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CHAPTER V
THE OPENING OF THE BALL
ON the morning of August 19th, the day
selected for the opening of the general
assault on Port Arthur, the correspon-
dents attached to the Third Army were presented
to General Nogi. He received us at his head-
quarters in Shuangtaikou in the most amiable
manner, and made his interpreter introduce us
individually and tell him what our nationality
was, and what papers we represented. Then he
said :
“You have come a very long way, gentlemen,
to see this war, and you have had to wait very long
before you have been allowed to the front; but
you have been very fortunate in arriving just at
the right moment to see the conclusion of a
victorious campaign ”
—remarkable words, which
bear out my assertions in previous chapters, and
which we should come to think of many a time
during the following months. After enjoining us
to take good care of our health, he closed the
interview by saying that he regretted he would be
so busy for the next few days that he would be
unable to see us, but he hoped he would be able
to do so again in the near future.
General Nogi impressed me at that first inter-
view very favourably. He was a handsome man
—as Japanese beauty goes—and though his full
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