CHAPTER XXVII

The Russian Army Retires on Liao-yang--“To-day the Russians are very Obstinate”--A Dense Fog--Russians Retire on their Second Line--Five Months in the Mountains--The Freedom of the Plains--Leisurely Russian Retirement--The Moral of Long Range Artillery--Startling Flight on the Last Defences--Within Fifteen Hundred Yards of the Enemy’s Trenches--Deficiency of Japanese Field Signalling--In Prosperous Am-ping.