. Review of reviews and world's work. is anything but compli-mentary to the imperial war office. The anti-peace party, however, still talks of sending mento the front, and it is reported that the garrisonat Vladivostok has already been increased to100,000 men. On the other hand, Japan is pre--paring to double her present army in the to reports from Tokio, early in April,the Japanese Manchiirian fighting forces willnumber, by the coming autumn, more than onemillion men actually in the field. The Baltic In watching the slow progress of theChinese Russian Baltic fleet toward Chine
. Review of reviews and world's work. is anything but compli-mentary to the imperial war office. The anti-peace party, however, still talks of sending mento the front, and it is reported that the garrisonat Vladivostok has already been increased to100,000 men. On the other hand, Japan is pre--paring to double her present army in the to reports from Tokio, early in April,the Japanese Manchiirian fighting forces willnumber, by the coming autumn, more than onemillion men actually in the field. The Baltic In watching the slow progress of theChinese Russian Baltic fleet toward ChineseWaters. waters the shrewd advisers of theEmperor of Japan have held that AdmiralRozhestvenski could have one of only twopossible missions, either of which the Japanesenavy was confidently regarded as being ableto frustrate. It had been believed at Tokio,and by students of the situation all over theworld, that, considering the lack of modernfighting units in the Russian fleet and its ad-mitted inferiority to that under Admiral Togo,. GENERAL. DBAQOMIBOfF. (The Czars military adviser.) the real object of Admiral Rozhestvenski inChinese waters had been, not to seek battlewith the Japanese, but to so impress the rest ofthe world with a show of strength, and to sooccupy the attention of the Japanese fleet, thatin the negotiations for peace which were believedto be in progress early in April the powers ofthe world would combine to modify Japansdemands. There had been, however, a pos-sibility that Admiral Rozhestvenski, in thecourse of his long voyage from home waters,and particularly during his stay north of Mada-gascar, had so brought up the efficiency of hisvessels and crews that he would make an actualdash for Vladivostok, Russias only remainingstronghold in the far East, and accept battle withAdmiral Togo if the latter should offer it. Admiral Togos Problem. The problem before Admiral Togo asthe Russian Baltic fleet approachedthe China Sea had become infinitelymore complicated
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