Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-07


can reach, by a continuous file of two
wheeled Chinese carts full of Russian
wounded, the best testimony of the
valor with which the army of the east,
fighting continuously for fortnight,
has defended every inch Of the ground
over which it has been compelled by
superior numbers to retire. Each cart
bears from three to five wounded men,
whose exhaustion is ain ost too great
for them to feel pain. Scarcely a groan
or cry is heard--not even the means of
the dying only the dismal creak of the
rude wheels and the thud of the ponies
hoofs are audible. Most of the wound
ed have their heads covered with Chi
nese 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 a corpse which. with
every jolt pounds against the helpless
living comrades OF the man on whose
face death has sealed the distortion of
unbearable agony.
The valley in front of the Russian
position has become a valley of death.
Corpses strew the debatable ground
from which neither side can review it's
dead.
Again and again the Japanese charg-
ed 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 only in death-thc
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shrapne OF bayonet essaying another
shot with the last breath.
Here sits a japanese upon stone.
moments pause for rest having
stretched him out into eternity
There lie two foes with bayonets
sheathed in each others breasts.
Everywhere are corpses! corpses!
corpses! For two days the Russians
had been concentrating heavy artll-
lery fire on "the hill with the tower,
stopping the Japanese sapper work. AT
2 o'clock in the morning yesterday
the Russian skirmishers heard a noise
at 'the hill with the tower" Creep
ing forward they discovered that the
Japanese were heaping up corpses as
defenses. The Russian field, batteries
Immediately opened fire and forced
cessation Of the work.
At dawn yesterday the Japanese at
tackled the Russian positions near
Oubenepusa. The attackers were scar
cely recognizable as valiant Japanese.
so mechanically did they move for
ward and, with undying persistence at
tack only to be thrown back. They
repeated this at 10 in the morning after
preparatory artillery bombardment
and reached the Russian trenches.
where bayonet fight ensued. At the
| crucial moment General Aleff, COM
manding the van guard, arrived on the
scene with two companies and turned
the scale against the Japanese. A
mong the wounded was Lieutenant
Colonel Hrostchky, Of the general staff,
who nevertheless remained at the
front.
| Toward evening the fight slackened.
The Japanese employed an ingen-
ious scheme to deceive the Russian ar
tillery whose shells, tho having the
ranges, appeared to be exploding in
the wrong direction. Officers were a.
bout to resort to experimental firing
when skirmishers reported that the
japanese were exploding small mines
and even throwing dirt in the air with
spades to effect a deception.