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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume 36, Issue 9506, 12 January 1906, Page 4

Of/Rijfo tho lato war in Manchuria tlio Jtussians were often so hard pressed as to be obliged to dispose of their dead and wounded in great haste. One wounded warrior told an interviewer, says a correspondent of the Hanover Courier, an almost incredible story, ft appears that the practice was to give the dead find wounded a black mark, and the slightly wounded rv red one. Bodies with a black mark were then buried in a large trench by a sanitary pohjipn, a I barely escaped," said tho veteran. " ISndly umuled, I lay on the field. A sanitary party approached. When they came to me 1 saw them seize the black brush. I just managed to gfisp. ' Lam alive do not bury me.' • Have you any money 1' I was asked. 1 Yes.' ? How nirch? ' ' Ten roubles'—' Hand them over.' He toolc the money and gave me the red mark, and went on, but hud not gone far when a Japanese bullet felled him. Why should I losp my money ? I thought. I crawled to tho fallen man. Ho was dead. I searched hjs pockets. There were my ten roubles, and 300 more. 'lam in luck this time,' I said to my myself and pocketed tho lot. Then a mist came before my eyes anil I fainted.'"