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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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hichthe Japanese must have come to get to the valleywere also quite bare, and afforded no cover at all. I have now got the position of Stakelbergs centreand left wing well into my head, and it is speciallynecessary I should commit it to paper, as we have nomaps to help us. I will therefore recapitulate. Fromthe central artillery position near the railway to theextreme left, Stakelbergs line of defence extends forabout three miles. Taken by itself it is extremelystrong. An advance along the railway or an endeavourto turn the left by the Gabuoho Valley (see Sketch XLI.)would be most difficult. An attack by the valley ofthe Fuchou river was also very uninviting, but, ifby chance it could succeed, certainly promised to thevictors a very special reward. The success of anattack up the railway or Gabuoho Valley would merelypress Stakelbergs left wing and guns back uponTelissu. But in case of a successful advance of theJapanese up the Fuchou river valley, the twenty guns* Chinese, Wafangwopu.
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Nanshan and Telissu 335 of the main artillery position could not retire up themain valley to Telissu from whence they had come.No, the guns must then come down south actually infront of their own infantry trenches and circle roundto the rear by the Gabuoho Valley. The lie of theground then seemed to demand of the Russians thattheir centre and left wing on the east of the railwayshould keep a very bright look out as to what washappening on their right, and to the west of therailway generally. I was labouring under special difficulties to-day, asthere was no officer with me who was present onJune 15th. But I had a singular guide, who provedhimself in some respects well qualified as a battle-field cicerone. He was the warrant officer whohad been made specially responsible for buryingthe dead Russians. It had taken him a weekto get through the work, and his retentive memorythrew a ghastly but extremely vivid light on thevicissitudes of the struggle. I must finish mydescription of the Russ

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