Show fORMER SALT LAKER WHO i SA SAW W SERVICE IN CHINA 1 i George A. A Knox Describes His Experience in the Orient Orien as a Pharmacist in the Navy Gior George e A A. Knox a n former resident of or slit Salt Lake who Is s no now nov an apothecary apothecary car cary In the United States navy and local l at tt the Mare Island nav navy yards Is the guest of at his brother Frank Knox o of f the National Bank flank of or the lie lie- public Mr Ir Knox Is oft on furlou furlough h hand and will leave in a f few w days das for Des DesMoInes MoInes la Ia to toI o I visit lt relatives there I Mr r. r Knox has seen heavy T fl fighting In Inand inI I and nd Manila tina and was In active I service with the United States array army In fn Inthe inthe the China Ch campaign His na narrative raU c of or I his experiences Is Interesting I II 1 was In the first detachment of ot marines s that landed in Manila after I the flie t 1 destruction of at the Spanish fleet said ald r. r Knox and aided In blowing up th the Spanish mn magazines near the harbor j 1 went through the battle o of No and nt Ot San Francisco co do Malabon was as vas one of or the party that took rook an old Insurgent ent fort ort that the Spaniards had been trying to capture for tor a n hundred d years cars but had never entered W V We were under Col oh Fight lag Ins mil BUP Elliott and lost fifteen and twenty live wounded From the there we went ent to Cavite and saw flaw some hot work In the spring of li I wa was ordered to China and went vent there on the flagship Brooklyn We c e went up to the river rl to within fourteen miles of at Peking I was associated there with the Russians In Inthe Inthe inthe the capture of a fort lort and saw some very hard fighting The endurance of at the Russians Is fa wonderful An In Instance instance In- In stance tance will show you OU what the they can under undergo o. o We e were ivere under terrific fire on a n fi flat fiat t field and the Chinese had an an I I absolute range rang on us We c were compelled com corn to retreat and leave behind us usa usa usa a three-Inch three field piece The breech wa was waa thrown Into the river that the enemy might not turn the gun on usA us u. A Russian soldier saw the gun un and be believing he- he lieving inc It It too good to lo lose oe seized It and nl carr carried ed It over three miles We e back the following ca day and se secured so- so cured the breech of ot tho the gun which was nas turned over to the American force at at Tsin I 1 reached the European settlement Tu July 11 11 Our barracks were shelled ll he heavily but no one was killed The next day I could see the work of ot the allied forces When hen the charge of at dynamite was laid for the tho destruction of or the wall of Ot Peking It was found that the electric wires were too short to reach the necessary sar sary distance Volunteers were called caned for tor to go and explode the mine and eight Japanese soldiers stepped out They took an nn affecting farewell of or their officers and comrades and Jumped Into the river Se Seven were killed beLore be be- Lore fore ore the opposite bank was waR reached 1 and the lone survivor sUr sprang forward 1 to accomplish his tA task k The train was lighted and the thc the noble noble hero turn turned cl hi his back on his enemies and saluted his friends The roar of oC hundreds hundred of or pounds o of dynamite shook the earth carth carthand and the hero was no more marc When we scaled that wall the sl sight ht was fearful dead fearful dead bodies were piled up so o thickly that we could not get through without marching directly over themI them I was held here and established a hospital rind and could not so go on n to the relief of oC Peking Here the ho hospital corps worked for lor two seventy hours giving 1 first aid to th the wounded and had no time t to cat eat or sleep In that period Cot Col Iscum and Capt Davis were killed In the en engagement Mr lr Knox ha hap haEl In his possession a large Jarge of ot photographs taken at different times In his hie Philippine and Chinese 8 service r Among Among- others Is one ono of ot th the mother mothel wife and sister Ister 0 of Aguinaldo Thes women he hc describes I as re resembling Ute squaws rhe They are arc extremely arro arrogant and nd dicta dictatorial Their vanity Is dl disgusting and the they are read ready to poc pose for every ry one who will point a a. camera at nt th them m. m |