Survivors of Tsu-Shima.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7968, 3 November 1905, Page 4

Survivors of Tsu-Shima.

lU'MILIATIOK AND JNSI i/r. A \vrit<-i-iru'di,. Slovu draws a paiithr! picture of the. altitude of the naval authorities towards tire survivors of the FUvt. which was di 1 - stroyed in the bat He <.f Tsu-yhima. 'You cannot imagine Mie treatment < f > whieh \Vo ale being subjected/' said a young uflirvr t>f one oi' the Haltio cruisers to tin? writer. "Il makes one feel ns-hann d of wvaring our unifonn. o<rd grant that 1 nmy get to soi.no out-oi'-tlve-way place where T can torgct thing. For mon» than a year we did work etfluil lo penal servitude. Our crcwjj work'ed eighteen hours a day currying coai. transporting ii in small boats in the orqan, languishing under a tropical ■Jim, feeding on salt meat and tinned food. During eight months wo lived in dirt, and slept in rubbislj, During eight long months not a siivgie night passed without 'alarm or without expectation of Uie-eneiny's attack. |Awl before us we had still greater labour and privations in blockaded Yladivostoek in ease we succeeded i*\ reaching it. And reproaches and insults are our only reward. You know ihe rough nafuiv of our sailors. Well Mir chiefs have succeeded in touching hem to the quick -by their hmmJia- 1 'ing invectives, awl I have seen tlunn cry. broken dewji by this new kind of uelcomp from their her country after the labours they have un- j lergone. Truly we envy -those Ih.it • wished.'C'<m ral New*. I