The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-11-09
ny WIN H. Brill.
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Whlch NAV appeal 20 MS huuichlck=
ness. or we'll tanned dog skins
which will keep him warm during
tho cold DAYS and nights
WOMEN SHuN THE STREETS.
The most noticeable thing Ia n
Chinese town Is the almost entire
absence If women from the streets
You may walk through Lao Yang
for hours and never see "A woman.
or n you do. she will be old and
ugly. II. by chance. you see one
who Is teas than so years old have
seen two In a fortnight goes
by as rapidly ua possible with her
eyes ayerted The Mauehurian WON
80 do not hlod their feet but they
wear frigotful head dref"s aoc
really. aInu seeing one or two Of
tnsn pop wouldn't care n yau
pcycr ioiw another
LAO YANG. 81 % 81 There
see on tn Do s-noo 90 soabps oCnglun
regarding what the japanese really
did before and after they eaptarcd
this town. II Big. oeso l0,ia that
tbs IaUsapess abcla.d The Chiospss
city AND that they looted u after
SQUddh Maj bur- al toka.0o state
i5aldmus b. snsi nsts trae.
During the boon TAI amopt - the
Russians. who had retired almost 20
the city walls. "a few skslla dropped
into the Chimes city watched
this boon barsment fruo, /. point Of
NantAspe and ! can say Of my own
knowledge that I did rot see a shell
fired frus q npn belonging 20 either
the Necnqss or Fourth army fall In
the city The Russian city was
shslled and sholled hard. because
there tb-s russians we're making a
stand The railway station. where
the troops we're crtralrtnE Tor their
retreat merit n was sheIled With the
blsRssd runs the japanese had But
The ChiueHr city vas not Hbellea
and if IS wuadcr. eunslderiASg how
close 20 the walls the Russian bat
tories Wera. that more shells did
not drop IN the town
As ID Wa t0i Chinese were killed
and about ais were wounded Of
which number 20 have since died Of
their wounds These were practie-
ally all near the east and south
walls Of the town when they we're
wounded 4 great number ~ the
. wounds we're slight aud we're evil
IDENTITY caused by spent rifle bullets
Some % the wounds we're caused
By Russian bullets. the difference
in size making the bullets easily
recognizable when extracted.
DID LITTLE LooTING.
That there was some luutinF By
the japanese soldiers there can be
no denying II was go small ho.-
ever that IL d hardly worthy OF the
nasae ~ leotisg The soldiers baa
been FOR five days With little food
except unenoked rice and they we're
hungry. when they got iato toNB
they bsa6n short work ~ amy chick
Z BA % daeka that came their way
They cuss man spscred food wherever
they could find q. bat they touched
rothiRg flse Both foreiepcra and
Chinese have told me that while
the tows vas full of valuable goods
the Jara@ees took and destroyed
nothing bat food II IL probably
morally Wro@e f0q soldiers 90 do
even that. but the toodinr ~ fowls
seems 70 ke the usual PreroEatiFe
% a soldier the world over As
roeao "a the officers found ont That
ihas lsoda bsps we're cora Eoandeerisg
food they p@t R~ptrtea at all the
gates Of the town and no soldier
vas allowed TO enter the city unless
be was provided with n special pass
I have followed the japanese
army more thar ESQ miles from
Dairy to Lino Yang have seen
absolutely no evidences 81 destruc.
ttoN % property nor have heard
before nf ore complaint that the
. Japan.ea. Rad taken anything hoW
ever small. without paying for H.
/ CORES psada dents with the First army
tel} the "a pa~ thing All the cor
rcspoo dents ard military attaches
have remarked dose rs Of times on
I the wonderful freedom from footing
propcnaltiee shown by The japanese
soldiers
LAO YANG's GREAT PAGODA.
The nosst lrterestins. ard BY far
The most Article feature % Lao
Yang. r. the great psga.ia which
stands inst outside the city wall to-
wards thu railway station. n r. a
pnaaD.ive affair. probably two or
tn roe hundred feet hleh and 81 a
psscHl bar sae ~ and . style ~ archi-
tecsarr which have never pesH be-
fore. II Is really AZ artistic affair
and its evident extreme aye makes
n o{ interest About n quarter of
the way from the bottom 20 the top
~ the towsr ts o circle Of inches In
which ore life figures OF Budd
Ia. seated iB an attitude ~ Ineai-
satioR co 8 fufus blossom Between
these inches are standing figures
The figures are all ~urn With axe
and the sop Of the to%sr itself ls
erumbllna Tn p9Soda hss very
Interesting story. Ok. rather. ionr
sspri s-s
The ngsp leroad IL 70 tho effect
that ahsylst 500 years Ego there ar
rived In Is@a Vars from Tibet q