Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-10
DEDICATION OF THE sH1Nro HR1NE.

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hlblt strangers from visiting the p'lltie
llcids along the Coast;
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leaves MS camera at nome. I ,ll al'
scores OF dfoschkles when VEL =
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During nv STAY here have visited
| manv nf. the battlefIelds and have
pasr AN. ,,n "l Tbe rrn,,nd-
are. SCARED by iron shot and the race
| of old mother earth mas been peck
\ marked by the siege. The shells We're
thrown everywhere, and some .of Them
went deep into th ground. As soon az
the lighting was over the ChlneSe y
the thousands sWarmed over the land
! scape and gathered UP every blt OF iead
| and iron IN sight. They even dug up
r
which had not been exploded ana
would lnnocently pound on the gap
W1th PICK. Inc result was ahothef
big mole IN the eartb, and the almond
eyed d1ggelS scattered over the lsthu-
s'cate In pieces
Today II Is difflcnH to lind large
chunks OF smell, although there are m
nulneraplc DTS OF non ABOUT the Iorts,
as well as al sorts OF relics OF the
,JlDa1lGsSG and RUSSIANS. ,InerG ara
army buttons, torn caps ana coats ana
pieces or the paroed wire wilich, ,cfafg
ed WIN electrfcity'. entangiea me. SOL
dlers as tnsy chiifoed tne tliis ana
burned tnem 70 death; ! saw routing
sandoags ana tattered leather. coats
worn py uhe .iNussislis ile.e a.ld tiiete
one % eif anu pickeu up
4 pockettul or splinters from the shells
"i'icii tf'e' 9sll2a lle hi i ll lI
,rur 1nppops IN 1KrAp
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The terrors Of the siege are shown by
the museum III Port Arthur. The gov
eminent has collected relics from the
various battlefields and placed them in.
big building outside the old town.
They have made models of the forts,
which show the devilish ingenuity that
destroying one another There are great
coils OF the barbed wire which was
scattered over the hillsidcs The wire
was connected with powerful batteries
inside the Qualifications, and such SOL
diers as Numbered against il IN the
dark were sure to be killed. There
were 20 kinds of hand grenades, filled
with nitroglycerin. They look like min
ers. lamps, but when thrown they really
lit the way to death.
The Japanese had wooden guns. 10
or ~ inches IA diameter which they
Tha . rnie e t' i'tp ,'e .,aitIr
OF Shimose powder holding from a pint
+ to two quarts. and they caused terrible
destruction. They had also squares of
deal board which We're buried q few
inches below the surface. Attached to
these We're tubes of acids so connected
by wires that they exploded as the
troops stepped on the boards, throwing
a whole company into the ai.
Here also are the mines which We're
used on land and sea. These are acorn
shaped iron shells as big us Il bushel-
basket, which would blow UP a ship al
sea or destroy a company Or a regiment
upon land
The museum has every kind of shell.
from some as high rs ones shoulder
down to little fellows the size
OF your finger. 1t has Japanese
flags which the Russians used
to entice their enemies within
reach Of their guns, and Japa
nese kite which they used to test the
wind before sending up their balloons.
1t has pieces Of silk which they en-
ploycd during the latter part Of the
siege to make sandbags, and steel picks
= N he ~ st t down "a some s which are
Worn to the length e. ones thulnn nS
digging the rochs III tiie iotts 'uii'is'is''
S1,. ,t,r,-tIaSp E,,r.H,rtNr;
Much oil inc hshtins was mana ~, 10
nar.a ~ ,n ",'' M .In ." oft ton
close to one inothei', ana they renamed
SO for days, sephrated only by rainnarts
of sandhags AZ looked AT one OF the
ports a Japanese officer polnte , out a