—¥iom the Graphic. THE FORTUNE OF WAR: DEFEATED BUT NOT DISuRaCED AT SHAi_,O. Half a battalion of Japanese infantry were advancing on a village, when they weie fir. < upon point blark by a buttery oi Ru-m.u! uu .>-. The Japanese advanced by iti-ti^ tin- giowml affoidn.g good covei especially as just in front oi the guns there was a small ravine. On went the Japanese, firing between Uhm rushes, until, when ♦ho fpirl charge came it was seen that all the horses at the battiM \ hncl been shot. The gun er= unable to get their guns away, had fought them to the last, when sunendcr became mevit..b'e. A Japanese «o dier. outstripping Ins comrades found ') m=' f none in front of the guns and the oPicei m command of the battery pie-enting hi^ revolver as a sign of enrionder.

Otago Witness, Issue 2672, 31 May 1905, Page 42

—¥iom the Graphic. THE FORTUNE OF WAR: DEFEATED BUT NOT DISuRaCED AT SHAi_,O. Half a battalion of Japanese infantry were advancing on a village, when they weie fir. < upon point blark by a buttery oi Ru-m.u! uu .>-. The Japanese advanced by iti-ti^ tin- giowml affoidn.g good covei especially as just in front oi the guns there was a small ravine. On went the Japanese, firing between Uhm rushes, until, when ♦ho fpirl charge came it was seen that all the horses at the battiM \ hncl been shot. The gun er= unable to get their guns away, had fought them to the last, when sunendcr became mevit..b'e. A Japanese «o dier. outstripping Ins comrades found ') m=' f none in front of the guns and the oPicei m command of the battery pie-enting hi^ revolver as a sign of enrionder.