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144 THE SIEGE OF PORT ARTHUR
each administrative unit, and taken to the
different camps on horseback. Each unit—that
is, each battalion of infantry, each battery,
squadron, and company of artillery, cavalry, and
engineers respectively—had for this service sixty-
five men and about forty horses.
The peculiar conditions at the theatre of war
of a large native population willing and capable
of doing coolie work for the invading armies,
made the organization of the transport service
excellent though it was—so wholly different from
what would be necessary during a European war,
that no lessons of any real value to our army can
be derived from it. The same is, for obvious
reasons, the case with their commissariat. The
only debatable point is whether it would not be
worth a trial to make rice, which is both nourish-
ing and easy to pack and handle, a more pro-
minent item of our soldiers’ rations. This 1
humbly submit to men who are interested in these
questions.
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