Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-24
ECHOES FROM THE WAR
Extraordinary Scene When tho
 Russians Left Port Arthur.
TRIBUTE FROM JAPANESE SOLDIER

Couplet to His S0vereign-Ingeniou
 Fire at the Russian Fleet In Port
 Arthur Was Guided.
 A correspondent of the London Times thus describes the departure of the Russians from Port Arthur for Dalny after the surrender:
 Then occurred a scene which those who witnessed 1t will never forget and will ever remember with shame and disgust. Even third class carriages are scarce on the Dalny-Port Arthur line and one has to be content to make the journey in open trucks. but on this occasion there was saloon for women and children. Directly the general and his wife had entered the train one expected to see the women and children led forward and assisted into the remaining vacant seats. But no, the crowd of generals and officers pushed forward and entered the car riages, pushing past the women and children without paying the slightest regard for them. Soon every single carriage was packed with these gentle men, and the women and children were left on the platform sitting on their luggage.
 The indignation of every foreigner present and every Japanese was in- stantly aroused by this last exhibition of callousness and brutality. They treat their women like so many beasts was the comment of one. Some of the station officials and the Japanese off cers intervened and assisted the help less ones into the most empty of the open trucks, which were already nearly full of the officers servants, who, talk ing the cue from their masters. were not going to wait for the women and children to be seated first. Some of the women found seats in the trucks intermingled with the dirty, common soldiers and the luggage of the officers in the closed carriages.
 "One beautiful widow whose hus- band had been killed in the siege, whose very appearance one would have thought might have aroused spark of dormant gallantry in the breast of one of the czar's chosen warriors, was left wandering about and would have missed the train had not General No gi's aid-de-camp, Captain Matsuada, cleared out some of the soldiers and found room for her in truck"
 The national ideal of Nippon for many, many centuries has been the union of the soldier and the scholar in one A man who Is brave, but at the same time is not cultured and gentle, Is very far from commanding the admi- ration of his countrymens. EheSgentle flower of culture alone is not aNfieient for the making of an ideal man to our way of thinking, says a Japanese sol dier in Success Magazine for April.
 It was the historic night of the 26th of May, on the hill slopes of the Nan shan. We had driven the Russians down the hillside. The Nippon army bivOuacked upon the battlefield atop of the Nanshan. Campfires flickered up- on as sad and bloody field of battle as one could possibly see. An officer who had missed comrade was search ing over the battlefield for bis lost friend. He had wandered long far into the night At length he came upon two soldiers who were trying to bury the remains of a heroic dead man. As the light of his lantern fell upon the life less body the officer, who had been wandering up and down the field of carnage, was electrified by the discov- cry of the remains of his old comrade. Without a word he brushed aside the two privates who were about to put the body into its last resting place. Around the forehead of the dead there was piece of white cloth stained with blood. The officer who had been search ing united the cloth. At first 1t ap- peared like bit of innocent towel, but when the officer shook it out in the light of his lantern there fluttered upon the night wind the national flag, with the round, red sun of Nippon dyed in the center. There was upon the flag something besides the sun. In spite of the stains of blood one had little trou- ble in making out the lines of a classic couplet. It was written with ink of rusty red. Unquestionably 1t was writ ten with blood. The dead soldier must have written it with his own blood be- fore going into action. The couplet read:
 Forever shall we guard thy stand ard. O sovereign prince. even if this our life shall vanish with the dews of the morrow.'
 Captain \. o. von Essen. the com mander of the battleship Sevastopol, which was sunk in Port Arthur harbor. thus described to a representative of the Scientific American the macner in which the Japanese gunners got the range on the vessels in the harbOr:
 Before the Japanese captured Two Hundred and Three Meter hill the hits they matse upon the ships were due to indirect or high angle fire. in which the gunners could not see the ships. The aiming was largely guesswork. for the Japanese did not command any height from which they could see the vessels Nevertheless the fire for awhile was so intelligently directed as to make it eyi-