Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-07
WARS AWFULCARNAGE
STACKS OF BLOODY CORPSES
MARK FIELDS OF BATTLE.
Terrific Hand-to-Hand Fighting for a
Fortnight-Dead Bodies Used
for Barbados.

cablegram from Gen. Rennenkampff's
headquarters, Oubenepusa, March &, MORN
ing, says: The japanese again attacked
Tupintai and other positions on the extreme
left at $50 o'clock Sunday evening, but
were reDulsed.
Along the whole front there has been a
scattering rifle fire, but at this moment it
appears to be stacking.
Attacks by the japanese yesterday near
Tupintai and on the forces of General Liu-
bavin were repulsed with heavy losses to
the Japanese. The Russian left has been
advanced slightly and several of the Jap
anese trenches have been taken after fights
with the bayonet
Saturday afternoon and night were COM
paratively quiet, there being only an occa-
sional scattering artillery fire in progress
The rest is very welcome to the soldiers of
this division, who have repulsed 100 attacks
within the fortnight, and who have been
engaged in continual fighting during that
length of time. The Russian artillery forces
and the Japanese guns have been changing
ground continuously.
Many Wounded Borne Away in Carts.
The road northward is crowded so far as
the eye can reach by a continuous file of
two-wheeled Chinese carts full of Russian
"ouhueN, tlie UeSl testimony Oh the VdlOF
with which the army of the east, fighting
continuously for fortnight has contested
every inch of the ground over which it has
been compelled by superior numbers to re-
tire.
Each cart bears from three to five wound
ed men, whose exhaustion is almost too
utter for them to feel pain. Scarcely
groan or cry is heard-not even the means
OF the dying-only the dismal creak of the
rude wheels and the nf
are audible. Most of the wounded have
their heads covered with Chinese blankets
or DIRTY coats, stiff with coagulated blood
hiding wan and dirty faces distorted with
pain, sunken eyes and expanded nostrils
Here and there is seen a cart with two
wounded men between whom is a cornse
when with every jolt pounds against the
helpless living comrades of the man an
whose face death had sealed the distortion
OF unbearable agony.
Valley of Death Between Armies.
The valley in front of the Russian nosi
'ioh mas become valley of death Corpses
strew the debatable ground from which
heither side can remove its dead
Again and again the Japanese charged
down the slope and up the hill. Again
and again the Russians counter attacked.
Trying to gain possession of 1.-The hill with
the tower" No quarter was asked for or
given by either side. The enmity ceased
torn open by shrapnel or bayonet. essay
ing another shot with their last breath
mere slts japanese upon a stone
moments pause for rest having stretched
MN out into eternity.
There lie two foes with bayonets sheathea
in each others breasts
EVERYWHERE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Barricade of Fallen japanese.
For two days the Russians had been con-
centrating a heavy artillery fire on 1.-The
hill with the tower stopping the japanese
sapper work. AT 2 O'Clock in the morn
ing Sunday the Russian skirmishers heard
a noise at the hill with the tower" Creep
ing forward they discovered that the Japa-
nese We're heaping up corpses as defenses
The Russian field artillery Immediately
opened fire and forced cessation of the
work
At dawn the Japanese attacked the Rus
sian positions near Obenepusa. The at
tackers were scarcely recognizable as
valiant japanese SO mechanically did they
move forward, and with undyng persist
ence, attack only to be thrown back. They
repeated this at 10. O'Clock in the morning,
after preparatory artillery bomba rdment
and reached the Russian trenches where a
bayonet fight ensued.
japanese Used a Device.
AT the crucial moment General Alieff,
commanding the vanguard, arrived on the
scene with two companies, and turned the
scale against the japanese. Among the
wounded was Lieutenant Colonel Hrostit-
sky of the general staff, who, nevertheless
remained at the front
Toward evening the fight sackened
The Japanese employed an ingenious
scheme to deceive the Russian artillery
whose shells, though having the ranges,
appeared to be exploding in the wrong
direction. The officers We're about to re-
sort to experimental firing, when skirmish-
erS reported that the Japanese were eX-
ploding small mines and even throwing
dirt in the air with spades to effect a de-