RETREATING RUSSIANS.
THE HARDSHIPS THEY ENDURED. JAPANESE BATTLE TACTICS. (Received June 26, 10.30 a.m.) St. Petersburg, June 25. The Russkoje Slowo, published in Moscow, describes the hardships endured by General Stakleberg's army after the battle of Te-H-sze. Many of the men left their overcoats in the trenches, and during the retreat they had to sleep on ground sodden with rain. All those that have come in were famishing for food. Their only complaint is that in the battle the Russian artillery was inferior to that of the Japanese. They say that the Japanese had made a minute study of the country. They knew every fold of the ground, and their shelling of the Russian positions was ir. st exact. The shell section of the:' mtteries was most skilfully masked and could not be detected. During the battle on the 15th the positions of three of the Japanese batteries were never ascertained. They also say that the Japanese had picked marksmen on the heights in apparently inaccessible spots. Then others descended and appeared where they were least expected. Th© Japanese batteries were connected by telephone and by wireless telegraphy.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12601, 27 June 1904, Page 5
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