Since Viscount TANI said that high-ranking officers need not to go into battle, all of us sipped chestnut porridge, and jumped at the opportunity to stew the meat of military horses shot dead and ate it.
其所で、子爵は、幹部は、戦闘線に出なくともいいのであろうからと云ふので、余等一同は、栗の粥を啜り、砲弾で死んだ軍馬の肉を、是幸いと取って煮染にして喰ふ。