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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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re enjoined to punish theenemy as much as they could during their retirement.But, so far as I can see, nothing of the sort has takenplace. The Headquarters Staif and myself have pushedon to this rocky knoll whence we should get an extra-ordinarily good view of the advance when it does takeplace, but that is nob yet. In front of us, just out of rifleshot, is Okasaki, apparently in precisely the same posi-tion as yesterday. Not a yard has he gained during thenight, only, wherever his men happened to be at sunset,they have now deeply dug themselves in. The FourthArmy is still holding Nanzan and attacking Round Topfrom thence. Suribachiyama, the ridge joining Nan-zan to the high hill to the east of it, and even thesouth-west skirts of the high hill itself,* are inOkasakis possession, but its summit is still swarmingwith Russians. The Japanese have a battery north ofSanjoshisan and one brigade on a spur south of Suri-* Afterwards called Okasaki Yama. (See Sketch XXVI.)—I. H. li v i (,^ 1
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s > r X The Assault of the Tall Hill 245 bachiyama. They are firing on the high hill. Fromits position the battery near Sanjoshisan is able tosome extent to enfilade the Russian line, but the otherthree batteries are firing direct and cannot at such ashort range and high elevation expect to do muchdamage to men below the crest. Howitzers, in fact,are badly wanted here. Strange to say the Russianbatteries from positions near Renkwasan and Hama-tang are firing either at Terayama or at the batteriessouth of Suribachiyama, or occasionally in our direc-tion, but take no notice of the battery just north ofSanjoshisan which must, I am sure, be doing a lot ofdamage. Whenever Okasakis infantry attempt anyoffensive movement, the Russians disregard the shellsbursting among them and stand up to fire, so far withthe result that the Japanese cannot get on at all. Things are worse with the other brigade (Matsu-nagas) of the Second Division, from which a longdespatch has just come in by the hands

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