. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. time the Japanesescheme of operations must have been glaringly obviousto a commander of any experience, even in war game orpeace manoeuvres. A part of their force was holdingthe position in front, and had no intention of advancingto within decisive range until the other part, detachedfor the purpose, was ready to press against his rightflank. Before this pressure began to be applied,and whilst a range of mountains separated the twoportions of the Japanese force, there was time tobring up the whole of his reserve, except the CossackR
. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. time the Japanesescheme of operations must have been glaringly obviousto a commander of any experience, even in war game orpeace manoeuvres. A part of their force was holdingthe position in front, and had no intention of advancingto within decisive range until the other part, detachedfor the purpose, was ready to press against his rightflank. Before this pressure began to be applied,and whilst a range of mountains separated the twoportions of the Japanese force, there was time tobring up the whole of his reserve, except the CossackRegiment, and to throw them in the overwhelming forceof three or four to one against the Imamoura Regiment,and the two companies of the Taniyama Regiment. Far from attempting any bold decisive stroke such asthis, the Russian commander apparently neglected todespatch even one company from his disproportionatelylarge reserve to help his troops on the rough bare hillswhence Imamoura and Taniyama were busy drivingthem down into the valley. XI ltnt*Jii**nrM ** V. BATTLE OF CHAOTAO (Kioto)18*^ 19^ July, 1904-. Red- Russians Blae. Scale i5T20 * 6 4-5 Yls - 1 Wk. \*-ari3 Arnold- Chaotao 301 Every student has his own views, and must draw hisown conclusions on such points. Personally, I, sittingsafely in this house of the Chinese physician, find thatthe worst fault any general can commit is to keep bigreserves bottled up in the background, whilst theircomrades are being beaten before their eyes. Gerschel-man wished to adopt Parthian tactics, but forgot thatRussian infantry are not Parthians. When he foundhis front line failed to disentangle itself as he hadhoped, then was the time to harden his heart, marchin his reserves, and let every soldier see that he wasgoing to put up a big fight. Had he acted thus, Ibelieve, whatever the actual result might have been,that his good Russian soldiers would have played upfor him manfully, so that even if defeated the moraleof the
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