. Mediæval and modern history . Fig. 107. Field MarshalOyama. (From stereograph,copyright, 1904, by the H. Company, New York). Scale of 111168 § 687] THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 607 had forced Japan to give up Port Arthur and the territory inManchuria ceded to her by the terms of the treaty with Chinaafter the Chino-Japanese War of 1894 (sect. 685), she herselfsecured from China a lease of the most strategic portion ofthis same territory, and straightway proceeded to transform PortArthur into a great naval and military fortress, which was tobe the Gibraltar of the East. Moreover, she occupi
. Mediæval and modern history . Fig. 107. Field MarshalOyama. (From stereograph,copyright, 1904, by the H. Company, New York). Scale of 111168 § 687] THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR 607 had forced Japan to give up Port Arthur and the territory inManchuria ceded to her by the terms of the treaty with Chinaafter the Chino-Japanese War of 1894 (sect. 685), she herselfsecured from China a lease of the most strategic portion ofthis same territory, and straightway proceeded to transform PortArthur into a great naval and military fortress, which was tobe the Gibraltar of the East. Moreover, she occupied the wholeof the great Chinese province of Manchuria. Notwithstandingshe had given solemn pledges that the occupation of this territoryshould be only temporary, she not only violated these pledgesbut made it evident by her acts that she intended, besides mak-ing Manchuria a part of the Russian Empire, also to seize Russian control of this stretch of seaboard and commandof the Eastern seas meant that Japan would be hemmed in bya perpetual blockade and her existence as an independent nationimperiled. It would place he
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