Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — SIEGE METHOD WHICH JAPS MAY LISE AT PORT ARTHUR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SIEGE METHOD WHICH JAPS MAY LISE AT PORT ARTHUR.

The picture shows a method of attacking a fort if high- angle fire fails to reduce It The irregular trenches leading to the parallels are dug so that they cannot be swept by the enemy’s fire. The men dig the trenches under the protection of their own artillery. The parallels are for the protection of the stormiiig parties as they approach nearer and nearer the walls.