| Show ALLIES MAKE PACKHORSES OF CHINESE WHO 10 OFTEN DROP DEAD DED IN THEIR T R Copyright right 1900 1000 by the tho th Associated Press Pekin Aug 14 by post via Tien Tsin One disadvantage vantage that the Americans lad riad during durin the hard bard march to the relief of Pekin Fekin was that their transportation wag wagons wagons ons ona were late in arriving The Ninth in m entry fantry fantl possessed the only outfit which reached Tien Tsin Tam up to the time of start starting starting ing lag The rIe supplies were divided among the soldiers of the Ninth and the Fourteenth infantry regiments and the battery The Americans with haversacks blankets and tent rolls started under the heaviest loads londs but they the son stripped to fighting lightIng trim preferring to forego their blankets rather ratier rat than to sweat under them Dur Pur During DurIn Puring ing In the last two nights of the march they the thesle slept t tred and worn out in the rain without shelter or cover One night the wagon train lost the rood and pasted passed the Am American camp The Ther drivers r er plodded along four miles milet in the darkness and rain They might have driven into the Chinese camp hut but fortu fortunately b the Russians stopped them just justin in time thue The Americans bivouacked and and toward the end endi i I the officers kept the men at work only by appealing to their national pride Dont Don t let the beat you dont let the Russians get ahead they urged constantly The army transport when it reached Pekin was an unique spectacle Miles Allies of or animals vehicles and coolies trailed be behind behind behind hind Everything on wheels from farm wagons to fashionable traps was im urn impressed Impressed pressed and every horse mule and Chi Chinaman Chinaman Chinaman naman In the path was commandeered The Japanese had cows bearing packs and andt th t Russians had camels pulled the carts and stagger staggered ed under heavy packs the soldiers curs cursing cursing ing log and beating them Several dropped dead Two hundred river junks and scows I bearing munitions were towed up the river by coolies Had the Chinese taken the offensive most moat of the transportation might easily have been captured and arid cut cutto cutto cutto to pieces by small flanking parties After it was apparent that the enemy was demoralized the generals trusted th transport to luck and bent their efforts toward getting ahead Only such an em eat emt t as 31 existed could have justified such Euch hardships as were imposed upon the troops |
