| Show SAW J AT S RUS RUSE F E Siege S of Port by an American Ameri an anThe The that the Japanese are e cager r to IIVO up their Jives fighting l for their native land without a m sem em a fallacy ac according to toile i tile ile t testimony of Morgan who ho has h as just seat of war Ih i h the Inc far east He Ele Was ti tor some months n with the Japanese army army before Port Arthur and saw most or of the fight fightIng Ing i ng that took place there up to Nor No 8 when he left to return to the United States He is a graduate of Yale and did work as correspondent but eat ent mostly for the experience Mr Morgan was interviewed at the II Rochambeau last night by a represent representative of the Post regarding conditions as ae he aw them at Port Arthur I do donot I Inot not mean meal t to say he e explained XI that I the Japanese Japan e are not brave In the field and that they do no lIsk ilsk their lives with lL a reckless daring The deport deportment deportment ment of the Japanese soldiers at Port Arthur cannot be criticised as far as ashe the he t younger men are concerned But in i n the case of he older who ho have wives and s at home it i somewhat dif t Regiment Refused to Budge I 1 remember a case during durins the fight Ilig n gust no a or of su seeli h tr ps was ordered er d to charge up upa a hill bill on the Russian and refused to go They Ther balked i ithe Perhaps the they of the wives and children at home Other and more sea seasoned seasoned I troops were brought up to lead them but still they refused to move moe Then some of the rs plunged their into and killed a number of their theil own men d the soldIers per perceiving that death would be found one way or the other moved up the hill bill and entered wildly into the fight The fighting Is D as bloody and fero ferocious cious as it has been boen pictured I saw some or this fighting in the trenches I slur saw the contestants keyed up to great nervous tension and fighting hand to I hand at a distance some COO yards ard from where I was standing saw them to beasts thrusting bayonets bayone s sInto Into and braining each other so 50 fast that the dead Were piled high In alt all the time I was there I saw but two taken It Is 0 a case of no Quart r and a fight tp to the finish Asan As Asan an instance of this the Japs charged a Russian trench and took it Some thir thirty thirty ty Russians retreated across an open space spa e between it th the tt and the tort fort and while they were retreating being utterly were shot down by a hail of bullets from the Jap guns They Tan ran m as fast as they could but in a few seconds there were put but ur left and thes e becoming frenzied Instead of running toward their own lines Jines ran around in ma clr le all silent in the dust Officer Only One to Escape A remarkable thIng then occurred The last to retreat was as the officer In ccmmand He did not run but ju just t coolly walked a way away as though lie he were I strIding safely along the streets of St Petersburg A hail of bullets whistled I around him hirn and one hit him In the leg but he walked on and reached where all his men had failed These seemingly heartless acts were b by both sides ides and were probably necessary Fighting did not take ulace olace every everyday da day on a large scale whIle I 1 was there though each night saw skirmishes of 0 01 1 less 5 ferocity this being caused lw in the hot het artillery fire the da daThe day The Saps Japs in the pitched bitched battles were Impetuous In their charges and would often he repulsed in the attack upon fort or tr trench lea leaving ln he beans ns of I dent on th flu field Then other charles charges follon the fn fA I In the army Ute life as re the dra The T have aMply did not like the f the dead r I heU believe 1 t that at the at the for not he b ov Aver r for from three I 0 i yot YIt nd that It will end hv th the General JI 1 nut olt The f and flier rp h truer n e cent nt out hi bv th the if ht URt tbt th there p nr P en vet in I Idt tn the 1 fht there are on the cot Bravery on Both Sides i 1 have seen no difference In the br bravery ery of Japs nd RUssians for tor the mentioned 1 and the Russians fight with a valor alor that Is hi nothing short of phenomenal Port Ar Arthur Arthur thur will wUl only be taken when there are areno areno no men left to defend it I think that General opponent Genera l L Nol Nogi is more of a fighter than a Brnt arat and that he risked the lives of his men nore ore than was as necessary at first in th these se impetuous charges he made thinking It was easier to take the fortress than it really was nas But lf nas learned from bitter experience and anc I his methods are now mOte more cautious In Ic fact General commanding the central division has gained the most I pound ground ba b been n the only one of 01 I the Jap genen generals s to really make malee good goody FIe y was in command o of the J war college at Toko and is 18 an excel excellent lent gentleman aswell as a great groat gen general genera 1 era eral For three mont months s during t sum summeT summer meT mer almost no news could be fl sent out by the correspondents with the Jap ar arbut arnix nix but this censorship was broken for I Is s bU bit only to be again resumed Just Justna L na now tIme the true state of affairs is very lit littie tie known It can only be general known that the J p troops are in good gooc i I condition and that the c 15 h S CU supplies coming from rca I Japan by wa was of Dala Dalny the railroad 1 having b en from a broad toa to t gauge gaugl How many men have the Japs Jap ii around Port Arthur was asked That is I divulge Mr ir Morgan replied explaining that h I had been heen In a way the guest of the Jap Japanese Japanese anese army and could divulge e no se secrets nets crets or of that Po Port t |
