Japanese Self Sacrifice

On board the Matsushima one man, who had been shot in tbe abdomen and whose intestines were protruding from the gaping wounds, refused to be carried to the surgeon's ward, because, he said, he did not want to take any of the fighters from their work in order to carry him below. Another, after having had his body burned out of all recognition in attempting to extinguish a fire, stood by helping all be conld till the flames were put out, when he died. A third (mortally wounded) man, whose every gasp brongbt forth a gush of blood, would not close his eyes until he had told a comrade where the key of an important locker was and what the locker contained. A chief gunner, whose under jaw had been shot away and who conld, of course, not ntter a word, signed to a subordínate with a nod to take his place and feil dead after he had placed the handle of the gun lever