THE LOST OPPORTUNITY.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 56, 3 September 1904, Page 13

THE LOST OPPORTUNITY.

As regards tho contention thnt the Japaneeo have missod their opportunity it may bo pointed out that tho gist of tho mutter lies in this, that a« long as the rains continue to make- the plains impa<»«blo no victories won in the hills, where movement is always more or less practicable, can havo decisivo results. Rursuit of tho beaten, force must cease at the edge of Napoleon's fifth olomont, discovered in Poland—the niud. Threo wceka ago tlofent for the Russians meant annihilation, and no question of supply dillicultios would for ono moment have restrained a l«ader of the first rank. Ho would havo lived on tho enemy's captured stores, as Napoleon did in Italy, Bavaria — indeed in ovcry one of his victorious campaigns: and tbo fate of the vanquished would have troubled him but littlo.x Such n blow would havo goue further to shattering Russia's power than any number of less drastic successes. But tho chanco has gono never to return. — Standard.