[102] And fifty battalions collected towards Hsin-min-tun were thus left with two squadrons of the Niejinsk Dragoons.
[103] In the afternoon of the 11th this division began to move on Tieh-ling; it had only suffered small loss during the battle.
[104] [Only the concluding portion of what follows in the original is given here; the remainder is an exact repetition of what has been more than once recapitulated.—Ed.]
[105] [This extract is, by the kind permission of the editor, reprinted from McClure’s Magazine, where it appeared as an editorial note upon the article on these memoirs, published in September, 1908.—Ed.]
[106] Osvobojdenie, No. 75, Stuttgart, August 10, 1905. No question has ever been raised, I think, with regard to the authenticity of these letters and telegrams; but if there were any doubt of it, such doubt would be removed by a comparison of them with General Kuropatkin’s memoirs.—G. K.
[107] Asakawa, who seems to have investigated this matter carefully, says that the original contract for this concession dated as far back as August 26, 1896, when the Korean King was living in the Russian Legation at Seoul as a refugee.—“The Russo-Japanese Conflict,” by K. Asakawa, London, 1905, p. 289.
[108] The italics are mine.—G. K.
[109] [Extracted from [Chapter X].—Ed.]
[110] At the junction of roads near Newchuang.
[111] The 21st and 23rd East Siberian Rifle Regiments.