The Florida star. (Titusville, Fla.) 1880-1917, 1905-01-27
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seribed by Richard H. Lissie.
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After having been out at the front
for two weeks watching tia Japanese
shoot holes through our Russians Il
Was very interesting while resting In
Eukden 20 watch bow the holes were
plugged up. aays Rieharu r. Little the
Asnehurtan correspondent % the Chi
cage News
Dx. Richard Butz IL the hero Of this
narsstive-that h. II it h proper to call
q man who has not waded through
fields Of slaughter q hero. He II one
Of the great stumbling blocks that lie
In the japanese path To victory They
laws Of war and medical sciences the
man should be dead and another name
added Go the sum total Of the victims
Of japanese prowcss- Instead OF that.
Dr. Butz receives the man into his
hospitaI. finds the bullet and throws Il
away, patches up the works. and the
man Eets well and goes back 20 the
firing line.
DIR. Butts has cared for sixfy-nYe men
shot In the braln- The modern high
velocity small bore steel bullet gives
the skillfui surgeon q chance. OF these
stxty-nve men operated on by Dr. Butx
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through the brain These were easy TO
treat But others mad severe fractures.
caused by fragments Of shell smashing
the bones Of the skull and driving
pieces into the brain The bullets from
the shrapnel shells also make bad
wounds. They are Of slow velocity
and instead of whistliug clean through
Q man when they hit, soaring with their
intense heat the edges Of the wound.
they break and fracture where they
enter and lodge In the body. Yet OF
these sixU.nve difficult cases DIR. Butt
has lost only ave.
was down at the hospital the other
day and took G picture OF n man whom
the japanese had killed In - pains
taking and thorough a manner rs any
body can kill a man and still have
some regard for the Geneva convention
They had drilled a ride bullet straight
through his heart The Russian burial
party took the word Of the Japanese
for II. They digged the grave and put
up n wooden cross at the head Of Il.
and the priest came and granted abso-
tuition and went away. and the burial
party sat down and waited for the
man who was shot through the heart
20 quit smoking cigarettes and fold his
pale hands over his breast. The dy-
ing soldier smoked cigarettes until the
burial party had none left. and then
they carried him into a house. 50 they
could get some ten and catch a few
hours OF sleep while the man WIN was
shot through the heart could die when
he got good and ready.
That nsght-this Was on the fourth
day OF the hsttle Of the Sha River-the
japanese opened q shell IRE on the
town. aud all the wounded were hur-
rie<ily gathered up and carted on to
Mukden. Along with the rest went the
man who was shot through the heart.
never thinking to tell the litter bearers
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grave had been ixed and the wooden
cross put up and that he WIS exported
hack Arriving At Mukden. the wOsnd-
I'll were sorted out, aud all who could
be classified as desperate cases" were
taken over to DIR Buga's hospital
A q desperate case the man who
was shot through the heart stood At the
very top Of the list. The young sur
yeon who did the sorting out dicG't
know whether the man would live long
enough To lie put into the ambulance.
but when be saw the patient had =
hole through his heart he said, This
win tickle old BurT 70 death; It's Just
his Kind" So be sent the man along
He was carried very carefully Into the
hospital. aud the doctor MAS sent for
I saw the man with = bullet hole
through his heart two weeks after the
shooting occurred He Was not in his
bed. and we had 20 hunt for him all
over the hospital and nnA.iy rounded
him up at THE far end. where he was
foregztherinE with some ~ his reSi-
menf who were also convAlescent-
He came back and sat for bis picture
90 condition thsf he would ~ permit
ted 20 put his uniform on In a few days
more and 90 downtown After ! saw
shas man I 90 longer wondered WY
the japanese sncceSs was only mor1en-
tary. What's the usc Of killing men
when Or ButE oyerhAuls them and
patches them Up and makes them good
a. new.
Dc. Ruts. when ~ hOUe IN 81 Peters
eurr. n at the bead of THE largest hos
pssnl m the Russian capital He was
born I'm the Baltic provinces % Russia
ana German ~ss bis oethe< toogoe
EIn rn. e.tnrafrf % Germany and IN