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the telegraph which I had assumed must have been carried on by telegraph, for I 
could not have conceived they would have been carried on with such success as 
they were without some such connection. As far as I can gather, after the passage 
of the Yalu the telegraph was used for the connection of the columns pretty 
completely. 
There must have been a large use of the wire; I have been always anxious to 
know how far it did take place because it seemed to me that the series of com- 
plicated movements carried out there could hardly have gone on without some 
such explanation, but it is less complete than I confess I thought it would have 
been, because I had always supposed every movement must have been regulated 
by wire; but the completeness of the organisation which Captain Du Boulay has 
described to us and the perfect training which had taken place beforehand, no 
doubt enabled them to carry out the whole of that vast series of operations with 
much less connection than I should have supposed to have been absolutely necessary 
for the series of movements which were carried through without a hitch. 
At any rate I think at this time it will be sufficient for me to thank Captain 
Du Boulay for the very interesting lecture he has given us and to say how very 
grateful we are to him now that he has just come back from one of the most 
interesting campaigns which have taken place in our time, for telling us all he can 
about it. 
