SHORT SHRIFT FOR THE WIRE CUTTERS.
No crimo in the eyes of justice "m battle equals that of cutting a .wire, writes Mr Frederick 7 Palmer, author of "With Kurpki in Manchuria." "We had an illustration ,of this on the Ist, Collins was :», little distance behind tbe staff, when'he saw one of tho telegraph men running after a Chinese,' who squealed in terror as he fled. The telegraph man caught the culprit by the pigtail and brought him. to his knees. With a fatalism that accepted the inevitable tho Chinese seemed _to 'lower his head for the process. ;■■■ "fn."* Japanese sword that he earned the telegraph nian severed it from the body. There was damning evidence a pair of wire-cutters and bits of Japanese wire, found on the person. 'Rather abrupt,' you 'may say.' But cutting a wire may change the fate of a battle, or mean the loss of thousands of lives."
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12091, 13 January 1905, Page 4
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SHORT SHRIFT FOR THE WIRE CUTTERS.
Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12091, 13 January 1905, Page 4
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