678 Mr. A. Henry Savage Landor, [May 31, 



the side of the canal under a thick fusillade and occasional shells. 

 The enemy, however, withdrew his artillery in time, covering the 

 retreat of his guns with rifle fire. 



A halt was called here that the Allies might make preparations 

 for an assault on the large town of Tung-chow, which they believed 

 to be strongly garrisoned. 



On the march, the Americans and the British possessed inadequate 

 maps, but somehow or other the British seemed to have a knack of 

 finding their way about and taking care of themselves. The Americans 

 were constantly losing their way, and, exhausted as they were through 

 heat and sickness, were on many occasions given extra suffering by 

 being made to march several miles more than was necessary. 



The American soldier is a splendid soldier, although possibly be is 

 physically not very strong. A great many of them fell out of the 

 ranks on the march to Pekin. 



The Japanese went steadily and well, but looked somewhat over- 

 laden. Some men dropped off, but the little fellows possessed such 

 strong will that when their physical strength failed them their pride 

 made them keep up with the rest. 



The Britishers were taking things in a calm fashion, sprawling 

 along in a pretty easy way. They were well fed and properly looked 

 after, and did not seem to suffer quite so much as some of the other 

 troops. They generally marched in the cool of the morning and 

 evening, which saved the men considerably, instead of doing like the 

 Americans, who were made to march in the hottest hours of the day. 



The thin-legged Indian troops stood the march very well. There 

 was, however, some fever and dysentery among them, and even more 

 so among the British white troops. 



The Kussians stood the march in a magnificent manner. I never 

 saw one single man fall out of the ranks, and although, of course, 

 they felt the heat, they undoubtedly proved themselves to be, physi- 

 cally, the strongest soldiers of the Allies. 



While the other troops took advantage of the day's rest at Chang- 

 chia-wan, the Japanese advance guard pushed on ahead, and at 1 p.m. 

 was again fighting the enemy, with whom they had caught up, and 

 who was running before them. In this race they had reached within 

 3000 yards of Tung-chow, when they perceived with spy-glasses a 

 great number of Chinese soldiers on the city wall as well as outside 

 the town. The Japanese artillery was brought up 1000 yards from 

 the city, and shelled the enemy till four o'clock in the afternoon. 

 There seemed, however, to be no sign that an effective resistance 

 would be offered. 



When a sufficient number of troops had arrived at Tung-chow, 

 the Japanese commenced the attack on the town at midnight. They 

 were fired upon from the wall, the Chinese actually using some 

 of their home-made guns, over a hundred years old. They had 

 spread a quantity of these primitive guns along the wall. Most of 

 them had not even a gun-carriage, and were merely resting on the 



