. Review of reviews and world's work. auvinisticarticles, appears in the , the organ ofthe Liberal Opposition, pub-lished in Stuttgart. Speak-ing of the false reports ofRussian victories circulatedby the newspapers, the offi-cer says : If our official sources of in-formation are occasionally com-pelled, for political reasons, toobserve silence, we can all under-stand the reason. We can allunderstand why silence wasmaintained as to the loss of near-ly eight thousand men at Wafang(Telissu), and also as to the lossby one regiment of its colors, thatsacred object of military
. Review of reviews and world's work. auvinisticarticles, appears in the , the organ ofthe Liberal Opposition, pub-lished in Stuttgart. Speak-ing of the false reports ofRussian victories circulatedby the newspapers, the offi-cer says : If our official sources of in-formation are occasionally com-pelled, for political reasons, toobserve silence, we can all under-stand the reason. We can allunderstand why silence wasmaintained as to the loss of near-ly eight thousand men at Wafang(Telissu), and also as to the lossby one regiment of its colors, thatsacred object of military can all understand why noth-ing was said as to our hasty re-treat before an enemy only equalin numbers. But what we can- not understand is the effort made by journalists to keepthe public in an optimistic frame of mind, to distortfacts as much as possible, and to write of that ofwhich they know nothing. If you will read atten-tively the official report, you will see that, on June 14,the enemy had only two incomplete divisions, while. KKSSI AN RBTROORBSSION. EACH COMMANDER SEEMS IGNORANT OF THE PATE THAT HAS befallen ins PREDECESSORS.— (Based on the story of the Wily Miller.)Prom Kladderadataeh (Berlin). LEADING ARTICLES OF THE MONTH. 347 we had two and a half. Moreover, with us a regi-ment consists of four battalions, save in the EastSiberian units, which have three. We had alsotwo brigades of artillery,—that is, ninety-sixguns,—besides a Cossack horse battery with nineguns (sic), the Primorsky Dragoons and two regi-ments of Cossacks. Our force, as you see, wasnot a small one. To the assistance of the Japan-ese came a division—the staff report says a bri-gade—of infantry, with two or three batteries,while three regiments were sent to us by rail. Butyou talk of this as our heroic battle with an an-tagonist three times our strength ! We have al-ways known how to die (with some exceptions),but this does not mean that an enemy so rare,from a military point of view, as th
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