Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-01

Into moderately close conflict with the front
ranks a battery commanding their advance
from a rising ground near by was blowing
them with shrapnel
And few minutes afterward q rally In
the yellow front ranks was effected by three
OF their vast regiments hurrying up from
the main b"ly.
II colonel nf the ID Life Guards clearly
perceiving now that the advance had been
too rash, that retreat, in spite of the mist
must mean mere havoc to the whole corps,
pointed frantfcally at the battery shrieking
above the din: Guards those guns must
be taken! And with sabers waving the
regiment went careering for the guns.
Before they reached the foot of the hill
they were mown down almost to a man.
The reconnaissance CORPS now inextric-
ably involved with the enemy seemed cut
off from hope. But a dragon, who had
been dispatched to warn headuuarters of
the position OF affairs, met two regiments
of infantry hurrying up at the double and
soon learned that fighting orders had been
passed all along the British lines. Wilhelm
had resolved upon decisive blow there and
then.
The motif of this mad-looking step lay
in dispatch which he had Just received by
sea from Lord Wolseley. BY a supreme
stroke or tactics, originating from his
second IN command the commander-in-
chief Texas rangers and Colorado bush
men mad accomplished at Waterloo an ap-
paAlng rout OF, the enemy leaving seven
hundred thousand dead on the field. The
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hand ne was on the point of setting out
TO augment the forces round Strelsund
Wilhelm thereupon naade a calcula ton OF
rates and distances, and partly In the hope
or relieving the intangied reconnaissance
corps, with rash filth in his lucky star.
ana eager once more to whirl his own
saber in the air, he resolved late and dark
as IL was, TO give instant battle
Ii was like the attack of an eagle upon
| an elephant.
With splendid suddenness his whole army
hurled itself forward. The onset was dash
ing, impassioned, gallant but desperate.
The Chinese front lay along length OF
tack. at every poirt, made by the British
was successful. therefore their destruction
was the more certain. Everywhere toey
were surrounded. While the battle was
still desperately raging night fell.
Already there lay the plain of the
British 20.Oo0 dead, and of the yellow men
| 100000.
At eight the whirl and uproar of battle
was still undated; and the heart of the
kaiser misgaye him. he looked from a
mound through night glass at the wheel
ing scrimmage in which the LIST Dragons
We're desperately seeking to extricate them
selves from the trampled DEATH and the
furious tornado of life. around them. From
far away through the night there came to
him an occasional unanimous scream OF
| ten thousand parching throats--sure sign
| of some finished victory of the yellow man
But either he had calculated we'll. or the
| tendencies of the world were on his side.
Away back, nearly as far as Franzburgs
| O party of wild horsemen, with knees JAM
med into the ribs of horses without saddles.
| come scampering through a brigade OF as
founded yellow men, which stood awaiting
| fighting orders They are white men come
| pelting from nowhere, born far where the