Show FORTY PACES APART Japanese and Russian Soldiers Soldier Are Almost In Touch At Lind of ot which town the northern northern half hal half is is la Russian In-Russian In Russian gel d the southern half half is held by Japanese the trenches ar are paces apart and It is possible in the silence of ot the night to distinguish the voices of the Japanese says a Mukden dispatch Sometimes the men on both sides strike up a conversation many of ot the Japanese speaking excellent Russian The soldiers good abuse one ona another and pass invitations to come end and take dinner or drink tea Often the Japanese tantalize the Russians by showing them them- that they have h ve vodka to drink and of which the Russians have none The Japanese continually allowed the Russians to to gather fuel on neutral ground at Lind at-Lind- when they were unarmed Then they suddenly fired killed two Russians Russians Rus Rus- and wounded o one one e. e While the trenches are paces apart the Russian and Japanese pickets pickets pick pick- ets are now only forty paces distant from each other but there is no firing One Japanese sentry fell asleep at t his post and a Russian soldier left the trenches crept up and stole his gun and returned without awakening him The rhe at one time attempted to dig trenches fifteen paces away from the Russians but they were driven off ott |