The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-26

the hard ten days fighting and daily
exposure to bursting shells and the
nerve-trying ordeal Of flying shrapnel.
ceedings sne and 'a again came u The nf irving
ordeal Of eventless life in Chinese
houses surrounded by bad smells and
Manchurian filth, and again came &C
ton in the shape of the conflict on the
Sha-ho.
Once more our attaches were well
forward, and once more they underwent
the trial by fire. After the Sha-ho, Kuhn
from home and family after two years
service in the far east, he hurried eager
~ to Japan. His passage was engaged
for San Francisco, and, filled with an
ticipations Of seeing America aonce
again. be was on the very eve OF EN-
barking for home, when cables Gamer
from the department ordering him back
Without a murmury Of disappointment
or complaint he returned to Man
churia, this time being assigned to the
heroic army of Nogi, now we'll nigh
triumphant in their task of breaking
down the defenses about the beleagu-
cred city.
Went Thru the Siege.
For a few weeks Kuhn was with the
Japanese in the trenches, sharing their.
dangers and exposures that he might
study their systems and some day turn
them to the profit Of his government
and his people in far-away America
| Cold by night, shells and bullets by
day were cheerfully met and bravely
faced as he made sketches or photo
graphs of parallels, gun emplacements.
! Long, hard rides under fire from di-
vision to division were eagerly accepted
that he might be in time to see and
study for us the methods Of the Japan
ese in mining and then storming almost
unassailable Russian parapets. From
the hilltops and now from the trenches
he beheld the Japanese assail and
carry Kee- kwan, Erlungshan and thee
ences served to fill out the report which
will one day be filed among the rusty
archives of the war department in
Washington. When Port Arthur fell
our attache was one of the first over
j the line, and the roar of the siege guns
, had scarcely died away when hr Was
Il at his customary work photographing,
and where the Japanese shells had done
their dreadful work.
While the world was ringing with the
stories OF Japanese heroism and CORE
, spondents were writing books Of the
Japanese war, the simple, unostenta
tlouS American OH1cer was shut up In
a deserted Russian house, working night
and day compiling an account Of what
he had seen and learned at the siege
!. Saw Fighting at Mukden.
Weeks passed, and once again the
mutterlngs Of great battle were heard
I around Mukden, and once again The
!; American: officer took the field, and
/ after hard trip through the winter
!. SHOWS of. Manchuria in a Japanese
i troop train, and harder trip on horse.
4 back over the Mukden plain, now
strewed with the dead of great battle
4 he joined his army for the last heroic
1 days fighting north Of the Manchurian
4 capital. Always pushing to- the front
4 he witnessed the hard-fought Russian
rear-gqard action, and on the last day
4 he lay behind a wall Of Chinese vii.
lage, watching the retreat ofsthe hard:
4 put Russian regiments as they struggled
II back toward Hardin. One hun bred feet
4 away from him the Japanese batteries
belched their rain, of she'll on the Rus
slams, while a few hundred wards in
front of him the Japanese infantry lay
under the crushing fire Of the Russian
\ guns.
I All day long the Russian guns, defend
mel on the village, where Kuhn lay be
hind his mud wall, ever watching and
studying the DEVELOPMENTS. Almost al
his side the well loved, and much hon.
ored friend and aid Of Nogi, Major Va