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Title: Peaceful personalities and warriors bold
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Villiers, Frederic, 1851-1922
Subjects: War correspondents
Publisher: London New York : Harper
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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sed, and for that the worldalso, by Togos audacity and, some said, his notquite legitimate game of attacking the Port ArthurRussian squadron before war was declared. Thequiet little man with his arms akimbo, placid face,and the nimble brains, was playing his old trick—that every one seemed to have forgotten—when heattacked the Kowshing. He knew that war wasinevitable, so he got in with the first blow. Togo received me most kindly when I boardedhis flagship, the Mikasa, and chatted to me inEnglish remarkably well, for he had served his timeas a naval cadet in British waters on board H.M.S.Worcester. As usual, when the Japanese wish tobe civil to Europeans, the proverbial champagne wasopened, but I noticed that his glass was hardlytouched. He asked me whether I had seen the tenmiles of booms protecting the inlets and coves ofthe Isles of the Elliot group, in which havens hisships could lay secure at their rendezvous from tor-pedo-boat attacks. Of this security he seemed very I-.8 s.
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Peaceful Personalities and Warriors Bold proud and sanguine. But though his enemy wasany but a venturesome one, he never overlooked thepossibility of a sudden cotip-de-7nain by the Russians.One could see this manifested everywhere, especiallyin the precautions taken at night. When darkness setin his ships seemed to melt into the general gloom.Not even a pipe or cigarette was allowed on deckfor fear of a spark of light giving warning to theenemy. And during the night his fleet might havebeen at the bottom of the ocean for any sign of lifeit made on the surface of the waters. It was aweird sight, of a morning before the dawn, to seethe phantom fleet grow into being again from outthe gloaming, and then the vigilant work of theblockade of Port Arthur commenced for the day. Field-Marshal Oyama I first of all came acrossin 1894, when he conducted the campaign againstthe Chinese. He is a podgy little man, with clean-shaven, slightly pock-marked face. Very geniallyand kindly he received me wh

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