THE BEST ARGUMENT AGAINST WAR: THE HIDEOUS CARNAGE ON THE SOU-SHAN HILL, ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY-CONTESTED POSITIONS AT LIAO-YANG. Mr Bennett Burleigh, the distinguished war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, gives the following vivid description of the horrors of Sou-shan:—"On the south front rose a conical hill, the whole south, face of which was a steep green, slope. It was strewn thickly with Japanese dead. In one cluster lay over 300 bodies. The wide area of the trench upon the summit was filled with badly-mauled dead soldiers. There lay, upon a space no larger than Primrose Hill, the corpses of 1000 men." In the distance the artist has depicted the Japanese funeral-pyres, the construction of which Mr Burleigh also describes-—"The dead were placed bide by side in wide, shadlow pits. Wood and grain stalks were put under the bodies; a layer of mould was placed over all. Then fire was set to the stalks, and the heat, acting as a brick-kiln, incinerated the remains where enough wood had been used-Such, are the Japanese funeral-pyres, which, like camp fires round Sou-shan and Ldao-yang, light up the sky by night, and send thick columns of smoke up by day." In Japan the people are said to be shocked by the awful sacrifice of life, and a diplomat at Tokio has said:—"The world will recoil from the sickening slaughter. Every interest of humanity demands an adjustment of the differences betwpen the two nations and desires the conclusion of peace."—Illustrated London News. (Otago Witness, 14 December 1904)

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THE BEST ARGUMENT AGAINST WAR: THE HIDEOUS CARNAGE ON THE SOU-SHAN HILL, ONE OF THE MOST HOTLY-CONTESTED POSITIONS AT LIAO-YANG. Mr Bennett Burleigh, the distinguished war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, gives the following vivid description of the horrors of Sou-shan:—"On the south front rose a conical hill, the whole south, face of which was a steep green, slope. It was strewn thickly with Japanese dead. In one cluster lay over 300 bodies. The wide area of the trench upon the summit was filled with badly-mauled dead soldiers. There lay, upon a space no larger than Primrose Hill, the corpses of 1000 men." In the distance the artist has depicted the Japanese funeral-pyres, the construction of which Mr Burleigh also describes-—"The dead were placed bide by side in wide, shadlow pits. Wood and grain stalks were put under the bodies; a layer of mould was placed over all. Then fire was set to the stalks, and the heat, acting as a brick-kiln, incinerated the remains where enough wood had been used-Such, are the Japanese funeral-pyres, which, like camp fires round Sou-shan and Ldao-yang, light up the sky by night, and send thick columns of smoke up by day." In Japan the people are said to be shocked by the awful sacrifice of life, and a diplomat at Tokio has said:—"The world will recoil from the sickening slaughter. Every interest of humanity demands an adjustment of the differences betwpen the two nations and desires the conclusion of peace."—Illustrated London News. (Otago Witness, 14 December 1904)

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