JAPANESE MILITARY ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTING A ROUGH TIMBER ROAD FOR THE TROOPS IN KOREA. The success of the Korean campaign was due to the swift construction of good'roads and bridges, which a.so secured the line of retreat in case of need. During the advance to the Yalu the Japanese engineers have proved their akil'l in improvising roads. Even the flooded rice-fields proved no obstacle, for they felled trees and constructed log roads as in the above illustration Many of the existing Korean roads have been practically remade. (From the Illustrated London News.) (Otago Witness, 29 June 1904)

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JAPANESE MILITARY ENGINEERS CONSTRUCTING A ROUGH TIMBER ROAD FOR THE TROOPS IN KOREA. The success of the Korean campaign was due to the swift construction of good'roads and bridges, which a.so secured the line of retreat in case of need. During the advance to the Yalu the Japanese engineers have proved their akil'l in improvising roads. Even the flooded rice-fields proved no obstacle, for they felled trees and constructed log roads as in the above illustration Many of the existing Korean roads have been practically remade. (From the Illustrated London News.) (Otago Witness, 29 June 1904)

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