Boiling drinking water for Japanese camp

Boiling drinking water for Japanese camp

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There was never a war so well prepared as the one between Japan and Russia, at least on the part of the Japanese. [Ever since the day] when Russia interfered in the peace negotiations between Japan and China in ?.. Japan to take an inch of Chinese territory on the Asiatic mainland, the latter... other idea than to take vengeance and to defeat Russia. They went to work...energy and sagacity, working night and day to accomplish their purpose. The...German officers of high rank to drill their army and to instruct them in modern warfare; they armed their men with the most improved modern guns, and provided them with everything that could possibly be of service, down to rubber-covered nippers with which to cut the electric wire entanglements in front of the Russian forts. Each army also had a large number of immense kettles in which to boil the water for the soldiers to drink. [Description is incomplete due to damage to the original object]

1 stereograph. 2 photomechanical prints on stereo card : halftone, stereograph, color ; 9 x 18 cm

1905 Ingersoll, T.W.

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