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PAGE TWO. ASTORIA, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 7, 1004. ARE GOOD TO THE RUSSIANS Japanese Show Wounded Every : Consideration at Battle of Mo Tien Pass. STORY OF THE AWFUL DEFEAT Correspondent Visits the Field and Inscribes the Keniarkiv 1 ble Scenes That He Wit nessed There. Mo Tien Pass, Manchuria, July & (Via San Francisco, Aug. . "Night fighting Is the test of soldiers," remark ed one of the foreign attaches when he visited the scene of yesterday's bloody affair, "and the Japanese certainly have proved their quality this time." Probably no Incident of the war has placed the Japanese soldiers in a more trying situation than the night attack at Mo Tien Pass and nowhere have they gained a more complete victory against great disadvantages. None of the cor respondents with the army heretofore have been permitted to witness fight ing at closer range than their view of the crossing of the Talu from a safe and comfortable eminence on the walls of Wiju. When correspondents or mil itary attaches have attempted to get to the actual scene of events their un failingly courteous guardians always have rebuffed them with the explana tion that it is "very dangerous," that they are guests of the Japanese gov ernment and the government is respon sible for their Bafety. On this occasion, however, the cor respondent of the Associated Press was able to see the conduct of the soldiers on the field and their treatment of wounded and captured enemies in the heat of the fighting. Whatever reasons of military policy may render secrecy desirable, there certainly is nothing in the actions of its soldiers that need make the Jap anese government keep spectators to the rear. The treatment of the Kus- sian victims of the incompetency of their officers was all that the most enlightened nation could expect. When the correspondent arrived at the trenches' where less than a company of Japanese, rushing, from their beds without time to dress, had staved off the Russian onslaught, at first with bayonets and swords, the Russian dead and wounded still lay where they had fallen on the wet, grassy slope. How fierce the half hour's work there had been was evidenced by the pools of blood in the ditch and red trails smear ed all over the grass and stones on the hillsides before it. In this fighting. Lieutenant Kono alone killed several Russians, almost severing their heads with a single stroke of his sword. When he exhib ited the weapon afterward, its edge looked like a saw blade. It has since been sharpened for further use. Although the fight had been begun only three hours before, the Japanese advance was half a mile down the valley pursuing the Russians, the Jap anese dead had been removed to a tem ple behind the crest of the hill and par ties of soldiers from one of the com panies in reserve were going about the field with trenching spades bury ing the dead Russians where they lay and marking the graves with a stake or a pile of stones. The Russians had gone Into action carrying their heavy overcoats and wearing their bags of black bread. They had drop ped both on the field. Already, while some details were burying the dead and some caring for the wounded, others had gathered debris from the field and piles of coats and canteens and a hundred rifles with bayonets at tached were stacked on the temple steps. The Japanese system is not only thorough but quick. There was a company of Japanese soldiers whose khaki coats were black with mud and sweat gathered at the trench quietly discussing events with no sign of ex- eltement Two big Russian prisoners not wounded were resting there with a small Japanese slttng behind them. The Japanese soldiers of the column are heavier than the average of most European armies but the Russians in the Tenth and Twenty-fourth East Si berian regiments are larger and the beards, which most of them wear after a season of campaigning, give them a particularly fierce appearance. The bodies of three Russians who had been killed on the parapet of the trench were laid In the road behind It with their snuff-colored great coats thrown over their faces. Four others of the Tenth East Siberian dressed in grey blouses and caps without any regimental in signia were on the ground beside them One was shot through both legs, one had been bayonetted in an arm and the leg, another had a bullet hole in the abdomen and was dying, his face already had the color of a corpse and his breathing was slow gasps. A hos pital attendant sat near, a black beard ed keen faced young fellow, displaying a white band with the red cross on his arm. His satchel of bandages was open on the ground. He had done what he could for his comrades and was stolidly awaiting developments. Thirty wounded Russians were scat tered over the ground before the trench. They had received "first aw ana were waiting their turn while the stretcher men followed the firing line further on. Groups of Japanese stood about them giving some cigarettes and water and talking with them in the broken Rus sian which a few know and the Chi nese phrases which the men of both armies pick up from the natives of the country. Three days ot steady rain had cut gullies and ditches In the hillside which furnished some shelter for a charging force. Many of the wounded had crawled into these places for shelter. Over at the right of the trench the road ran down the valley and along its further side a brook which had worn a bed among the rocks. Part of the Russian battalion advanced up the bed of the stream and a number were shot as they em erged into the roadway. One wounded soldier had crawled back to the brook for water and died with his face in the stream and his canteen beside his hand, as though he had tried to fill it. In the road a young Japanese bent over a massive Slav with an arm under his head holding a water bottle to his lips. One Russian with a bad furrow plowed through his thigh took his plight happily. With a stone under his head and a tin ot water beside him he rolled himself cigarettes and chattered in Russian which no one could understand, gesturing and laugh ing. Two Japanese were escorting to the rear a burly fellow with a huge yellow beard who had suffered a bay onet slash across the scalp. He was strong enough to walk, but in a delir ium, muttering to himself continually and rolling his eyes. Every hundred feet he would sit down on a rock to rest while his escort waited patiently. The attack itself appears to have been another of those blunders which, like the incoherent defense of the Talu, wasted lives without result Had the Russians been Informed of the posl Hon and strength of the Japanese they must have known that they never had a chance of success. The engagement was merely an outpost affair but it was typical of the methods and abil ities of the two armies. Maimed Soldiers' League to Meet. 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