TERRIBLE ODDS.
Twenty-two warships to three torpedo boats 1 An official announcement of Japan's price of victory has at last come to hand, and this is the incomprehensible position it disoloaea. Such terrible odds, apart from their bearing oa the present war, open up avenues of retrospective musings 0n..a1l the old, and even present clay theories' regarding modern warfare, where iron clad g6liath3 with . their death-dealing engines meet m mortal combat. Tho certainty of the mutual annihilation of two opposing fleets is proved to be no more a certainty than in the days of the old wooden three-deckers. It is the man at fcha gun, and the master-brain directing the signal halyards that still play tho allimporUant part. Undoubtedly this striking announcement of Japan's absurdly small losses takes precedence in the war hews of to day, and is in itself a whole story.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 405, 2 June 1905, Page 2
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