Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 114, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1904 — JAPANESE IN BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS BEFORE PORT ARTHUR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JAPANESE IN BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS BEFORE PORT ARTHUR

The heroic desperation of the Japanese soldiers at Port Arthur jls shown in the picture. Facing almost instant death, they attempt to break through the barb-wire entanglements, and there are mown down by Russian shell and bullets. Recurring exploits of this nature are made by Nogi’s soldiers, and according to recent dispatches the carnage about the fortress has been awful. It was in this way that the Japanese took Fort Zaredontni, a position on the Russian right “A considerable force of Japanese advanced to attack the fort,” writes a correspondent, “and taking advantage of the cover provided by the country crawled for an hour toward the fort like American Indians. In spite of the fire that rained tmon them they arrived at last close to the glacis of the fort in perfect order. Then suddenly they bounded forward. But the rifle and shell fire mowed, them down on all sides, and all gave up save one detachment, which, with fanatical frenzy, passing over the bodies of dead comrades, clipped, cut, and broke its way through the barbed wire right into the fort.”