A RUSSIAN TRENCH CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE IN A NIGHT ATTACK. The First great battle to be fought with modern arms showed that the fate of great, campaigns still depends on brute courage and brute butchery. Most of the critical points in the defence of Liao-Yang were taken by night attacks. In some instances the Russians, having lost a position, made a successful counter, and the Japanese, surging back, again regained it. The bodies of white and yellow men were mingled under the feet of the living, who thrust at each other with the bayonet. The dead were buried by shovelling the parapet of the trench into the ditch. Copyright photographs from Collier's Weekly.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXIII, Issue XXIV, 10 December 1904, Page 28

A RUSSIAN TRENCH CAPTURED BY THE JAPANESE IN A NIGHT ATTACK. The First great battle to be fought with modern arms showed that the fate of great, campaigns still depends on brute courage and brute butchery. Most of the critical points in the defence of Liao-Yang were taken by night attacks. In some instances the Russians, having lost a position, made a successful counter, and the Japanese, surging back, again regained it. The bodies of white and yellow men were mingled under the feet of the living, who thrust at each other with the bayonet. The dead were buried by shovelling the parapet of the trench into the ditch. Copyright photographs from Collier's Weekly.