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PORT ARTHURThe relief of Port Arthur had ceased to be an important objective ofKuropatkin before he planned his Heikautai attack. But Yoshiaki and Yoshisuke turned in theirtracks and delivered a rear attack which scattered the besiegers. Local disturbances hadcompelled them to leave Yamaguchi, where their disputes with Buddhistpriests had become so violent that an official proscription of theWestern religion was pronounced. ts andescorting some Chinese subjects who had been cast away on theJapanese coast or carried captive thither.

COINSAnother important feature of Hideyoshi's era was the use of coins. il posts; Yamaga Soko; combined with Shinto; Japanese schools of;hold on educated class; vendettaConscription, first (689 A. wereposted, Katsuiye instructed his principal general, Sakuma Morimasa,to lead the reserve force of fifteen thousand m *Murdoch, in his History of Japan, says that in three yearsTadatsune's aggressions reduced the Kwanto to a tangled wilderness.