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CHAPTER XII
SIGNAL AND COMMISSARIAT
SERVICE
I
T was not only the teeming life and the
animated scenes which gave such a different
aspect to the country occupied by the besieg-
ing army. The whole formation of the ground
w^as changed under the busy hands of the
engineering troops. A network of roads was
built, not only on the plains, connecting the
different camps with each other and with General
Nogi’s headquarters, the commissariat depots, and
the railway station, but also up the steep hill-sides
to the artillery positions and over the passes and
lower ridges of Fenghoangshan range to the
troops at the front. About fifty kilometres of
Decauville railways were laid, and hundreds of
miles of telegraph and telephone wires stretched
all over the country. Camps and hospitals,
cemeteries and crematoriums, workshops and
signal stations, trenches and bomb-proofs were
built, hills were cut out in terraces, while in the
villages many of the houses had been destroyed
by fire or shells, others occupied by troops, others
again changed to storehouses, or stables, or
hospitals, so that when the natives who fled from
their homes returned, they would have some
difficulty in recognizing the old place.
Following the telegraph or telephone wires.
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