Port Arthur, Three Months with the Besiegers: A Diurnal of OccurrentsLongmans, Green, and Company, 1905 - 176 páginas |
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Port Arthur, Three Months with the Besiegers: A Diurnal of Occurrents Frederic Villiers Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
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11-inch guns 203 Metre Hill afternoon army arrived assault attack Ban-u-san Banzai Baron Nogi Barry battery bombardment camp cannon captured casualties Chefoo CHINESE HORSE Chosan Cockscomb comes commenced comrades Corea correspondents cover d'Adda Dalny dark dead donga donkey Double Dragon Eleventh Division Emperor enemy enemy's face fighting fire forts FREDERIC VILLIERS front gallant glacis Goto hand headquarters Ho-o-shan hundred hurry IMPERIAL JAPANESE ARMY infantry interpreter iron ration Japanese Japs Kodama last night Liaoyang look machine-guns Manchuria Mikasa miles morning Namakoyama naval Ninth Division Niroshan Nogi's o'clock October officer parallels parapet passed Port Arthur position projectiles ration redoubt REESE LIBRARY Ricarlton rock round Russians Sasebo says searchlights shot shrapnel soldiers Staff star bombs stew Stössel tell terrible thing to-day Tobeshin Togo trench troops Turban turned UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Urhlung village Villiers waiting war correspondent wonder wounded Yamaguchi yards
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Página 22 - It is 1 AM and still the fight rages furiously. Three of the nine searchlights that the Russians appear to possess are playing incessantly on this section of the battlefield, and star-bombs and rockets are bursting continually, their incandescent petals spreading fanlike and falling slowly to the ground.
Página 23 - Russians appear to possess are playing incessantly on this section of the battle-field, and star bombs or rockets are bursting continually, their incandescent petals spreading fanlike and falling slowly to the ground. So brilliant are these lights that the moon, now nearing the horizon, is but a faint slip of silver in the sky. The colour of this night warfare is what Whistler would have revelled in. The deep purple of the mountain against the nocturnal blue, the pale lemon of the moon, the whitish...
Página 23 - ... mouths, and the yellow flash from the exploding shell, all tempered to a mellowness by a thin haze of smoke, ever clinging to hill-top and valley, make the scene the most weird and unique I have ever looked on during all the many wars I have witnessed."1 On the next night Nojine describes the battle from the opposite side: "At n pm...
Página 161 - Not a movement is seen of the black dots on the slope. His work is not required here. He quickly points to the P. fort below. The Japs have passed round and over it, and are pressing against the Chinese wall. The officer turns his men half-left, and then I see a sight I shall always remember. In rhythmical order, the men, standing grandly...
Página 1 - We were ten altogether. Young men of means out for the fun of the thing—some looking for means and out for any newspaper that might want an odd war correspondent; two expert photographers, and the legitimate representatives of the
Página 1 - ... means and out for any newspaper that might want an odd war correspondent; two expert photographers, and the legitimate representatives of the Telegraph, Daily Mail, the Associated Press, The Illustrated London News, and other journals, including the correspondent of the San Francisco Chronicle, Richard Barry, a young Irish-American, who had apparently left his office in such a hurry to catch his boat that he had brought with him nothing but a change of linen and the clothes he stood up in. He...
Página 114 - I keeping them here at headquarters, though they are expecting every day to go to the front. They will never go again ; they have done enough for their country. Those men are the only survivors of the regiment, and I shall see that they go back to their wives and families. But it wouldn't do to let them know this, Mr. Villiers, or they might frustrate my plan by committing suicide.
Página 154 - If all the iron foundries of the wide world were concentrated and going at full blast, it might give some idea of the ceaseless din and earsplitting noise. The Russians are smartly answering, and shells with sharp hideous snarl or long-drawn whines whirl overhead, dropping to right or left of our course, and sometimes on our road...
Página 132 - ... boiling surf. There seems not a foot of the Fort of the Turban that is not ploughed and seared by the Japanese fire. The setting sun casts the right of the conical hill into deep shade, down which runs the deeper shadow of a nullah. Out of the purple depths flashes of cold light quickly...
Página 92 - ... teachers, my mind was at once made up, and, lifting up my voice, I chanted, in the language of the occult, some beautiful stanzas announcing my acceptance of their invitation, which evidently thrilled my hearers with delight. In order to save unnecessary fatigue, we now transferred ourselves through space, and, in the twinkling of an eye, I found myself in the enchanting abode which they called their home, or dama. Here a group of young male chelas were in waiting to attend to our wants ; and...