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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