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Show Russian Wounded Horribly Mutilated Horrible Practices of the Sashi Ba- zouks Alleged to Be Repented j by the Japanese. . i . I ST. PETERSBURG,. June IS. The charge that the.' Japaneso mutilated muti-lated Russian wounded found Jn the -bushes about tho . battlefield of Vafangow. Is reported by Russl'an correspondents. ' Nemlrovlch Danchn-ko. Danchn-ko. probably the best known of tho Russian war correspondents, says a hospital assistant -ln charjre of three wounded Boldiers, having been driven ott on the approach of some Japanese cavalry, saw the lutter mutilate the wounded men, Inflicting stabs and slashes. One body showed . twenty-eight twenty-eight -wounds on the head; the face .was cut open, the eyes were poured - out, the breasts were pierced and. the knees were crushed with rllle buttp. The skull of one man was crushed. ' M. Danchenlco declares that this horrible hor-rible practice was Indulged In by the Bashi Bazouks in the Turkish war, and oays Gen. Simonoif, commander of the Siberian division of Cossack cavalry, drew up a statement ln regard to the Japanese mutilations which. was signed by the British, French and Spanish I military Attaches. |