The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-04

- on which lay, dead and dying. many of the men of the regiment which naa gone before. The Colonel, Takasasl sent back a report that It was no feasible. The Brigade General lchin- oke rerlied hotiy that one regiment was enough to take one battery, Taka- raRi stepped out of the rav1ne. Tn which he had been seeking shelter, at the head of his command. Before ne had been marching, as colonels usual Iv do. in the reAr. Now. he leaped forward up the slope, out in front or his men. A dozen paces from the ra- vine he fell with four bullets through his breast. The Lieutenant Coionei took up the lead and was shot tew yards farther on The majors were wiped out. Every captain but one went down. The last Captain, Nash- enito, in charge of D Company. found himself, at length, under the Chinese wall with seventeen men--a mile and a half in advance of the main body of the Japanese army, he grew giddy with success of his attempt Of sudden he concluded that he could take Port Arthur with his seventeen men. He scaled the wall and fell across it. his bad bullet-broken. Eight Of ms men got over, scaling the height be- 
 Tower. On this slope, for three months, in full sight of both armies the eight lay rotting. The Russians referred to them as The Japanese Garrison.
 As full of the fire of heroism are the stories of Lieutenant Oda and ms volunteer Keisshatai, or certain deatn party, of Private Nuremeya- the 1irst man to man the sun flag and me etef-
 
 rade for comrade are not wanting Tn these pages, and there is one story or an unrecorded kindness that was the touchstone to bring out that brother hood of men that lies imbedded m s.e human head behind all hostility or oi- vine nationality, behind all racial ap- positeness: T..
 "A Russian sergeant appeared Tn front of a Japanese trench bearing on his back a wounded Japanese Lieuten- ant. This sergeant had been on the point of thrusting his bayonet throus h l the brain of the Japanese lieutenant, when the other man mofed moaned ana l from his pocket took a bit Of blscuit' offering 1t to the other. The Russian dropped his bayonet. bound the snet- tered leg, hoisted the Japanese to ms shoulder. and walked by moonlight that night to the oposing trenches. Fear  | relentless enmity of the individuals or the two races at death grapple: TWO | figures are rigid there in the half-hgnt | of the bomb proof, one in khaki uni- form, one in blue blouse and marengo pants The one in khaki has ais teeth l in the throat of the other, whose eyes ropped like peas from the pod, peer over, rakishly curious, at his limp hano dropped over the khaki back and hotd- ing a pistol. The khaki lips are drench- | ed with blood partially dried l MT. Barry Is entirely pro-Japanese' | He admires their leaders. their metn- 1 ods in peace and war. He Slories In | their heroism, he appreciates Lhe'r con stant urbanity, turning the seafch-ngh' l of constant observation upon them | from General to common soldier, he | finds only laudable characteristics. w
 are living" writes MT. Barry; 'in an age of modesty and gentleness. of ser vice and concentration; Japan IS tht | master" Lessons whose learning woulc better the boastful peoples of tho | West. MT. Barry exploits in sentence the
 business methods of the Japanese, thu
 antithesis of the Western ways: Th'
 government, which owns the railway
 conducts It's business on the theory em
 ployed by Japanese merchants, sell tC
 the poor at cost and let the rich pay
 the profits" A practical method oi
 putting the income tax in working or
 der at once. In America by adding
 cent to the price of the necessities oi
 the poor. millions may be made for th'
 rich in a single deal Perhaps this na
 tional acceptance of an an2ient com
 mard that came out of the East: "Thol
 shalt not grind the faces of the poor,
 is to be credited with that patriotism
 that faultless obedience to leaders, tha
 love of the emperor. that is 90 marked
 in every soldier and citizen of that em
 pire of the isles.
 The pen pictures of the Generals an'
 leaders of Japan are vividly done ant
 bring as before our sight: Nogt, koda
 ma. Ito. Togo and others.
 For the essence of courtesy ant
 thoughtfulness there in General Nogi.
 "Nogi is the General whose eldest son | a lieutenant in the second army wa
 killed at Nanshan; who has under hi
 command a second son. a lieutenant
 and who wrote home after the ficst dis
 aster; Hold the funeral rites. unti
 Hoten and I return. when you can bur,
 three at once" This gives the anlmus o
 an army whose instructions" write
 Barry is to conquer or die,
 | Nogi was the one man who neld tn
 whole plan of the opposing forces il
 hand: "Nogi alone can tell you hoy
 the batteries are placed, how the al
 visions and regiments are to be Geploy ed and played, what forts are too large what Russian batteries the weakest, tn | reserve force, the commissary an hospital supplies"
 General Kodama: "A poor. unlettere samurai of the famous Chenshu clas
 who today, at fifty-two years of ag' rules Japan and guides her armies. Kodama who holding out his righ hand declared: T hold Port Arthu there"
 Much Mir. Barry writes of Maraui Ito from his witticism to his req policy, much of the Marquis who ca afford to ignore public opinion: Wit
 what monarch of what age would h trade places? He has no position, n titles and no responsibilities. Yet h } is the most powerful person in Japan. Mir. Barrys Is the most importar } and by far the most enthralling boo } that has appeared. or is likely to ar 3 pear. nthe siege and fall of Port Al [ thur.
 It is unfortunate that he who wield