The Weiser semi-weekly signal. (Weiser, Washington Co., Idaho) 1904-1911, 1905-01-07
WARS DAhhER SCENES
Grewsonac Sights III the Millet
Fields of Liaoyang Plains.
MEANING OF BATTLE TO RECRUITS

m1AN1H0 VI DAL LAA ~ Al1SAfSAAA
Striking Endurance of a Wounded
Japanexe soIhfer-Ravages of Pa
rfah Dogs - wounded Combatants
Who Were No Longer Enemies,
Disposal of the Dead.
| All the kaoliang, that tall millet with
| its burden of grain at the top like tas-
| seled corn, is being cut low on recent
| battlefelds, writes the special CORE
| spondent of the New York Post from
| Liaoyang, in Manchuria, under the
| date of Oct 4. On coming battlefields
clumps or harvested in towering stacks
lin any design or condition that will
serve to cover Japanese earthworks or
sentries or assist in stealthy infantry
accommodating or disclose the approach
of the enemy. The Chinese farmers
hasten to cut it as the armies dictate,
glad to save some of their crop.
Children no bigger tnan blade of
the stalk, wearing nothing but q pig
tail down their backs and narrow
blue apron depending from the neck in
front, give help with the sickle, and SO
do the elderly women, who have hith-
erto been so fearful of showing them
selves that 1t appeared there were no
women in Manchuria. Strong as any
peasants are these women, delicately
as they move ON the tiny feet which
the men have made them bind for CEN
tnries so they would never run away.
One of them in the plain before LAO
yang came upon PROSTATE Japanese
soldier. He looked dead, but he was
merely in last faint 1t was twelve
days subsequent to the end of the bat
tie. The search parties had not found
him. New recruits passing on their
way to supply the vacant places at the
front were called. They got their first
glimpse of what battle may mean to
an individual.
The Unconscious soldier had been
struck in the thigh by one bullet, and
one tibia had been shattered by an
other. The recruits saw the attempts
he made to bandage and dress his
wounds with the first aids material
which every soldier carries; they saw
the wrappings brown with dried blood.
Bent and broken millet within reach
showed how he had fed himself dur
Ing the twelve days of his painful .iso-
lation. He had eaten the tassels of
grain at the top by pulling them down
to his mouth. Exhausting one spot.
be had only to drag himself foot or
two to be among plenty again. 1t was
the want Of water, of course, which
tortured him most and which finally
took his senses away. After arriving
at the hospital he spoke of holding his
mouth open to catch rain, of setting his
cup for 1t, of making hollow with a
piece of khaki and of tapping dew from
blades OF the kaoliang la the morning.
Yes, his shattered shin had ached, but
lack of water to wet his tongue, that
made him think he must die.
There are worse sight In the kaolianq
1t gives one shudder to see flock OF
rocks settling and circling, and the tail
down way In which pariah dogs-cous-
ms of the Siberian wolf -emerge upon
the pats as you are riding along needs
no Interpretation In the busy days OF
burial many Russians were not placed
very deep. Once in awhile you see a
uniform containing few bones be-
side violated grave The other dav.
as the attaches were being shown the
positions the first army fought for. the
whole party surprised dog Juggling
nard at something. 1t ran, leaping.
ana there lay a poor Cossack, wholly
uncovered, with one trouser torn awav
revealing-well, soldering is not mere.
~ parade through waving flags and |
cheering friends, singing dear songs
or country under beautiful starlight
beside glowing campfires, nor even all
shooting and getting decently shot.
Another episode, which, however. I
cannot describe at first hand. was this
winch comes through General Fuii of /
the huroki army: Several wounded /
men lay on a hillside after night
charge. Six We're Japanese and sew.
en- We're Russian. They saw one an
other and crept together and stretched
themselves side by side to keep warm
One Russian whose hurt was in tba
arm offered to steal down the hin n
water and fill all the canteens. He
nad gone only little distance when
he was shot by comrades who could
not distinguish his uniform Another
ausslan volunteered. He got safely
put OF sight, but he never returned
me Japanese got him. The rest NJ
he men could not walk, SO all Law
quietly In one group, enemies no Ion
yer In the morning they were found
" patrol and cared for in the same
hospital. A''A'e
AFTER the Laoyang battle one missed
ne numerous curling smokes which
isfetofore had risen from a flchtiug
'iace that had been won, One misseS
$50 those tandem couples of soldiers
earring between them OF pole .
saSy box OF ashes There were 40
4ahS DEAD at Liaoyang and Il took
. l'ns 70 Ind them that only Officers