The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-07-05
The Military Hospitals at Toxic as
Seen by O Russian.

NJ. ". krashevsky, who is acting as
war correspondent of the Russkoye
Slovo, sends that journal a
highly interesting description of the
Japanese Red Cross. He says:
II was near the military hospital in
Toxic. when my way was blocked by
the crowds standing shoulder to shoul-
der along the quay, for a transport
with men wounded before Port Ar.
thur was expected. The crowd was
silent in its expectancy, and scarcely
a voice was heard. LET the foreigner
through; let the foreigner through,
said my guide, and even at such @
solemn moment the people stepped
aside courteously to let me pass to the
hospital. The long, sad procession
soon cameinto sight. All the woun-
ded wore white blouses; only few of
them walked, aud they had been
wounded in the hand or head. Most
OF them were carried in jinrikishas,
and their feet and bodies were in
bandages, while about fifty of them
were carried in litters. The faces of
the latter men were concealed, for my
guide told mesahey were the severess
cases, and in Japan it is the custom
to cover the face of man wounded
severely, 80 that the people may not
see his sutferings. Nearly every man
borne in the litters had the lower part
OF his body in bandages, and all of
them looked as if they were in the
last stages of consumption, for they
had been 80 long in hospital at Dalny,
| was interested greatly in the crowd
as the terrible procession passed
through it; there were no shouts, no
tears, only heavy oppressive silence,
and on every face one could read sym
pathy and horror. I saw that look of
sadness everywhere; it came from the
sight of so many youths MANNED for
ever. The war is terribly popula. in
Japan, but these trains of wounded
men bring home to the people all the
horrors of warfare.
"Seven hundred rounded men had
arrived and the hospital taking them
in was q central point, whence every
man was distributed among the va
rioqs institutions Of the Red Cross or
in private hospitals aud houses, It
took only fifteen minutes to register
the 700 wounded men; there was no
red tape, aud all was done very
promptly. I followed 'tke largest
group Of wounded until We reached q
large, three.storied building, on the
front Of which was q GROSS. with the
letters r. c. My guide disappeared
into the Office, and returned at once
With the permission for me to visit
the hospital. The Japanese are very
glad to exhibit their perfect Euro
psan civilisation;' in their own
words, they are passing in this war
their examination to be accepted as
first class country.
" when tho wounded have been
taken, in, one Of the surgeons will
take the gentleman round and show
him everything said an attendant.
The surgeon, who spoke excellent
English, was NOSE agreeable. I was
in the biggest Of the three Red C.ess
hospitals in Toxic. It made the best
Impression on me, for it was mass Of
light and air, with marvellous clean
liness. 'You will perhaps notice that
the ceilings ate'lower than they are in
the model hospitals 10 Europe, but
we Japanese are smaller in size,'
said the surgeon; the height Of the
rooms is madeiin proportion to. our
stature | Observed Eve operating