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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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o me the otherday, every shot fired from a Japanese gun takes a dayoff his life, and although our friends are none of themlikely to tell me so, I strongly suspect that after allthe shooting of the past seven days they have not anysuperabundance of shot in their lockers. Meanwhile, the General Staif are deliofhted that acommencement has been made in the taking of 131, andhave sent (at 9 a.m.) these orders to the commandersof the Second and Twelfth Divisions. (1) The main force of the enemy is retreatingtowards Mukden. The Umezawa brigade^ is advancingon the coal mines, and the Imperial Guards on 151. (2) The First Army is to pursue the enemy with itsmain force. (S) The Twelfth Division will pursue towards San-doha.f The Second Division, after taking 131, willadvance towards Lotatai. Kurokis confidence is certainly magnificent. Mat-sunagas brigade has now (9.30 a.m.) crossed andmarched on to assist Okasaki, but the men are dead-beat * From Pencbiho. t Chine^^e, Santaopa (see Map XXXV.).
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hJ !S Manjuyama 107 and will not be able to do much for the next twenty-four hours. To judge by the firing, there is hardfighting going on between the Shimamura brigadeand the Russians north of Gochosan, and Kuroki andhis Staff look in this direction much longer and moreearnestly than they do at the shelling of Manjuyamaor at the Japanese companies clinging to the spur on131, so I daresay our fate is being decided even nowas I write. One thing is of good augury; as the morn-ing wears on the sound of the firing to the northcomes more and more faintly to our ears. 5 P.M.—Welcome news has come in from Shimamurashowing that the menacing Russian column from thenorth has been swept away by the Twelfth Brigade,Twelfth Division, with unexpected ease. It seemsthat the five hills of Gochosan are separated by abouta mile of low country, full of ravines and covered withcrops, from a long bare plateau about 100 feet high,half a mile broad, and three and a half miles long,which stretches northwar

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