THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: PITFALLS AND BARBED WIRE ENTANGLE*MENTS AT LIAO-YANG. Mr Bennet Burleigh, the well-known war correspondent, says : — " Upon every coign of vantage the Russians had constructed forts, dug rows of trenches and pitfalls, and placed wire entai glements. The works were numerous, and deserved to be clasaedl as permanent fortifications. The forts in the second line were protected by double banka of wire entanglements, stretched above pitfalls, dug like huge bowls, eight to ten feet deep, and separated from each other by a narrow rimi of soil less than a foot wide. Sharp stakes wore in many instances set in the bottom of these_j>its." — Prom Illustrated London News.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 47
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109THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR: PITFALLS AND BARBED WIRE ENTANGLE*-MENTS AT LIAO-YANG. Mr Bennet Burleigh, the well-known war correspondent, says:—" Upon every coign of vantage the Russians had constructed forts, dug rows of trenches and pitfalls, and placed wire entai glements. The works were numerous, and deserved to be clasaedl as permanent fortifications. The forts in the second line were protected by double banka of wire entanglements, stretched above pitfalls, dug like huge bowls, eight to ten feet deep, and separated from each other by a narrow rimi of soil less than a foot wide. Sharp stakes wore in many instances set in the bottom of these_j>its."—Prom Illustrated London News. Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 47
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