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 EXAMPLE OF MACHINE GUNS USED IN PURSUIT

A Russian infantry battalion which was retreating by a pontoon bridge across the Taitzu River was almost annihilated by a Japanese cavalry regiment, accompanied by machine guns, which swept the bridge; "and for the first time in this war," adds the Standard correspondent with Kuroki's army, "a machine gun was used