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all the Japanese troops had returned to Port Arthur and Kinchou except 
a small force left behind to hold the island. All the guns on the 
mainland were effectively disabled before the army was withdrawn. 
Peace negotiations then began and though the two remaining 
divisions of the army, the 4th and the Guards, were brought from 
Japan to Talienwan and everything was made ready for an advance 
against Peking, the war came to an end. 
Whilst the peace negotiations were going on I made a short tour 
round the northern battle-fields from Yingtzu, and then waited at 
Port Arthur for the final ratification of the treaty. The Red Cross 
hospital at Yingtzu deserves mention. It was started by an English 
doctor there, assisted by others, both English and American, and was 
most successful, and to show that there was some spirit in the Chinese 
private soldiers, they assured me that a good many men had been 
brought in wounded, had been cured and discharged, and that then 
instead of going to their homes, as they might have done, they went 
once more to the front and were again wounded and brought in. 
At Port Arthur I found the men of the 6th division constantly at 
exercise in the morning, at physical drill, ranning and marching about 
over the hills; and in the evening they used to parade the streets in 
parties of about 20 singing their regimental songs, and they did it all 
as if their lives depended upon it. 
T finally left Port Arthur with army head-quarters and as the ship 
steamed out of harbour the band on shore was playing “The girl I left 
behind me” and “ Auld Lang Syne,” and it will be a long time before 
I forget the hospitality and kindness of the many friends I met in the 
Japanese army. 
DISCUSSION. 
CuarRMAN—Would anyone like to ask Captain Du Boulay any questions or to 
make any remarks on the lecture we have heard. 
CotoneL F. G. SuapE, C.B.—I should like to ask the Lecturer if he could 
tell us in what form the infantry attacked the eastern forts in the general attack 
upon Port Arthur. As he said that at Port Arthur they crossed over open ground 
under a heavy artillery fire, I should like to know in what formation they 
did it. 
Lizur.-CoLonet J. R. JocetyN—l should like to know the range of the salvo 
which knocked over the disappearing gun when it did appear. 
CHarrMAN—I should like to ask if you would kindly tell us what the 
telegraph work was; you have not mentioned, in dealing with the latter part 
of the subject, how the different columns were connected by telegraph. 
REPLY. 
Captain Du Bountay——Hasegawa’s brigade attacked in two lines, one 450 
yards in rear of the other. There were two attacks the right and the left. In 
the right attack the front line consisted of five companies extended—i.e., each 
company had two sections extended and one in support close up. 
CHAIRMAN—In extended order or not? 
