The cost! The fleeing ones left five hundred corpses in the four trenches. The others paid seven times that price—killed and wounded—to turn across the page of the world’s warfare that word Nanshan, in company with two others, perhaps above them—Balaklava and Missionary Ridge.
Now who pays for this war?
[Chapter Four]
THE JAPANESE KITCHENER
Headquarters, Third Imperial Army, Before Port Arthur, Oct. 12th:
“Goddama’s here!”
“Who?”
“General Goddam—what’s his name?”