[32] Two in the two brigades, and two on the divisional staff.
[33] [Service with the colours in Russia has been reduced generally from five to three years.—ED.]
[35] [By this expression is meant a land not belonging to Russia.—ED.]
[36] [The term used by common folk in Russia when addressing men of higher birth.—ED.]
[37] Owing to famine in the Kholm district in the years just before the war, the reservists in it were called up later than those in the neighbouring districts, and the majority of them were consequently stationed on the line of communications.
[38] [Summary courts-martial under martial law.—ED.]
[39] With two-wheeled baggage-carts, the number has to be increased by an additional fifty-four men.
[40] Cooks and mess caterers, eighteen of each—_i.e._, sixteen per company, and two with scout sections, one mounted, one dismounted.
[42] [This is taking a regiment at 4,000—_i.e._, the men actually in the firing-line and not employed specially—for scout sections, etc.—ED.]
[43] I several times reported to the War Minister that the despatch of drafts to fill up wastage in the units already at the front was much more necessary than the despatch to us of fresh units.
[45] Colonel Ujin’s pack-telephone system, which I tried in Manchuria, is a very good one.
[47] Artillery regiments to be subordinate in all respects as regards command to the divisional commander. The commander of an artillery brigade must technically superintend and inspect all batteries with an army corps.
[49] One sapper battalion and one company of sappers per division; one mining and two telegraph companies as corps troops.
[50] [_Sic._ This word is rather misleading. Some formation less than a regiment is meant.—ED.]
Voiskovoi Starshina = Lieutenant-Colonel } Esaoul = Captain } Of Sotnik = Lieutenant } Cossacks. Khorunji = Cornet }
[52] In the wars with Turkey and Persia, in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
[53] [The first portion of this chapter, which is a recapitulation of what has already been written in Chapters I. to VII., has been omitted from this translation. What is now given touches more upon the war itself.—ED.]
[54] [About 1–1/3 miles to the inch.—ED.]
[55] [_Sic._ Killed and wounded (see p. 207, Vol I.).—ED.]