Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1907-02-07
Acts of Russian Heroism ]

most often during Cne great pdtIio
to the little woods back OF the royai
tombs, where lor two centuries tne
bones of the ancestors OF the Manchu
dynasty have moldered.e The 49,
Siberian corps were there. 1t was
easily the best corps in the Russian
army. had been interested in this
corps ever since the battle of Lao
Yang. | was with Gen. Stalkenberg,
the commander of the corps, when
word came from Gen. Kondratoyitch,
the commander of its division,
that Re could no longer stand Kuro-
ki's dreadful hammering without re-
Inducements. TEN Gen kondrato-
Witch" said Stalkenberg. 'tnat IAN
send him no help. but that he must
stay where he is until the last man in
the 9th division is dead"
Then only few minutes afterward
the grim old general, sorry that he
had had to send a message of that
kind to his devoted 1lyision COM
mander, walked upder hail of sharp
mel and bullets to where the division
way lying. He passed up and down
the line, telling the soldiers that the
men of the LIST Siberian corps ha1
been made godfathers to the new
born son of the car You men OF
the 1st," repeated the general over
and over. You men of the LIST, You
are the godfathers To the future EN-
peror OF all the Russians You must
not finch. My children when the
baby shall come to know of things
shall he be told that you, his grand
fathers, ran from the enemy? Nay,
we cannot run. Let common sol
diers run, but the godfathers OF a
czar fight uptil DEATH SO me ISL
stood fast in all that storm and litter
bearers had to fight the wounded
men to get them off the field, for no
matter how cruelty torn they were by
shot and shell, with the blood pouring
even from their mouths. they would
try to push back the Red Cross men.
At the battle of the Sha again
saw the soldiers of the list in the
most desperate part of the fighting.
They were struggling like madmen
to hold back the terrific onslaughts OF
the Japanese. At Sandepu, in the
ill-starred attack of the Russian right
wing under GrippenSerg, the Sth and
9Th corps held back and II was the
old LIST corps that bore the wrole
brunt of the fight. In temperature
OF Is degrees below zero they aavanc-
ed slowly over Recovered ground in
the face of deadly fire from and al
most impregnable position. They
carried the outer worries of the town
and grimly held on until ,nally the
order came from Kuropatkin for me
corps to retreat. Then they fell
slowly back. sullenly protesting that
they would have driven the Japanese
from Sandepu had they been left
alone. The news that they had lost
over 5000 men staggered the COM
mander-in-chief. He did not think
that any body of men could fight on
after being so terribly cut up. None
could have done It except the LIST
corps.
SO at Mukden | looked oftenest tc
see how the LIST corps was coming en-
They We're hard at IL. AS usual tho
worst OF the fighting seemed 10 Ia
where they stood. II was the after
noon of the fourth day before the re
treat when Finish captain whom
knew invited me to go over with hin
10 the LIST corps. "rhe Nicholas II
regiment is again in town which now
for the fourth time today they hay,
taken from the Japanese" he said
Fighting there has been terrible
The place is Uttered with corpsSs
Let us go"
The Nicholas ii regiment-his i'm
perial majesty's own regiment. the
LIST regiment of the lst corps aao
always considered the best regimen,
IN the best corps of the Russian army.
had visited II manv times in its DO.
siuon ON the Sha river | knew per-
sonally almost all the officers, FIR I'm
Col. Lesh down TO Parootchick yillen.
ski. and they were all friends. and
the friends. too hailed me as brother.
IN the LIST regiment and the list corps
felt the deepest personal interest
So as was only too glad OF the on.
portunity To visit them.
We rode across the nen.s M first
ana then struck the Sinmintun road
and Kept straight on until we came
TO dressing station for the wounded
under bridge. We stopped here 70
get our directions from the officers
rhey came up into the road and
pointed out the town where we wouls
md the LIST regiment. The wo,uue,,
men of that regiment We're streaming
along on their way back TO tho field
hospitals in the rear. They tola the
Finnish captain that the fighting WAS
very hot in front of the LIST but that
me corps was slowly pushing the
Japanese back. All" said wouna.
ed man, trying to sit up ON his M.
ter, now that the Japanese have ,ns.
covered they are flied with fear
They are going back"
Discovered whatg" asked the can
tain.
Discovered. o excellency. ,nat n