that night troops were crossing into
China tin morning found Korea with
out the army that had been a self
invited guest for many weeks
If the spectator on this famous list
of May had some idea of what he was
going TO see, the yagueness of that
idea added 20 the interest He knew
that the day before had been one OF
the great days of his life. and eX-
pected that this would be another.
Rising az dawn becomes second ma
ture when you are with an army. As
I rode through the South gate of the
city, Captain OEada. who has the COR
respondents in charge. looked at his
watch and asked If the others were
close behind He was a little worried,
like man who has guests TO dim
ueT There was TO be charge iU
as exactly set as that for the rising
of a theatre curtain. This charge. even
in a period of long range rifles, we We're
90 see as distinctly as a football game
II there were parts of the play that
were obscure, SO there are when Yale
and Harvard struggle for the pig
skin.
The BLUR above Wiju was no longer
forbidden to the correspondent Lift /
iue vour glasses Co see what new tab /
leaU This ever prepared aTmy-tbat I
shows you nothing tin &c is finished /
had in store for YOU, mo- glance was
wasted ON Tigers hin. which rises out
of the rivers bed 20 a height of a /
thousand feet or more. It's sides are
PERCEPTIONS On a first thought il I
seems an impregnable position of de- /
Tense. But d Infantry could not storm
these steep rOck-ribbed ascents. no /
more could infantry escape down them. 4
TO take Tigers hil the japanese had 3
only TO march around TT. For a short 4
time the Russians had a mountain gun
posted there After firing a few shots j
this was withdrawn. In the dark ages
OF Europe q robber baron would have ,
built his castle Oh such am eminence .
and dehed aud ruled all the country
round. In thls- conflict Do was in the /
center uf am artillery duel with shells I
flying about its ribs. but none fired "a D
it or from f. ON the other side OF +
Tigers hill there Isl q sandy bottom
and the Al river. d0Wing between
western side of the Al the high bluffs 4
With the broken skyline above and the /
stretch IF river sand below. continue
tiL they disappear in the haze -Four
or i've miles from the mouth of the
81 are the white walls of "a little vie
lage Chiu Lien cheug From this Yil-
lage runs the main highway toward
Feng Wang Cneng and L-ioyang, which
the armies must follow
This then was the position of the
Russians 81 no bad evacuated the broad
sandy islands iu The river below With
two days before They had formed 0n
the road The ease with which the
japanese had crossed on the previous
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