Identifier: cu31924071142891 (find matches)
Title: A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hamilton, Ian, Sir, 1853-1947
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: London, E. Arnold
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to them, and one shrapnel bowledover fourteen men in mid-stream, and killed quitea good number of horses. This was unfortunate, as thedead horses at once sank under the surface, carryingwith them essential parts of the guns, which had to berecovered before the battery could go into action. Notmany minutes elapsed, however, before everything hadbeen fished up and carried into the kaoliung, whichgrew right up to the bank of the river. The SecondDivision artillery officers are inclined to criticise theaction of the Twelfth Division in giving the Russianssuch a chance at a range of Under 4000 yards, and holdthat the Russians ought to have destroyed a batterymaking such an attempt. The Russian guns were, as shown in Map XV., postedall along the eastern edge of the Shisan ridge. Theywere for the most part in very fair gun-pits, but therewere no deep trenches for the detachments. Nor wasthere any attempt at indirect laying, and each guncould at once be accurately located by its flash and by
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z pc The Disastrous Retreat from Penlin 351 the immense cloud of dust which rose with the shockof each discharge. The Japanese think that thecomparatively unprotected, very conspicuous Russiangunners must have suffered cruel losses. It may beso. We shall some day hear the other side of thestory. But troops are always inclined to be oversanguine about the effect of their own artillery. At 9.30 A.M., and at noon, the Russians made ratherhalf-hearted counter-attacks down the Penchiho roadagainst the right of the troops holding Makurayamaspur. Reinforcements of two companies from the sup-porting battalion were sufficient to check any untowarddevelopment in this direction. After midday, thesituation afforded an interesting exemplification of stale-mate. Although Makurayama hill commanded theShisan ridge by 200 feet at from 1000 to 1500 yards,the Japanese infantry were unable to establish thatpreponderance of fire over the Shisan ridge which wasabsolutely indispensable if any further advanc

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