The enemy's guns were most effectively placed in the terraces on the height. Moreover, the wire entanglements, with which the ' approach to the guns was protected, were the most powerful equipment in modern defensive works. Wire entenglements are ist-works of wire interwoven between poles three or four fest high. The net-work usually has a width of 15 or 10 feet and extends several hundred yards. It is impossible to pass over it at the double or to crawl under the wires. Nothing can stop the advance of the troops so effectively as these entanglemelits, The latter, however, are never constructed over the entire surface of ground, but are divided into sections, through the openings of which the defending army can effect a sortie. When, however, the attacking army directs its way to these passages, it must be prepared to mest the enemy's quickfirers. When dealing with an enemy equipped with wire-entanglements, we must first silence the enemy's guns and then dispatch the infanty, led by the engineering corps armed with shears and other tools for clearing the antanglaments..it.ax long as the enemy tains any available guns or rifles, the feat cannot be performed without a heavy loss of mon. One is apt to say that Nanshan might have been taken by some other methods than those carried out by our army. But if we had hesitated on account of the probable casualties, we should have reaped a result similar to that which befell the Russians at Plevna, and have lost many more mon than was actually the case.
Nanshan or Nankuanling.
Some say that Russia should have coucentrated her forces at Nankuanling instead of at Nanshan. The lecturer, however, re-this criticism as being too hasty. The question could not be decided until we knew more definitely about the strength of the Russian force. If it was suflicioatly large, it would certainly have been wise for the Russian commander to have held Nan-kuan ling, which affords a far better deploying position than, Nanshas. According to the Russian official report of the Nanshan it was announced that Russia quite inconsistent with facts, and remarked that there was no longer any doubt that Russia had intended to check the advance
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