[83] Of 72 squadrons and _sotnias_, 4 mounted scout parties, and 22 guns. [84] Including thirty siege-guns. [85] Its garrison was not more than two battalions. [86] Two regiments of the four in this division had been sent to reinforce the Composite Rifle Corps, and one regiment to reinforce the 1st Siberians. [87] General Grippenberg could not use the telephone himself, as he was somewhat deaf. [88] Out of the 80,000 men of the drafts which had arrived. [89] According to the programme of the arrival of the troops, I calculated on increasing my reserve by three and four Rifle brigades, but they arrived more than ten days late. [90] For operations against Oku. [91] [? Houton.—ED.] [92] One was ordered to support General Launits. [93] [The body of Vol III. in the original deals in great detail with the battle of Mukden, and is omitted in this translation.—ED.] [94] Except from February 27 to March 1. [95] 12.20 p.m., February 28. [96] 3.25 p.m., March 2. [97] 6.45 a.m., March 5. [98] [Query north-west.—ED.] [99] In addition to five and a half battalions of the 41st Division. [100] Sixteen battalions of the 19th Corps, concentrated at Sha-ling-pu under my orders on March 2; sixteen battalions of Golembatovski’s; and eight battalions of Churin’s division, detained by Kaulbars on the way to join the troops operating against Nogi. [101] Major-General Krauze’s report. [102] And fifty battalions collected towards Hsin-min-tun were thus left with two squadrons of the Niejinsk Dragoons. [103] In the afternoon of the 11th this division began to move on Tieh-ling; it had only suffered small loss during the battle. [104] [Only the concluding portion of what follows in the original is given here; the remainder is an exact repetition of what has been more than once recapitulated.—ED.] [105] [This extract is, by the kind permission of the editor, reprinted from _McClure’s Magazine_, where it appeared as an editorial note upon the article on these memoirs, published in September, 1908.—ED.] [106] _Osvobojdenie_, No. 75, Stuttgart, August 10, 1905. No question has ever been raised, I think, with regard to the authenticity of these letters and telegrams; but if there were any doubt of it, such doubt would be removed by a comparison of them with General Kuropatkin’s memoirs.—G. K. [107] Asakawa, who seems to have investigated this matter carefully, says that the original contract for this concession dated as far back as August 26, 1896, when the Korean King was living in the Russian Legation at Seoul as a refugee.—“The Russo-Japanese Conflict,” by K. Asakawa, London, 1905, p. 289. [108] The italics are mine.—G. K. [109] [Extracted from Chapter X.—ED.] [110] At the junction of roads near Newchuang. [111] The 21st and 23rd East Siberian Rifle Regiments. [112] Of these a brigade of the 6th East Siberian Rifle Division and one regiment of the 1st Army Corps were sent by my orders.