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Title: A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hamilton, Ian, Sir, 1853-1947
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ascertainly by far the cleanest thing he had abouthim. After all, the stream of information did continue toflow without apparent interruption. The first item was good, namely, that UmezawasBrigade had duly captured Penchiho on the extremeright of the army. The next concerned the positionsof the enemy, with whom we were in contact on thenorthern back of the Taitsuho, and certainly we couldnot have wished for a finer view of these positions thanwe got from our Swallows Nest (see Sketch XXI.). Immediately to the south, at our very feet, the broadand rapid Taitsuho ran due west for some three miles,when it turned northwards and, making a completesemi-circle the arc of which would measure about twomiles, flowed away to the south out of our sphereof action. Where the river takes its turn to thesouth, it washes the steep lower slope of a mountainmarked on the Russian map 131. This 131 is ob-viously an ugly fellow to tackle; and on his southernspur are guns, and the crest lines are entrenched
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KuROKi Crosses the Taitsuho 93 in several places, though not, apparently, veryheavily. From 131 a long, low feature runs outnorthwards, and ends hi a flattened hillock perhapsfifty feet high, which the soldiers have christenedManjuyama, or Rice-cake Hill. Just beneath theslight col which connects mountain 131 with Manju-yama, nestles amidst its orchards a fairly large villagecalled Hsikuantun. Beyond Manjuyama the groundis fairly level until, some two and a half miles to thenorth-east of it, a curious five-headed hill about 200feet high—Gochosan by name—rises up out of theluxuriant crops. North of Gochosan a long ridge con-tinues for about four miles, ending in a round hill witha small house on the top of it which we were told over-looked the Yentai coal mines. The whole plain is amass of high kaoliung crops. It is desperately tedious to write so much descrip-tion, but I shall never succeed in my report unless Iget the lie of the country firmly fixed in my own mind,and the only wa

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