A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . ACGlSI 50 AND 31. 1904 c With the Guards Division 87 Division was definitely committed to the crossing ofthe Taitsuho, and the main body of the Second Divisionhad concentrated by 10 at Kosojo * for thepurpose of following the Twelfth Division to theLentowan ford by way of the Henyu. The lines ofcommunications of both these Divisions crossed theTangho at the same spot, Amping. MatsunagasBrigade was twelve miles to the south-west, assistingthe Guards to contain another of the enemys Divisions,and the Guards themselves were still f
A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . ACGlSI 50 AND 31. 1904 c With the Guards Division 87 Division was definitely committed to the crossing ofthe Taitsuho, and the main body of the Second Divisionhad concentrated by 10 at Kosojo * for thepurpose of following the Twelfth Division to theLentowan ford by way of the Henyu. The lines ofcommunications of both these Divisions crossed theTangho at the same spot, Amping. MatsunagasBrigade was twelve miles to the south-west, assistingthe Guards to contain another of the enemys Divisions,and the Guards themselves were still further away inthe same direction. Absolutely the only troops avail-able to make face to the enemys Division on the heightsbeyond Shobyoshi and Sekishoshi were four Japanesecompanies—two near Sekishoshi and two a little tothe north of Shobyoshi. If a Russian brigade hadcome down from its position and overwhelmed thesefour companies, or even if one Russian battalion hadmarched round their left into the valley of the Tangho,then in neither case was there an
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