NOTES ON THE WAR.
i The bombardment of Poet Arthur con* ■ tinue*!, but whether it is preparatory to an- ! • .other assault or only intended to harass then ■ garrison we are not told. ■ The.-osttct iipiitions now held by the besipgpirs hay? .i«ot 1 been marie quite c'leaiV - If they - have cip- j tured the fort" credited to them, tliey rnu*t ■''■How be g for the final esiaviU. find captured Wfinsftai, on Table Freight!/, j: : but it is dwMfnl .wbolH»r, they have wit ; ► Et.'jßshan.' In Manchuria little is doing b>r yond on occasional affair •• of .• ontrwts. If Field-Marshal Oyama is waiting for the. x ßw> •; stains to move, ho, may have to ; w#«* for a j ■ lonar time. pe it is not lively General TCuro- ■ • pstkin has ■|te equipment ; far operations at 5 any distance from the railway. I . I Colonel• • Bepington, ..an English military:, • Writer, m-gei ■: that Japan's true policy is j ! never. to lobti touch with the, sea, where her , strength r lies. ; She must aim, lie says, at concentration of strength and conservation of energy, seeking; to wake the war too; ' difficult ; and' 1 tea onerous for Russia to put*j ' sue with any hope of final victory. "It .is, to the interest of Japan to .learn how ,:bf>9t. , to wear down .Russian tenacity and to Out-; ■ stay her powerful antagonist.'* ,It ' would j seem, indeed," that this - has . been j Japan s, policy all through the war. Admiral Togo; •«': damaged the Russian ships at every opj>or- '. tunity, but refrained from? fighting at close » quarters fron* fear of losing soma of his ' ships. Then, sinfce Ltoo-yang was cap--1 tured, Field-Marshal Oyam# hi* bei>n eon- • tent to lie behind his defences until attacked. 3 THe Japanese aim is to bleed Russia todeath in Southern Manchuria. As, Colonel f -'Repmgton points out, it will be. necessary• for Japan to have a reserve of strength at the close of the war if she desires to secure fair terms of peace. • ■ . ?
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12713, 16 November 1904, Page 5
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