Korea & Her Neighbours — Chapter XVII
“ The great inns were closed or had their shutters wrecked, and the villages and farms were deserted. All tracks converging on Mukden were thronged with troops, not marching, but straggling along anyhow, every tenth man carrying a great silk banner, but few were armed with modern weapons. ”
Korea & Her Neighbours — Chapter XVII
“ As Japan had full command of the sea, all Chinese troops sent to Korea were compelled to march through Manchuria, and undisciplined hordes of Manchu soldiers from Kirin, Tsitsihar, and othern northern cities poured through Mukden at the rate of 1,000 a day, having distinguished them- selves on the southern march by seizing on whatever they could get hold of, riotously occupying inns without payment, beat- ing the innkeepers, and wrecking Christian chapels, not from anti-Christian but from anti foreign feeling. ”
Korea & Her Neighbours — Chapter XVII
“ Those who had rifles and modern weapons at all had them of all makes ; so cartridges of twenty different sorts and sizes were huddled together without any attempt at classification, and in one open space all sorts were heaped on the ground, and the soldiers were fitting them to their arms, sometimes trying eight or ten before finding one to suit the weapon, and throwing them back on the heap ! There were neither medi- cal arrangements nor an ambulance corps, Chinese custom being to strip the wounded and leave them, “wounded men being of no use.” ”
