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Show "HEARTS OF RUSSIANS ARE ; NOT IN THEIR COUNTRY'S BATTLES " SAYS OFFICER , , 1 ... . 1 Surgeon in Russian Army at the Front Tells Salt Lake Relatives of Conditions; Letter Is Translated. Russia will never win In her struggle with Japan. If It were possible, victory would only mean that afterward there would be no end to trouble In Russia. A Czar in Russia Is nothing. Today he is alive and tomorrow he may be sleeping the long sleep of death, and Russia wculd rejoice. If there were no Czar in Russia all would be well. Then would come the birth of a new republic, the republic of Russia, and the world would be better for It. The people would then feel the sweetness of life. These sentiments and ot'iers are but part of a long letter that has been received re-ceived In this city from a surgeon of the Russian army, written after the world-famous world-famous battle of Llao Yang. The letter was written from a little camp out of Llao Yang on the 27th of September of this year. It is entirely in Russian and was translated exclusively exclusive-ly for The Evening Telegram. A liberal translation follows: cheer because we are sent out from our loved ones to murder? Should we cheer because to secure a little strip of land, wa have been sent to murder the Japanese? Are we officers sent out in a war for what is right? Are we here defending the sacred honor of our flag or tor the defense de-fense of our people? No. we are here as officers, sent as the ministers of death, by ths Great White Csar. to murder these good people, who would not stoop to such acts of inhumanity. "But If you command us to hurrah we will obey. When we are commanded we are soldiers and have to obey. We will chant 'hurrah,' but it is not with our souls In it and our hearts rebel." The General commanded, but they did not hurrah. He was overcome. He knew that they knew the truth. He, an old officer, was unable to see how these inexperienced in-experienced young officers could learn the truth so quickly. "If we do win. we will only have trouble after victory. But victory will never corns to Russia. If we continue this fight for years we cut peyr win. How, now. com-rauM?" com-rauM?" continued the young officer. - "Ay, too true, too true," said a chorus. "Ay. too true." said the old grizzled General; half under his breath. When this war Is over the people of Russia will have their eyes opened. The people will be quick to see what Kusela needs and whut she does not need. Even the oldest officers do their duty, but It Is not a duty of love, but a duty of obedience. Thev liavs not their hearts In this struggle. They have been commanded command-ed to follow the flag and they do it, regardless re-gardless of the causes, purposes or results of !o doing:. The Russian soldier' In a fight Is a most peculiar form of warrior. H stands up a target for Japanese bullets. Ha lies down In a pinch. But. his defense or attack lacks the impetus that is given a soldier when he fights for a cause. AVhen the skirmish is over the Russian returns to the kabak or buffet and fills his brain with vodka in order to partially dull his senses that he may not be so keen In res Mr ins; what is about him. There la a difference between the old and young- officers. The old officer Is too good a soldier to let his sentiments interfere inter-fere with his performance of duty. He goes into each struggle like a soldier should, but he has no support. His men fall to rally shout him and bring things to a point. The young officers are mere automatons In the fight. If a command Is given they execute it without heart or soul and their nu n are the same. Not a man In the Russian army Is patriot. What Is s. Czar? Today he Is a living man and tomorrow he does not know that he will see the rising sun or breathe the perfumed air of his chamber. In the last six months It Is positively known that there- have been elx distinct plots against his life bv the Nihilists. The Nihilists are true to their cause. A rail was Issued to the Nihilists In S!brla which stated that if they would go into the army to follow the flag" against Japan, there would be no more Siberia on the conclusion of the- wir. They would be free to go where they pleased. But there was not a volunteer. If there wss no Czar, Russia would be better off. Then there would be a republic repub-lic born and all trouble would end for Russia. The world would be glad to see the yoke taken from the wretched sub-Wis sub-Wis of the Czar and the people would live to realize the sweetness of life. The above letter was received tn this city a week or more ago. and the name of the writer Is suppressed for obvious reasons. The name of the person receiving receiv-ing the lettex is aleo withheld that no harm may come to him from giving it to the people, that they may gain some Inside In-side knowledge of the Russian sentiment regarding the war. . I am now located In the left (pokle) of my division. We are all weary and fatigued. fa-tigued. The commanders of our forces keep us moving every hour of every day. We camp for our meals and then are compelled com-pelled to march either against the Japanese Japan-ese In skirmish or to a place where It Is thought there may be a Japanese force In camp. ' We never can. tell where we may encounter en-counter these clever soldiers. They seera to spring up from tha ground. Our Cossacks Cos-sacks will come to us to report that they have sighted a Japanese force arid we are marched against them. At first we see but a handful of men, and as soon as the tiring is well under way and the skirmish about to become a victory for us, we are surprised by the sudden appearance of what seem thousands of men. They are all In great force, and our only hope In saving our own precious lives Is to flee. Our retreats are all disorderly- Mnv men -oseretf comrades for all time. Companies Com-panies and regiments are broken up so that they never are organized again. After a sklrmtah. the Cossacks are again sent out to reconnolter. They never return. re-turn. We occasionally hear of them after some time. People tell us that they were captured by the Japanese. They are mado prisoners and kept so that they may not again fight against them. They are not put to death cruelly and Inhumanely-rthe Japanese are civilized. The Russians are not. When the Russians attack the Japanese they at first see only a thin line of Infantry. In-fantry. But once the struggle begins in earnest and the Russians bring up their supports and reserves, the Japanese then bring into action their artillery, saving their infantry from destruction. The retreat re-treat la commenced and the infantry and artillery retire. It is then that the Japanese Jap-anese summon their cavalry, which seems to spring up from nowhere. The retreating retreat-ing Kuskianti are ridden into by the horsemen horse-men and rout and havoc must follow. The dead and dying, the wounded and exhausted ex-hausted Russians are left on the field. It is horrible to see and to live In such strife. The greatest barrier we have to confront is that we do not have any Information as to the country we are fighting in. Our officers have no field maps or guides. Many are without even compasses, that they do not know whether they are going eat or west. We Russians are fighting In a country that Is cntirelv unknown to us. We do :ot know the language of the people, and ;ir Interpreters get dire results when a-.- endeavor to learn of the Japanese. The Chinese who inhabit this country are not friendly to us. We ask concerning the movements of the Japanese and they tell us wrong. We ask how to get into pood country and they direct us to great morasses where if the Japanese discover us we are at their mercy. There is only one way of egress froc these great swamps, and the Japanese are so directed that they are in control of this. The Cossacks of Tronskoie Balhal were thought at all times to be the flower of our army. Their morale, their equipment equip-ment and their boasted efficiency were at all times thought to be beyond doubt. But even this, which is the best Russia has. is not proven in actual fighting. They are without discipline when under fire. And when before the war It was thought that they would have no trouble In defeating ten times their number, it Is seen that they are weak and cannot even hold thelr own against a smaller organization of Japanese Infantry or cavalry. In a fight they go Into the Japanese without regard to orders. They simply ride Into them, and as a result only meet defeat. The reasons for these actions are sd-mltted sd-mltted on all sides. They say themselves, "We hate the war. Our families have been left behind. Our wives and babies are starving. The Great White Czar has made no preparation for their care while we are away fighting that he may have greater glory and inspire greater fears. And what are we to gain if we should win? It is nothing of value that we are fighting for. We are pent out from our country to murder the Japanese." It Is such from the highest General to the poorest, miserable private. They can see no reason why they should be off here In a valueless waste, fighting for nothing. We are losing our Uvea for a Czar we do not love. Shortly before writing this letter I was In a "kabak" out of Liao Yang. There I saw and hesrd what I will never forget as long as my breath lasts me and my heart beats. 1 was forced to remain In this place over night. The saloon was conducted con-ducted by two members of the Red Cross society. There were besides a few civil-Inns, civil-Inns, a number of high officers present. They were drinking whisky (vodka) freely. free-ly. While they were there the Polkovnuk an officer corresponding to our Major-Generals) Major-Generals) who was In command of an entire en-tire divlaion of Russian troops came In. He walked up to the bar snd bought whisky whis-ky for all, and lifting his glass high in the air said in a ringing voice: "I drink to the love of the Fatherland. "I drink to victory. "I drink to the defeat of the Japanese. "Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah. All Cheer." I was appalled by the death-like stillness. still-ness. Finally one officer rose from a stool and being so Intoxicated as to forget his position and the presence of his commanding command-ing General, and having such a clear head when It came to the knowledge of his true eplrlt, he said: "Why should we chserj Bhopld. we |