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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-09-08, Page 7JAPANESE OCCUPY LIA� YANG. KOUROPATKIN WAS DRIVEN OUT. Russians Outflanked and Forced to Cross Taitse River. The Iwo Days' Fight Results in Great Victory for the Japs. Kouropatkin Striving to Retreat to the North --Line to Mukden May. be'Cut Kuroki Forces Passage of the Taitse River -- Portion of the Japanese Farces Marching Straight for the Railway s Above the Taitse River ---Over 25,000Casualt;es--Can Kottro- paticln Escape Defeat ?---Is Kuroki's Army in Danger ?-- Russia Says it is Not a Retreat—__Great Rejoicing in Tokio-- The Fight Resumed Tc -day ---Assaults at Port Arthur Stopped. Tokio cable says -rhe battle of Liao The following statement was obtained Yang last night continued until mid- from the War Office at 10 o'clock on night, with frightful slaughter. The I Pl�urgtlay;night; Gen. Tiurokis army crossed in force Japanese at last succeeded in getting a to the right bank of the Taitse River, column across the Taitae River, north- and it therefore became necessary for east of Liao Yang, and then Gen, theRussians to repel a blow in this di- Iioluopatkin gave the order to fall rocIn view of this development in the back on the main works, but owing to. operations Gen. Kouropatkin decided to the Japanese pressure this mov!ment abandon his positions on the left bank was not executed, The armies slept in tjto otherd to side oftthe e i rtti lioleTarmy osit their positions. tion is one of the strongest, both in clue. .At daybreak to -day the Japanese atter and in site. The great issue will army on the left delivered a fierce and be finally decided there. on the successful assault against nthe n heights Russianarmavoidsing othe tds angerl of be to the west of Hsh lingtu ing divided bythe river,and enjoys the high ground to the west of Shoushan- b ] y pan It pierced alto Russian lines, and advantage of conhpaotness. later forced the retirement of tbo Rua - fore Iiottropa�ticid's ]Hove, tUere- hm troops from their position on the fore ,is_ not to be considered as a "re- aig}ht and centre: treat, but rather as the caerying out of Subsequently -Gen, Kouropatkin aban- n weld defined plan. /toned Liao Yang and withdrew his Tbo withdrawal of the Russians to entire force to the right bank of the e •right bank involved the abandon- 'I'aitsie River. The Japanese are now mens of Lino -Yang, which is sitessted on in possession of Liao Yang. I the left bank. The Japanese took .advantage of CASUALTIES. ' this to occupy the city, but the stern - OVER 5,000 est t fighting al of the 1 t ttm i is stili 1 P before 0 g Jap Success Gained at Enormous Cost of 'them unless Gan, :wain pa ll bin ckdecides lat J p site last incur to again .fall back to the Life. northward, It is More than likely, how- ever, that be will decide, to fight to a finish, The cards are all in his favor, it is believed now, and ]ie has the Japan- ese divided by the river, thus effectually turning the tables upon his foe. "The determined pursuit by the Jap. anese of the Russian outposts when Gen. Kouroptakin gave the first order to withdraw was probehly elle to ;their anxiety to keep the Russians south. of Liao -Yang until Gen. Kuroki should be able to strike from the northeast. Gen.Iiouropatkin, however, saw the trap, and cleverly avoided it.": Tokio cable -- There is a universal lupe-"� belief that Gen. Kouropatkin suffered an overwhelming defeat in giving the Japanese posession of Lino Yang. The (Government will not confirm this. It )has issued nothing later than the report of the successful rush at dawn, where- by the Japanese left pierced the Rus- sian line on the heights four miles south of Liao Yang and west of Shou- shan, compelling the enemy to with- draw from the right and centre posi- tions, with the victors in pursuit. It is known that the success to which sev- eral days' fighting led has been gained at an enormous sacrifice of life, but the various guesses as to the number of casualties are worthless. Field Mar- shal Gyama, the Japanese commander- in-chief, telegraphs that he lost heav- ily in assaulting Liao Yang, but gives no figures. Geri. Kuroki admits that las losses were 2,225 between Aug. 21 ,and Aug. 28. The other commanders have made no report of their losses. An estimate of 25,000 casualties on both aides is not regarded as excessive. • CAN KOUROPATKIN ESCAPE? • Jape' Great Victory May Not be a De- cisive One. • A London cable says —Can General Kouropatkin escape ? is the problem on which all attention and criticism is dir- ected. None of the news received up to 4.30 a: m. enables one to'give a satis• factory answer. The consensus of opin- ion is that the Japanese have probably won a great victory, but whether it is a decisive one is doubtful. It is point- ed out that the capture of Liao Yang it- self willnot carry matters further tit an the successful operations at Tashichao Hai Cheng and elsewhere. Moreover, even if the Russians, as rtuuored, are its full retreat, it is questioned whether ,Gen. Kuroki aril be able to interpose a ,sufficient force between Liao -Yang anal M.vinkden to bar the retirement of Gen: ;Kouropatkin's huge' army. The Yentai amines, toward which Gen. Sakharoff re- ported part of the outflanking force was directing its march, are nearly ten miles from the railway, with which the mines are connected by a branch line. It is contended that Gen. Kouroki's advance westward from the mines to a point where he t in- tercept the Russi ns will undoubte to edly be resisted by forces allotted for that purpose, probably also in carefully pre- pared positions, and it may easily cost ,the Japanese whole days of fighting to %break down such resistenee, Meanwhile, %the Russian army, if retreating, may aah Mukden despite probable heavy Mosses of men, guns and stores, and though demoralized it would be tar from crushed. It is argued that those and some other reasons make impossible the as- sumption to which the unofficial reports seem to point that Gen. Iiouropatkin is ,surrounded, Little attention is paid to yesterday's /rumor that a• Japanese detachment is ,northeast of Mukden, and nothing more Was been, heard of the Japanese column ,which was yesterday reportedito be west ,of Liao Yang. Thee ate significant omissions in the of Helot report of both sides and dedue- POSITION DESPERATE. River Separates Kuroki From Other Jap Armies. Liao Yang sable says—Gen. Karold made his first attempt to cross the Taltse River late lbs{: evening ander cover of a heavy bombardment of the extreme Russian left. The Japanese ar- tillery, which bad been firing uninter- ruptedly for fourteen hours that day, ceased about 9 o'clock, and then sud- denly reopened abont 11, to conceal Gen. Kuroki's preparations for crossing the river. These preparations necessitated the establishment of at pontoon bridge, as the river was not fordable lower than Sakenkankwantun, and the pontoons must have been floated down the stream. The efforts of the Japanese to cross the river on Aug. 30 were not successful, end Gena Kuroki therefore ordered a portion of his army to ford it at Swan- kankwantun. Gen. Kouropatkin was unable to pre- vent the passage of the river, owing to the dietanee from Liao Yang, about 20 miles, but for the awe reason the Jap- anese were unable to bring the forces which gained the right bank immediately into action. Gen. Kouropatkin heard of the Taitse crossing at Sawankankiyantu n after 0 o'clock on the evening of Aug. 31, and immediately gave orders for Ins men to fall bask on the outer positions. This move is explained by the desire to cel- led a strong force with which to re- pel n flanking movement form the north- east. The Japanese repeated the attempt to throw pontoons across the Taitse River near Liao Yang during the night of Aug. 31, again under cover of bombardment, and this attempt is believed to have been successful. Severe fighting may therefore be expected immediately northeast of the city. The notion of the Japanese commander in throwing a fdree across the river in the face of a strong enemy is considered to be extremely rash, and the position of this force, isolated from the main Japanese army by a deep river, may easily become desperate. BEAT ALL RECORDS. Whole History of Warfare Can Furnish No Parallel. St. Petersburg cable — A correspond- ent at Vladivostock telegraphs that the Japanese are relying on the aid of the gunboat flotilla for future operations against Liao Yang and Mukden. The gunboats, the correspondent says, have tions therefrom pending mote definite not yet materialized, but in any case information can only be hypothetical. I they would be ht no position to render There are again many reports of the,aid to a force on the right bank in hattlee on Aug. 30 and 31, but they add time of need, because they would be un - nothing to the knowledge thereof, and able to run the gauntlet of the forts at only supply further evidence that never Lino Yang. in the annals of war has there been a The strongest forts are situated on contest more sternly fought or with the right bank, where tho Russian army more devoted courage by both combat- i'3 now concentrated. ,ants. The fighting at Liao Yang has beaten :.... all records for the desperate valor of NOT TO RETREAT. the assailants, and the invincible stub- bornness of the defenders. The whole ltis- ierely the Carrying out of a `Well -De- tory of warfare tells of no such bona • bardments, no such carnage and no such fined idea. persitency. Day after day the fight has A St. Petersburg cable says -- The been resumed at daybreak and kept up newts of the occupation of Liao Yang by j with scarce a moment's intermission tut- e0'--- the Japanese and the Withdrawal of the til after nightfall. Russian arrn" to the right bank of the War-searred .veterans scarce believe y ,� Taitse River, reached, only a entail see the stories which come from the Beat tion of the people of St, Petersburg at of war, and declare tbat it is beyond n• late hour, and caused intense excite- human endurance for an army to fight went and disappointment, The majority without respite for a whole week, each of the inhabitants retired to rest, boliev day of which has exceeded its prede. ing that the Russian armies had again censor in intensity of struggle and ear - been succesfut, and that the Japanese nival of slaughter. Day after day the attacks had been repelled. Ugly sus lir thousands of dead bestrewing the bat - ad been rife duringthe tlefield have to be removed. The cions, however, h day, owing' to the abseneo of press tele- Japanese have invented new methods hrnins from Liao -Yung, leading to the to incinerate tite heaps of dead come belief that the communications bad Welt racks, removing the ashes for the honors .ant by Gen. Kuroki. of burial in Japan. The wounded - present a most serious problem, as they tar the transport capacity on either side to the utmost. Tha most difieult problem, however, is the bringing up of supplies of food and ammunition to every point of the fighting line,, which extends from 10 to 20 miles. Never has such a bombardment been known. An eye -witness of the battle of Va- fangow told a eorrespondont that many officers suffered nervous prostration, owing' to the terrible roar of the artil- lery, and one military attache had to be invalided home for the same rea- son; yet the artillery fire at Vafangow was inferior in intensity to that at Liao Yang. TOKIO REJOICING, Kuroki's Attack Has Exposed the Rus- . sian Left. A Tokio cable says that Tokio rings with shouts and cheers tor the victory at Liao Yaug. Lantern -bearing crowds swing through the streets and surge around the staff offices, shouting "Ban- zail" The details of to -day's fighting are scanty. It is only known that at dawn today Gen. Oku's army was hurled against the Russian right centre on the southern line, and that the Russians were forced to abandon their line and positions and retreat. Their pursuit is now in progress. .The result of this pursuit and the result of the fierce battle waged on the eastern line, where Gen. Kuroki is assailing the force which has long screened Liao Yang, together with the abandonment of the Russian right centre on the southern line, ex- poses the Russian left. ' 3ut here the Russian force is so heavy that it may - possibly be able to protect and extricate . itself. The question of the ocupation of '- Liao Yang by the Japanese is in doubt. The official despatehes do not make mention of such occupation, but it is assumed that the Russians are with- drawing through Liao Yang, and that the Japanese possibly occupied it late to -day. To -night no estimates are obtainable of the losses on either side. The early success of the attack was somewhat unexpected on acount of the of n i ssians andthe nature the R 1 natu e of the Russian defences. It is con- fidently believed that Field Marshal Oyama will press the pursuit with des- perate vigor and inflict on Gen. Kouro- patkin the most crushing blow possible, tis believed that his trophies will prove valuable. It is the opinion here that the Russians were not able to parry many guns with them, and that they were forced to abandon or destroy vast quantities of stores. rr, see j% \� z FIELD MAR SHAL OYAM,., Who hi Directing the Operations Against General Kouropatkin. "The Japanoso got our range an4 tried to enfilade us from a village on the right. Here we had the advantage of knowing •tile ranges, and simply smoth- erect Blom with shells, Consequently, the Japanoso withdrew hurriedly. A see- : and attempt to enfilade us was made at 10 o'clock do the horning, but again it failed. We swept the Chinese corn fields whence the fire camp, and turned out the :Japanese gunners like a nest of ani •y wasps. Oqr rifle brigade held the village of Maietnng against the rolling waves of Japanese infantry thrown out against tette position time and again, until our reserves swept down awl cleared the front at the point of the bayonet. "The roar of the fight was not stop- ped by darkness. The scene became in- finitely mole beautiful as the drills were lighted by ebbe-glare from flame -spitting batteries, which had been scarcely visible inbl n e daylight. ht. c Eahof• .the thousands of shelsl benanie n pyroetchnie spectacle, while lines of fire raked and quivered back and forth (where the infantry was hodling our trenches against the creep- ing Japanese columns. The latter had almost reached the trenches of the 24th Regiment, aided by the darkness.. The men, who were at supper, dropped their cups and black bread, turned out quickly and drove off 'the Japanese with their bayonets. Then they returned to their sorely needed meal. "The fighting on Tuesday was heavy on the right flank. A spy captured while attempting to pass the lines, said lite Japanese Guard division suffered ter- ribly." PQSTP.ONEMENT DECIDED. Necessary to Give the Japanese Troops a Rest. London cable A despatch from Shanghai to the Daily Mail says re- cent advices from Tokio state that the general attack on Port Arthur having lasted since Aug. 13, it became "neces- sary to give the troops a rest and make some changes M their 'organization. Military circlesaro now intentionally laying great stress on the difficulty of the enterprise and urging patience, pre- sumably to prepare the public far a postponement in taking the fortress. The original programme has evidently been modified, as it has been found im- possible'to press forward operations as the Japanese hoped. There is general surprise that the place has been held so long, and it is said that the defenders have shown themselves stronger and more resolute than their countrymen who are fighting elsewhere. Another cause of the delay in the fall of the fortress is that the fleet cannot co- operate with the army owing to the vital necessity of'. preserving its naval unit. For this reason the battleships and best cruisers are not employed ,hear •Port Arthur, and the "warships assists . ships would come in ease of an emer- ing the troops aro mostly of an inferior g©nay. 11 be the HIS STRONG POSITION. Kouropatkin's Strongest Position is on the Right Bank of the River. ` St. Petersburg cabe recently says—No absplute iniormatfon baa reached the War Office confirming the reports that Lisp Yat% bas been occupied by the Ja- ppapese, but it is positively knpwn that. Gen. Kocropatlin deckled to withdraw from his ppsitions south of Liao Yang to the north, or right bank of the Taitae river Tuesday night, and the orders were actually given, as stated in these des- patches yesterday. The war office pre- sumes that the movement was carried out, as the latest advices yesterday were that the crossing of the river was not being opposed. The fact, disclosed for the first time in these despatches last type, like the Hashidato, though other W@ algid that the strongest Russian posi- tions prepared by Glen. EEouropaticin, was not around the town of Liao Yang, as the public has been led to believe, but on the right, or north bank of the Taitse river,.was a secret so successfully guard- ed that not even au intimation of it had leaked out. It is now explained that the Russian commander in chief had all along anticipated that the Japanese, when -they made their advance on Liao Yang,.would pursue the identical tactics which • had been so successful in every previous stage of the campaign' and while attacking in front would attempt by a wide detour to outflank the Rus. scan position. This time Gen. Kouro- patkin was not caught napping. He was prepared for just what happened and so soon as he received word that Gen. Kur- oki had crossed the Taltse 20 miles above Liao Yang and was moving westward Kouro atl: m met the move e bythrow- ing his whole army over at night. - w ht. By this piece of strategy ltouropatkin, in the opinion of the general staff, gained an immense advantage. His army is concentrated on one side of the river and the road is still open for his retirement northward, while the Japanese armies, which must act in uni- son, are separated by the river, which places Kouropatkin in a position to op- pose Kuroki with his whole army, while Generals Oku and Nodzu are stranded on the other side, which gives Kouro- patkin a possible opportunity to imitate Napoleon's tactics and defeat the oppos- ing forces in detail. `'There is only one parallel in history," said a high officer of the War Office to the Associated Press to -day, "and that is Metz, when Prince Frederick Charles straddled the Moselle with the German armies. But Kouropatkin bas not repeat- ed Marshal Bazaine's mistake of sitting still whi'r the enemy closed him in." Kouropatkin's great strength in cav- alry, in the opinion of the war office, will stand him in good ptead now. Whether the whole of Kouropatkin's army got across yesterday is not derre itely established, the War Office not having yet received complete advices, the latest information being that the crossing of the river was not being in- terfered with. In view of the Tokio des- patch received this morning, it is possible that the troops forming the Japanese screen. and a portion of the Japanese right flank, did not succeed in crossing the river. There are two good, regular bridges at Liao Yang, over which the EARS. GREY APPOINTED. JAPANESE TROOPS Began - ¶o -Day to Press Gen. Kouropat- kin's Army Towards Tatsho. Tokio cable says that the Russians began to retreat on the right centre from Liao Yang early Thursday. They were thiwwn Into. great confusion while at- tempting to cross the right bank of the Taitse ,River. The Japanese, pursuing them vigorously, seized -a Russian can- non, which they used to shell the Liao Yang Railway station. Field Marshal Oyama's right attacked a heavy force of Rusians in the vicinity of Hoiyengtai, 12 miles northeast of Liao Yang, at 11 o'clock Thursday. His left began at dawn today pressing the Russians to- wards T tzho. It is thought that lie will severelypunish the Russians. The Japanese casualties in the Liao Yang engagement have not yet been as- certained officially. It is announced that they will not exceed 10,000. THREE' DAYS' FIGHTING, Graphically Described by a Correspond- ent of the Official Messenger. St. Petersburg cable says that a delayed despatch to the Official Messen- ger from Liao Yang, under date of Aug. 31, gives some details of the three 4ays' fighting from Aug. 29. The despatch fails, however, to throw additional light on the state of telegraphic Communica- tion, because it arrived Thursday morn- ing, too late for publication. Neverthe- less, it is among the Inst communica- tions before the suspension of press mos- . sages. The despatch indicates that the Russians were holding out well, and probably could not bo dislodged without Gen. Kuroki's flank movement; The cor- respondent states that he was with a battery on Koulack hill, to the ]eft of . the railway line, at dawn Monday when the Japanese guns opened. "It was," he continues, "a simultaneous salute by lutndreds of cannons, and during the first hour the firing was simply terrific. We were under a perfect rain of shrapnel, bullets and splinters of shone. Tho Jap- anese did not know the country or the location of our defences, so they con- stantly shifted their batteries to search out our positions. "It was in the course of these manoeu- vres that Koulitek hill became an object of interest to the Japanese artillerymen. The sight was a beautiful but terrifying one. Although we were masked and tolerably protected, the aide of our hill was rent and torn by bursting .shells. Dirt, duet and rocks filled the air and the smoke lung like a golden halo over- head. We watched the shells fall upon the, ruins of a thousand year old Watch tower, where they cenipleted the ravages of the centuries. >r New Governor-General of the Dominion. London cable -- The King leas ap- proved the appointment of Earl Grey as Governor-General of Canada in succes- sion to the Earl of Minto. Albert henry George Grey, who was born Nov. 28, 1851, is the eon of Gen. Holt. Charles Grey. His mother was nth daughter of Sir Thomas IIarvie Farqu- har. The Countess of Antrim is lois sit- ter. Ilea inherited -leis title in 1894 on the death of ins granduncle, the third Baal, Ile Was cleated member of Parlia- ment ment in the Liberal ihterest for South Narthnnberlend its 1880 acid represented that constituency for five years. For another yea`~ be sat for the Tyneside division of Not+thltmberland. In 1890 Lerd Grey was appointed by the British Government •to succeed Dr. Jameson as Administrator of the Char. terea South' African Company's, terri- tory. Lord Grey Lias hit, recent years taken a great interest in the English publio 1000 trust, whose aline aro to provide desirable places of amusement for the masses. The new Governor-General was an in- timate friend of the late Cecil Rhodes, and is one of tliC executors of his will. /To was a special favorite with the late Queen Viot<nit, his father, Gen. Grey, being for many year's private secretary to Her Majestyand chief of the suite which accompanied the Prince of Wales when he made his famous visit to Can- ada. Earl Grey is a godson of the late Prince Consort, and Queen Victoria her- self stood sponsor to his eldest daugh- te=r.' The CotutLOss of Grey ie the daughter of Mr. Robert Stapler' Itolford, M. P. for Wcstonbirt, (ilonceatershi re. They were married in 1877, The estate of the Earl movers about 17,000 acres. IT1I seat is Ilowick house, Lesbury, North- umberland. The Earl's eldest son beats the title Viscount ltowiek. The third Earl (grey was a cousin of Lord Durham, who was sent out in 1839 to Canada to report on the state of the, colony after the rebellion. Lady Minto IS a sister of the present Earl, Russian protein; was effected, atid f i there is the railroad bridge, about tag( were in action at Iieiyingtal, north of the 'ranee River, indieatok. that .Giem, i ouropaticin has already engaged him , with a portion his army- �I ! A i ��Lk It is thought that throughout the figlitiuj of the last few days, that Iiou• ropatkin's main reserves did riot leave their position on the right bank of the �1^"^'^^• ,I river. tweenirLiaop Yanglia and the has Failed to Cure .0 , Nor . been severed is not admitted at the War Office, which points out that it has been receiving only two telegrams daily from Generals Kouropatkin and Sakharoff, Two Consumption, Two were received eaterda a d t o - are expected to -day, although none had been delivered up to noon. '.the absence of press telegrams Is ex- plained, as announced in these des. hatches yesterday, by the transfer of the . head telegraph offiee at Liao Yang to Shakbe, fifteen miles north, whieh Was necessitated by the fact that Japanese aliens were dropping into the office, al- though the office was situated on tate north bank of the Taitso. River. A shell _killed two operators Monday. The field telegraph, which is working between Sltakhe and liouropatkin's headquarters, - is not available to correspondents, who would have to send their messengers by express rider to Shakhe, a difficult task, owing to the heavy roads. The publio.Itere is still in complete ig. nornnce of the new phase which the bat- tle entered upon yesterday, but niterest is at white heat. Every foreign telegrafn Is eagerly pounced upon, and the news- papers are printing extra editions four or five times a day, a thing heretofore unprecedented in the history of the Rus- sian capital; HIS ORIGINAL PLAN. Kouropatkin May Follow it Out and Re- tire on Mukden. Paris cable — The Foreign Office has no confirmation of the reports of Japan- ese occupation of Liao Yang, but its ad. vices lead the officials to say it is proba- blo that Gen. Iiouropatkin decided to carry out his original plan, to retreat on Mukden. This plan, it is added, -was temporarily abandoned, as Kouropaticin' believed that the defenses of Liao Yang would permit him to hold back the Jap- anese, This failing, it is stated, the Rus- sian commander will attempt to revert to his first plan, that of effecting a con- centration at Mukden. The officials here have almost given up hope of finding Lieut. Deptiverville, the French naval attache, who left Port Arthur in a junk, tvith Lieut. Gilgenheim, the German naval attache, about the middle of August. He cabled to the au- thorities here Aug. 15th that he was about to leave, and that the American naval attache hall succeeded in getting out on a junk. DeCuberville has not been heard of since starting. His family and the officials here are greatly alarm- ed. He is a son of Admiral DeCuverville. Shanghai, Sept. 2.—The Chinese Gov- ernment, according to the demand of Ja- pan, effected the stoppage to -day of all repairs on the Russian protected cruiser Askold and the Russian torpedo boat destroyer Grozovoi. 5,00o CASUALTIES, Kouropatkin Telegraphs to the Czar the News. The Tokio report that Kuroki's forces received a despatch from Peterhof, sent to the Emperor last night by Gen. Kour- opatkin, dated 5 p. m. yesterday. As transmitted to the War Office for publi- cation, the information is extremely meagre, and only reveals the truth in the light of the interpretatio4 of those who are conversant with the situation at Liao Yang. It is possible that this is justifiable on strategic grounds. - As communicated to the press, the despatch states that an artillery battle proceeded till the hour of sending it, and that the Russians were retiring upon their "main positlors," that Gen. Kuroki was attack- ing the Russian left, north of the Taitse River, that the railroad station, which is situated a mile northwest of Liao Yang, had been set on fire by Japanese shells, that the station bad been transferred across the river to a point on the north bank, that Kouropatkin had passed in re- view the third Siberian corps, under Gen. Ivanoff, which suffered greatly in the earlier stages of the battle on the east front, and finally that the Russian loss- es for two days were 5,000 killed and wounded. He EATS GRASS: The Strange Diet of a Citizen in New York. New York, Sept. 5.—The Tribune to -day says:—Not since the clays of Nebuchadnezzar, when royalty startled Asiatic society by browsing for snstance In tho pastures about Babylon, has grass eating as a habit caused any considerable comment. There, however, Is a resident of this city who not only claims the verdant hergage as lis solo diet, but declares that to Its use he owes his present Perfect health. The man is Eusebio Santos, lying in Fifty- first avenue, Brooklyn, a Spaniard, 25 years old. For six months, he declares, he has eaten nothing but grass and drunk nothing but water. He was born in Laredo, Spain, and lived for many years in Cuba. He wits for a time a clerk in a general store in Hav- ana, and there became a physical wreck. Eta nerves and digestion were ruined, he de- clares. "I bad terrible headaches, attaches of in- digestion and other troubles that nearly drove me wild," he said to a reporter. "When I came here I consulted a ,.byelcian, and he told me I needed to diet. He advised me to eat as little food as possible, and if 1 got at any time so that I could not stand the cravings of hunger to chew a little grass to satisfy my appetite. Well, I tried It and got so I liked the taste of grass. I'm en- tirely well now, don't know what a head- ache is like and have gained flesh," Every evening after the dow falls he takes a bag and goes out to Prospect Park to gather his next day's provisions. This • re- quires about eight quarts of grass. He oats it uncooked and unseasoned. He is an epi - euro at that, being pnrticular as to the kind of grass he eats. Some, he says, is sour, some bitter, solus spicy and some sweet. The sweet grass, he declares, is most nourishing. Ile seems to have no qualms of conscience over taking his provisions from the city free of charge. Nor is he worried over the ap- proach of winter, when his natural diet x111 be n scared article. He says he will go south in the winter as soon as the grass begins to get dead, and remain till it is fresh and juicy again 1h the spring. TO AVOI» VIOLENT DEATH. Italians Quit Work in the Toronto Rail- way Yates. Toronto, Sope is—A number of the Italians who have been workng ,n rho freight and i.asenger yards around the city have deckled that they will not work in the yards any more, owing to the great number of Itallan laborers who have been killed. Fully a dozen have met death in tlhe county of York dur- ing the past year, most of whom lost their Lives in places where locomotive,, ere travel- ling and where shunting is being done. This deetsion of 'the Italians deprives the ralway companies of the cheap Italian labor which is from 23 to 35 er rent. chetieer than other tabor. About three hundred Itnl- tans aro employed b the dltforent railroads here, tome fifty of tvhem in the yards. Thirty Italians etruek work yesterday and- went to St. L'atharines, where they Will be employed on municipal cataract Work. He Had Trudged All Over the Land in Vain, Was Always' Welcome and: Well Treated, New York, Sept. 0. --Charles E. Norris, of Denver, Col., who dropped dead in Chicago on Saturday, probably was know to more telegraph operators and railroad men than any other person in the country, and for several years had been a subject of inquiry from thou- sands of physicians interested in the CUM of consumption, That was because Norris, after passing the age of 64 years, had walked more than 13,000 miles in ell effort to rid himself of the disease. Jn his travels he had consulted with everybody who had made more than .a casual study of tuberculosis, visited every sanitarium where .eases of the kind were treated and amassed a fund of informa- tion on the subject,but in spite of his open :air life and exercise he failed to completely recover his health, and in the last few months had been a physical •wreck. Although he always followed the rail- road tracks. Norris never could be pre- vailed upon to board a car. He estab- lished friendly relations with the yard matsers, tower men and station agents on every important.line in the North and West, and when he reached one station the foot would be telegraphed ahead along the live and welcome was given to him at every place. Often the railroad men had warm meals waiting for him, and he was al- ways permitted to sleep on newspapers spread on the floor of the station be. hind the stove. He used to say this 'was as comfortable a bed as anybody would desire in winter, and in warm.weather he slept under a tree or in a cart. The railroad men were always glad to see him, because he brought with him all the gossip of the road. Norris had gone from Denver to Omaha, where he obtained work on a newspaper. There he caught a cold, which developed into consumption, and three years ago his physician told him that unless he kept constantly in the. open air his life could not be saved. Nor- ris ga •e up his position and started to walk. He weighed ninety-eight pounds then. First he walked back to Denver, but finding that the air there apparently did him no benefit he decided to go to California. He had about $700 at the time, and soon afterward his brother sent him $200 more, but, as he afterward said, he was so well dressed and looked so respectable that nobody on the road would take money from him. It was not long, however, before his clothing grew shabby, and then he had to ,pay his way wherever be went. Eventually his money gave out, and he had some trying experiences, but on the whole he contrived to get along very well and in the course of a few months had added forty-three pounds to his weight. Norris never tried to make remarkable time in his travels. He said that when he started he covered only a mile or two a day, but after that he increased the distance. The largest unbroken trip he made was from Batavia to Buffalo, thirty-seven miles, which he did in twelve hours. He had been in every one of the Western States, and once crossed from Detroit into Canada and walked up to Montreal. Always careful to avoid tramps and taking the best possible care of his clothing, Norris invariably won consid- eration from strangers and managed to prosper. He said once that he carried all the money he had, one dollar and sixty cents, for four months, because nobody would accept it from him.. His Bair and moustache were snow white. His conversation was correct and he was web informed. In spite of the vicissitudes lie often encountered ho declared he liked the life and that the activity of his mind in laying out routes Helped him as much as the pave air, Sometimes he went hungry, but be said he didn't mind that, and once he nearly died from cold through having to walk for six hours a distance of four miles through soft snow ;hat came, to his armpits. He was on his way to Leadville, Col., at the timWhe. en he readied New York last May Norris had been walking since Aug. 8, 1901, had completed 13,055 miles, and bad worn out his sixty-eighth pair -of shoes. He had no money, and, notwith- standing his long travel rn •the open, his health was not good. After a short stay here he walked to the west again, and at the time of his sudden death he was engaged in the writing of a book of his experience in these last itinerant years of his life. . ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY An Address From the French Business Men. Montreal Report—Perhaps the incident of greatest interest to -day in connection wish the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury, was an exchange of courtesies at the Cham- bre de Commerce, the meeting place of Mon- treal's French-Canadian business men. Up- on the arrival of the distinguished visitor, Mr. Ii, A. A, Brault, President of the Chambre read an address. In'reply rho Archbishop said that he heart- ily thanked the members for the kind words spoken through the President. Such a recep- tion would long live in his memory as one of the most welcome .incidents of his visit to Canada, and above all be prayed that Clod would bless the dominion and its people, and it was his earnest prayer that all would ]lite in harmony and peace. . Other places visited were the Boned of Trade, the Bank of Montreal, tike flower show, and there was also a drive around the mountain. At the hoard of Trade Sir George B. Drum- mond addressed his Grace, saying that he was a Prince of the great Christian Church of England, that Chureh which bas done so much to bind the mother country and the colonies together. Sir George and Lady Drummond entertain- ed the Archbishop at luneheon. In the rourse of an interview Rev. J. 11. Ellison, Vicar of \vindsor, threngh Whom the Archbishop epenks to the press said: " Wbet does" his Grace think of -the closer relations between the English Church and the Church on this continent?" was naked. "We want no organic connection with the American Episeepal chetah, and no peoposai or opinion favoring aueb will be adNatroirol from us at the conference to be held In nee. ton." r.