A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . t made his effort and is onlytwo-thirds of the way across. The firing is veryheavy. —The foremost of the Japanese are lyingdown firing at about 250 yards from the Russiantrenches, w^hich are on a knoll just north of thevillage of Zenshotatsuko. {See Sketch XXIV.)Others are joining them, and now, for the first time,the attack presents the normal appearance of a fairlythick firing line with a loose supporting body, I canhardly call it a line, some 200 yards in rear. —The whole of the firing line has risen likeone man and ma
A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . t made his effort and is onlytwo-thirds of the way across. The firing is veryheavy. —The foremost of the Japanese are lyingdown firing at about 250 yards from the Russiantrenches, w^hich are on a knoll just north of thevillage of Zenshotatsuko. {See Sketch XXIV.)Others are joining them, and now, for the first time,the attack presents the normal appearance of a fairlythick firing line with a loose supporting body, I canhardly call it a line, some 200 yards in rear. —The whole of the firing line has risen likeone man and made the charge. Simultaneously theRussians are clearing out and falling back with someprecipitation on to the main ridge. —The Japanese are now swarming like anarmy of ants over and around the knoll of Zenshotat-suko. Matsunaga has effected his lodgment on the * The losses only amounted to 235, so it is not possible that anylarge proportion of the men who seemed to fall on October 12thwere hit.—I. H. 5CENF OFHANDTCHAND FICHTINOAT DAWK OCT. IS^. Battle of the Shaho A THE RIGHT OF THE JAPANESE POSITION NEATO HAND FIGHTING TOOK PLACE IN THK TREI XXVIII
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