A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . Battle of the Shaho A THE RIGHT OF THE JAPANESE POSITION NEATO HAND FIGHTING TOOK PLACE IN THK TREI XXVIII. The Battle Continues 229 hills to the north of the Kamriuka valley. One moremighty step forward has been made ! * * I wrote this description actually on the spot as I saw it. Longafterwards I saw Matsunaga and he informed me that his attack wasnormal, except that he had forty yards interval between companiesinstead of six yards. He had, so he says, two battalions in the firstline ; the men at three paces interval, and the inter
A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war . Battle of the Shaho A THE RIGHT OF THE JAPANESE POSITION NEATO HAND FIGHTING TOOK PLACE IN THK TREI XXVIII. The Battle Continues 229 hills to the north of the Kamriuka valley. One moremighty step forward has been made ! * * I wrote this description actually on the spot as I saw it. Longafterwards I saw Matsunaga and he informed me that his attack wasnormal, except that he had forty yards interval between companiesinstead of six yards. He had, so he says, two battalions in the firstline ; the men at three paces interval, and the interval between com-panies already mentioned. At 1500 yards he halted seven minutes,and then advanced as fast as the men could run to 800 this period there was no check and hardly any firing. At800 yards the line lay down, and opened magazine fire for twominutes. From thence onwards he advanced by rushes of right; next left; then centre double company. Between 800yards and the position the supports doubled up and reinforced whilstthe reserves closed in. At 250 yards from the position there was aslight check for half a minute, when the ch
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