New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-18

Headquarters General Nogi assured Mr.. VII
liers that he would never send them into action
again-their work had been done. But he dared
not tell them so, lest they commit suicide NO
wonder. with such spirit animating the rank
and file. that the victory went to Japan Equally
brave We're the forces that captured the Hachl-
Machi. Turban. fort. where the attack was
delivered by means of previous sapping. yet
the lists OF casualties in the two engagements
are significant. One hundred and ffty-four fell
the Turban Hill; $4,000 was the record at
East Ban-u-San.
The Japanese held no monopoly of bravery.
There wore the eighteen indomitable Russians,
driven to bay in a bombproof at this same
Hachi-MachL They refused TO take quarter.
and Gid such execution with their rifles that the
Japanese had ito tear the sandbags from the
traverses and trenches and throw them into the
apertures of the shelter and eventually seal
the enemy up In this veritable shambles with
their dead and dying" Then at East Kikwan
fort, when fifty Japanese had scaled the parapet
and. unsupported. had been driven out again
what there was left OF them-that is what VII
Hers saw:
The skyline OF the fort is broken by tall and stall
SQUAD of Russians-as if on parade An officer
stands forward with flashing sword; he looks down
dots the slope His work is not required here
have passed round and over it and are pressing
against the Chinese wall The officer turns his
remember. In rhythmical order. the men, standing
and b0u Upright n6 seng NO 4 take esr tod
w9 G LOAD and presents eject empty case reload
appreciation cry in Russian. "Karasho!3 'i -,
The Jap" officer by my side echoes it. "Karasho!"
terpreter Of the FIsYentb yis an 's II is
good for Nippon
Distinctive Of the siege of Port Arthur were
the night attacks, searchIights and star bombs
or rockets replacing the sun. So brilliant were
these military fireworks that they dimmed the
moon. which appeared but "a faint slip of silver
in the sky" These searchlights themselves
proved indirectly to be cruel weapons Ten
years ago Archibald Forbes wrote an article on
the impossibiity of succoring the wounded
under the approaching conditions of warfare
This campaign proves his opinion to have been
correct Says Mr.. Villiers
The wounded after action have to be left on
the field with the dead till nightfau. Even then
men to the Tst AID The pc loss Of IN in s
to move them during the day would be appalling.
can stand n up to Their Ell T0sk they have to GFa
the searchiights and when f 9 endish cola White
ray steals near them they have to feign death,
wounded they take by the heels or shoulders and
drag push them down the glacis of the redoubt
that has been the bone of contention
One thing which impressed the author was
the unconcern of the natives. who, behind the
lines indeed. but well within range of the Rus
sian artillery. carried on their harvesting and
went about their daily tasks as if war was
too trivial incident Of life to be noticed He
gives one nights experience:
Last night and through the small hours until
dawn this pandemonium lasted and was noisy
enough to arouse the dead, yet Of all our village
was the only awake and watching. The ham
let lay dark and silent but for the yelpng of the
dogs which were not disturbed by the noise of the
battle that was going on but mile off, but indig-
nant at my ghostlY appearance, when all respect
able folk ought TO be in bed.