A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . iHt Japanese Position near Pbnchiho (PtNssmuJ frum the Russian Side Otas Sun-Flag 243 raise a gallop. Each gun or waggon went singly and,as it reached the dangerous spot, sure enough the rafaleburst all round it. Finally, the old forge waggoncame lumbering along, and the shells exploded so nearto it that the horses, accustomed as they should havebeen by now to any sort of uproar, took fright andbounded, so that a man fell off the tail-board. Hepicked himself up, however, and ran off as if the devilwas after him. One lead-driver was v
A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . iHt Japanese Position near Pbnchiho (PtNssmuJ frum the Russian Side Otas Sun-Flag 243 raise a gallop. Each gun or waggon went singly and,as it reached the dangerous spot, sure enough the rafaleburst all round it. Finally, the old forge waggoncame lumbering along, and the shells exploded so nearto it that the horses, accustomed as they should havebeen by now to any sort of uproar, took fright andbounded, so that a man fell off the tail-board. Hepicked himself up, however, and ran off as if the devilwas after him. One lead-driver was very cunning : hekept the corner of his eye in the direction of theenemys guns, and the instant he saw the dust of theirdischarge, pulled up dead, twenty yards short of thedanger-point, and thus eluded the eight shells whichspent themselves harmlessly on the track just in frontof his team. When all the excitement and firing wasover, the casualties were checked, and it was foundthat in one battery only seven men had been hit, andin the other ten horses ! CHA
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