The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-07-22
PATRIOTS OF NIPPON.
How Two japanese Spies Met
Their Fate.
FACED DEATH WITH HERoIsM.

omcers OF the General stan Won Ad-
miration and Pity OF Their Execn-
TONERS Requested Their Dying
Gift BE Ised For the Poor wound
ed Among Their Enemies.
i have received from RussiaI sailor
recently returned from Harbin some
hitherto unpublished details 81 file exc
eutlon Of the two Japanese spies ar
rested by some CossaclSs as they were
about to blow up a bridge on the Man
ehurian railroad. writes NJ. PraSdine
in lie Petit Temps
Ny informant is a young man who
was severely wounded during tie irst
bombanlment of Port Arthur He OBJ
tanned permission to 90 to Italy e con
valesce from his wound, but before his
departure lie made short stay with
some officers, relations Of his 4! lar
bin. where he arrived Just at the time
when the Japanese We're arrested, taxi
en- ia the act. condemned ana executed
*You were present at the execution
Of the two Japanese ! asked him.
sAIas! saw them die, answeres
the young sailor
And as | looked AZ him with aston
ishnient lie FASTENED 70 add
DO not take me for an anarchist. l
am, on the contrary. an ardent patriot,
and eagerly longed for the war with
Japan. / ionged ID see the Japanese
exterminated, and / desired that we
might be able to dictate terms Of peace
to them at Tokyo. But Ike all my
comrades, on seeing those two Japan
csc officers die by the bullets Of our
soldiers, courag eously sacrificing their
lives for their country ! could not bur
. think their execution cruel
Were you present At the trialE
Il saw the two spies arrested: ! was
present at the trial and ut the execu-
ton. I can give you all the details q
it, for the dreadful spectacle haunts me
and / cannot forget Is"
And IN half IN hour the wounded
+ officer. pausing only when the pain Of
J his right knee wounded BY the burst
4 Inc Of a japanese shell and from which
. the splnters had not yet been removed
! became too keen, narrated to nie tn'
i following events:
II can give my testimony that whel
!. the TWO prisoners were brought int
! the little room Of the Chinese fansa
y transformed into courtroom By tn
i Hardin council Of war, both the Judge
4 ana the public the latter composed a.
II most exclusively Of officers could no
j avoid manifesting openly their enthus
Is astic admiration for them.
ie .'And indeed, those men were aetl
!. ated by the most noble sentiment
:. They had resolved, as patriots, to max
a use Of any means to assure victory
81 | their side. and. as soldiers, under s.
en- perior orders, they Went 70 meet &c
" tain death. The trial took the ordinal
course. The arguments on either sig
as offered nothing OF interest, the Pr
ID oners having loudly, and not witho
III patriotic pride. assumed the respon'
~ bility Of the crime Of which they we
r. accused. They gave their names a.
~ their titles without the slightest trem
* Of the voice:
ne ".Tchomo Jokoka, forty-fonr years
"a. are. colonel Of the general staff, grad
ated with honors from the militia
high school OF Jeddo said the elder
the prisoners, q short. stout man, WI
eh strong face.
ie Teisko Joklzi. thirty-one years
We age. captain. attached 10 the gener
IN staff said his companion, who VI
he taller and more slender in figure ia;
me the other. with angular features and
Ias very dark complexion. casting a sligt
" disdainfuI glance around the eoul
room.
Buddhist, he added, after N
Of ment's silence.
art ana you, colonel asked the pre-
dent Of the council; YOU are q Z
same religion us your fellow prisoner
@.No. president, | am Christian
pa And observing the establishment n
The duced Oh every one by this decaratl
,eo he fastened to add
ley ".But | am d true Japanese, born
so Japanese parents. Only in my youth
see was captivated by the gentle teaehin
oft Of Christ and ! became a convert
Lutheranism-
Colonel Jok0ka spoke Engllsh' 9
It was subject Of King Edward
18th employee of the Russo-Chinese bar
in Who translated TO the court the dec
600 ratfons of the prisoner Captain Jol
vas interrogated by means Of 9 y
nese Interpreter The accused ~
shown the explosive materials WI
rid had been found upon them. They
the not attempt 10 defend themselves Or
ate deny ii any particular the stateme
Is of the Cossacks who had arrested thC
In The interpreters translated 70 the p
ces onars the military prosecutors spec
the asking the punishment Of death
hanging
Il watched the cpuntenances Of
two men, and | could not observe
OF them the slightest indication Of e
'ast The counsel OF the two Japanese asl
one mat the sentence Of death should
ned commuted TO Imprisonment with b
labor, the accused men having mad
complete confession
eThe two officers remained unmo