Identifier: cu31924071165637 (find matches)
Title: The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v. 1-3 (no. 1-10), Apr. 1904-Sept. 1905
Year: 1904 (1900s)
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Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: Tokyo : Kinkodo-shosekikabushiki-kaisha (The Kinkodo publishing co)
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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ten thousand soldiers, andthis is quite true with the. Japaneseofficers. So, correspondingly, their lossis the more to be lameivt:ed. Every oneof them has had in the, beginning topass through the established course ofeducation and training, and then beejiappointed an officer. Promotion ac-companies worth and merits only. Oneofficer, whose skill silenced the enemy*sguns during the fight at a certain fort,was Col. Sakai, whose knowledge of various military schools and also attheCollege of Engineering. His work onBallistics is an indubitable proof of hisscientific knowledge and military abil-ities. In ordinary conversation hewas generally very reserved, but, oncemounted on his platform, his eloquentwords seemed to kiiowno limits, and hegave such clear expositions of the mostcomplicated theories that his lectureroom was always packed with anearnest anxious audience of students. When he was appointed chief of a regiment, there was a general fear that he would find some difficulty from the
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The Encampment of our Troops near Port Arthur.
WAR TIME ANECDOTES. 691
fact that the officers who were to come under his direction had been his old classmates or old superiors. But to the general surprise, he managed them like an old general in a month or so, and alsolutely won their respect and affection. He was the 4th son of Mr. Takagi, a Samurai of Kuwana, and having early lost his father was brought up by his mother who is now 73 years old. No doubt, this worthy old lady's character influenced her son. When condoled with by her friends on her son's death, she remarked that it was nothing unusual for a Samurai to havefallen on the field ; they said it was a great honor, but he had simply done w^ho received a serious wound on hishead, and a cut above the right earand was pierced through the neck onthe left side right to the tongue, inthe fierce cavalry encounter at Pu-lang-tien, is now lying in the No. 1. BranchHospital in Hiroshima, where he wasrecently interviewed by a newspapercorre

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