The Russo- Japanese War Book

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: (3) First Japanese Army.?Summary of events in Korea, 8th March to 3rd April 1904. Notes by Captain B. Vincent, Royal Artillery, Pingyang, 28th March to 3rd April 1904. One company of Japanese infantry reached Pingyang 21st February from Haiju, where it had landed. This, together with local civilians, held the city until reinforcements arrived 27th February. On 28th February an advanced party of Russian cavalry came to within three miles of the city and sent its scouts forward. These were fired at from the walls, two horses are said to have been shot, and the Russians retreated towards Anju. By 15th March, probably all the 12th Division (Lieut- General Inouye), which had landed at Chemulpo, was in or north of Pingyang. I am informed that about 22,000 men, inclusive of the 12th Division and " military coolies," landed at Chemulpo. Chinampo was open on or about 7th March, and on 9th March two hundred reservists of the Guard Division landed there. The first transport containing part of the Guard Division arrived there on 13th March. At Pingyang a bridge of boats was laid across the ice on the Taitong River, but on the 13th the ice began to break up. On the 14th the Japanese crossed in two places by ferry boats pulled by relays of soldiers. By 17th March the river was free from ice up to Pingyang. According to the Japanese official report, a cavalry regiment reached Anju without opposition on 10th March, a battalion of the 14th Regiment on llth March. Also one battalion left Pingyang for the north on 16th March, and one (of the 14th Regiment) on 17th March. About this time the Chechen River at Anju became the boundary between the Japanese and Russians. In two affairs of patrols one Japanese was killed, and the Koreans report two Russians wounded. The dista...Read More