At the decisive battle of Mukden, the silk-worm army, with a million legs, crept against the Russian hosts in a vast crescent, a hundred miles from end to end.

By means of this glistening red wire, the various batteries and regiments were organized into fifteen divisions.

Each group of three divisions was wired to a general, and the five generals were wired to the great Oyama himself, who sat ten miles back of the firing-line and sent his orders.
Whenever a regiment lunged forward, one of the soldiers carried a telephone set.

If they held their position, two other soldiers ran forward with a spool of wire.

In this way and under fire of the Russian cannon, one hundred and fifty miles of wire were strung across the battlefield.