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Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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your eggs in one basket. The entire Japanesenavy is at present in active service under Adniiral Togo. He has only five battleships, andit will not be possible within the next year or sofor Japan to build another first-class fighting-ship. During the war, neutral countries are notpermitted to sell her any. Admiral Togo andthe naval department at Tokio have not forgot-ten the friendly advice given Japan at theclose of her war with China, and backed up bythe combined fleets of Russia, Germany, andFrance. The island empire wants no more ofsuch friendly advice, and Admiral Togo hasbeen too shrewd and cautious to risk, for thespectacular advantage of an open-sea fight, theright arm of his nation, which alone would com-mand respect in case ofa possible European anti-Japanese coalition atthe end of the war.Therefore, not even forthe sake of the dramaticunities, or the newspa-per correspondents ofthe rest of the world, hasAdmiral Togo been will-ing to risk his great bat-tleships unnecessarily.
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SCENE OF THE FAR-EASTERN NAVAL OPERATIONS. (Showing Admiral Rozhcstvenskis route.) It may besaid that theattention ofthe whole world hadbeen fixed on the Balticfleet and its probablefate when, in the firstfew days of April, Ad-miral Rozhestvenskiwas reported to havepassed into the ChinaSea, part of his fleet go-ing through the Straitsof Malacca and partthrough the SundaStrait. The Russians,steaming slowly north-ward, had been noted(on April 11) passing Singapore. Several dayslater they were reported at the Anambas Islands,and their hospital ship, the Orel, entered the har-bor of Saigon, French Cochin China, for supplies.The Chinese waters are at all times scoured bythe navies of Great Britain, France, and Holland,and there is always a small force of Americanwarships in Philippine harbors. The Russians,therefore, were reported at many different pointsand small islands, and the world hourly awaitedthe great battle which had been confidently ex-pected. By April 19, the Russians, after co

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