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
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hness of our guns afterthe storming of Talana Hill have cost us ? TheRussian guns were pointed in every direction andgallantly kept up their fire for a time, but the dis-charges were becoming less and less frequent as thelayers were shot down. The rifle fire also slackeneddown, but the digging still went on, and it was timeto make an end. General Watanabe therefore orderedthe 10th company of the 4th Guards to charge withthe bayonet. At that moment up went the white flag !I wonder if I have written out this story so as torender comment superfluous ? There is not, as a matterof fact, very much scope for it. The certainty thatseventy-two guns, some of them 12 centimetres, wouldsilence the sixteen field guns north of Chiulienchengand Suribachiyama detracts from the interest of thecontest and tends to obscure rather than illuminate thearchaic artillery tactics of the Russians. None theless, it is impossible to refrain from considering whatmight have happened had they withdrawn their artil-
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/get ul rcecr ofR flank iR FIGHT AT HAMATON.May-Is? 1904- . Itacing of a Sketch made on. the (jround. andpresented hyMajor GeneralWatanaie.Comr^Z^Bri^ade,Guards Div.v to Lieut. General Sir Ian Hamilton,at FENG-HUANG-CHENG, 27thMaV,1904-. Japanese Red Russian* Blue . General cmiunancliruj the Brig a 0 Officer commanduiq a RenirnentGi.Mi .30i - (h,arckIrirantn-,?4,XInf/?&-30hlTif!rk .1 lqJ2 denote- Hie numbers of the Companies, e q. 5/jJJ4i Gi. = 5 CoyHn. Battalion 4. Guards Infantry. F is the position* or the Russian surrender 3,4. = 3^ci4^Reaunentsof(huirdsRonicuv Characters denote the nujnbersof tJw. Battalio L ondiTTuEd^vard Arnold. The Battle of the Yalu 127 lery positions in the first instance to points in thehigher hills in rear, where they would have been them-selves out of shot of the Japanese guns, whilst, with theirlonger ranging weapons, they could still have coveredthe Yalu river and the Aiho, as well as the interveningislands, with a sufficiency of shrapnel. It would n

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