The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . e newspapercorrespondents, hastily scribbling telegrams, an officer giv-ing them details. Telephones buzzed and receivers two companies of infantry appeared along the edgeof a gully, descended into it, and piled their arms. Everynow and then an orderly was called up and given precise 170 THE WAR IN THE COLONIES instructions, after which he saluted, mounted and rodeaway. On entering a redoubt after its surrender one saw per-haps two or three
The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others . e newspapercorrespondents, hastily scribbling telegrams, an officer giv-ing them details. Telephones buzzed and receivers two companies of infantry appeared along the edgeof a gully, descended into it, and piled their arms. Everynow and then an orderly was called up and given precise 170 THE WAR IN THE COLONIES instructions, after which he saluted, mounted and rodeaway. On entering a redoubt after its surrender one saw per-haps two or three hundred prisoners with officers, surpriz-ingly spick and span, in the center, a light cordon ofJapanese sentries fringing the circle. A few defenderslooked thin and pale, but the majority were well-fed andstrong. Some sulked, others chatted and laughed, and threeor four were drunk. The ground above and around wascovered with shell-marks. Jagged lumps of lead lay in alldirections. In some places the churned earth showed wherea mine had been struck or had exploded. Great heaps ofearth and stone lay across a path inside the iron gate. The. © INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE, N. Y. JAPANESE RED CROSS NURSES AND SURGEONS concrete part of the fort, built underground in horseshoeshape, was practically unharmed, but the sandbagged para-pets above showed big gaps and pools of blood. Partiesfrom the Japanese Red Cross were turning over bodies thatlay with faces down, putting those that still breathed onstretchers and those that were dead in a row on one and there were horrible sights—a man with a face un-recognizable, another with a leg torn away, a third in aheap too mangled to look at. Groups of prisoners (over5,000 were taken) stood with hands in their pockets andther mouths drawn down. Inside were Japanese troopswho slept while leaning against one another in all sorts 171 L\ THE ger:\l\x colonies and ox the sea of postures, eompletelv fagged out. The Germans estimatedtheir ca
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