Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-05-15 | Page 2 | Russians Accused of Mutilating Dead

I RUSSIANS ACCUSED OF MUTILATING DEAD TOKIO, May 14. A correspondent of tho Kokumin Shlmbun of Toklo, who is with Gen. Kurokl, has made the charge that the Russians mutilated mu-tilated Japanese dead at the Yalu river. He Bays that when the detachment of the Fourth regiment of the Imperial guards which occupied Kasan received the counter attack from the Russians three Japanese soldiers fell Into the hands of the enemy and were taken prisoners. Tho mutilated corpse of one of them, named Tatsuklro Watanabe, waa afterward found, according to the correspondent; hanging to a tree on the bank of the Yalu. "The dead man's face had been stripped of its Bkln, his stomach hod been gouged out." continues the correspondent, corre-spondent, "and his feet had been cut off. Tho mutUatlonB were horrible. It is believed that the other two men met the same fate but that when the corpses of the three were rolled over the bank only that of Watanabe caught on a tree, the others falling into the river." The. publication of these charges has caused intense indignation.