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duties for supervising the disembarkation In each ship
1 Field officer, with an Assistant Military Officer,
and 1 Naval officer were appointed as a special disem-
barkation staff. They received their orders from two
Naval Captains, one of whom dealt with the loading of
the boats from the ships and their movement to the
shore, and the other with the landing and arrangements
on shore, and these two Captains were under the orders of
the Chief of the Staff of the Army At Yungcheng bay
each ship had its staff as before, but the two Captains
were superseded by a Staff divided into 4 departments.
1. Central. 2. Movement of boats between ships and shore.
3. Landing on shore. 4. Arrangement of stores on shore.
At Kayenko the order of disembarkation was (a) men and
light baggage, (b) Reserva ammunition, forage and
rations, (c) Heavy baggage, and reserve rations, (d)
At Yungcheng the order was (a) Men, light
baggage and portable ratione (of rice prepared in a
special way (b) Horses, (c) Heavy baggage, reserve am-
munition and ordinary food supplies.
Horses.
Fifty ships were employed for carrying the
force across from Talienwan and Port Arthur. The 2nd
Division left Talienwan in 19 ships on the 19th
January and 11 ships on the 20th January, Headquarters
and