Fortunino Matania

1881 - 1963

from the Russo Japanese War of 1905

Japanese infantry assault a hilltop

a sea-engagement

Russian sailors taken aboard a Japanese warship

left : Russian soldiers in flight

right : Japanese soldiers remove a dead comrade from a fox-hole

5 illustrations by Fortunino Matania, all visibly less compentent than his later Great War work

taken from 1905 issues of 'de Vlaamse Illustratie', a Belgian newsweekly

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