The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-09-09
ECHOES FROM The WAR
How Japanese Patriot Assist
ed His Country:
PITIFUL YALU BATTLE SCENES.

| CossacL Raised CIipched Fist In
Agony to Heaven. while a Polish
Soldier Lay Moaning For His Loved
One-Russian Girls Kcenfiess tu
=, Fight-Jnpancse Fathers Sacrifice
Franks Played on Cxnr.
Rats and soldiers do not seem to
haze much connection with each other
perhaps. says the London xhronicle.
but rats suggest plague, and plague
and war are sometimes bracketed to-
gethcr as twin scourgeS. Among the
measures the Japanese adopted for ex-
terminating the plague was. the ex-
termination of rats, q reward of 5
sen Wbout l penny being given for
every rat brought to the police sta
ton. The rodents began to arrive in
such large quantities that the police
beSa" To ask what was to be done
with them. To their rescue came
modern Japanese ried Piper, who said:
Il 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 ad-
miration of the way in which the gov-
ernmcnt has grapplcd with this terri
bic Scourgc."
Tie offer was received with graft
tudc, and the rats were duly collected.
When the Russo-Japancse war broke
out the soldiers who were dispat tched
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 n nice
soft gray fur ut a most tempting price,
ana 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
paSSDook. rcmarking. Rats have q
nice strong skin which works uD into
IL good fur, and they We're all carefully
dlsinfccted, and am happy to be able
once more to render little assistance
to my beloved country"
+. y. Mckenzie, special correspondent
of the New York World with the Japa-
the following description Of scenes on
the lalu river battlefield:
Immediately after the great battle Of
May ! | crossed over the Yalu into
Manchuria and gaZcd on the scene OF
the conflict The battlefield presented
sickening spectacle, the field hospital
surgeons deftly patching up the wound
Ell men, who bore their sufferings with
the most heroic stoiciSm. There u Po-
llSh soldier lay moaning "AIeine liebe'
C'My swcetheart'D, not once, but q
hundred times, until near the end,
when the breath went out of him In
muttercd prayer Then Russian Off
Ger 3lrove, with set teeth, TO suppress
groanS as the surgeons raised his shat
tered leg, while Il fierce mustached
Cosshck. 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 sery.
Ice with The Russian army in tie far
east Antonnina PctrOva, Il nineteen
E"ar-o!d RUSSIAN girl of extraordinary
beauty, whose parents are both dead,
persuaded the officers Of II regiment
leaving Saratoif for the front to take
her with them. says special cable dis
patch from Moscow TO the New York
American.
After crossing Lake Baikai on foot
In temperature many degrees below
zero she was Informed by the military
authorities at Harbin that she could
not be allowed to take part in the op-
erationS. The young girls position
was now desperate, as size had no mon
cY FOR Eer return to Saratolf Finally,
however, she so worked on the officers
Feelings that they interccdcd for her
with the authorities, and she was per
mittcd to join field hospital. She still
hopes to reach the fighting line in spite
of all obstacles.
Wien one of the twelve year, men I'm
Japan was called to the colors he sue
cceded in placing all OF his children in
the care OF relatives except one little
Slfi, says the London Chronicle. None
could take her. SO, doing what seemed
10 MIN Il mercy and duty, he cut her
throat 1t IS said that the officers
praised him for the deed. According
10 thclr view, lie loved the child so
much that he would not see her suffer,
but he loved his country more. OF
course he expects to be killed His
farewell to his family was for eterni-
ty They will boast far more of ia
ther who died in battle than of ia.
thcr who fought and still lived.
The imperial encourage at st. Peters
burg has lately hnen snnnhnliund hs.