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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
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ships without mishap.After that, let us face thesefacts : Aladivostok is infe-rior as a port to what PortArthur was at the time ofthe beginning of hostilities.The Port Arthur squadronwas superior to the Balticsquadron ; the personnel ofthe Port Arthur squadronwas as much superior to thepersonnel of the Balticsquadron as the vessels atPort Arthur were superiorto those under Rozhestven-ski. In fact, and in spite of the geneial impres-sion to the contrary, those men at Port Artliurwere the flower of the Russian navy. The dockfacilities of Port Arthur were superior to thoseof Vladivostok. It is a matter of history howthe Port Arthur squadron fared m the game ofgaining the command of the sea over the shipsof Admiral Togo. CAN ROZHESTVENSKI REACH VLADIVOSTOK ? Only a miracle can steer to port these goodships of vVdmiral Rozliestvenski in perfect healthand without accident, through either tlie Koreanor Tsugaru mined fields, and through somethinglike three thousand miles of unfriendly waters.
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ADMIRAL TOGO AND FITS CHIEF OF STAFF 0.\ THE FOKEDECK OF THE MIKASA. For an ordinary man supposedly blessml with theusual measure of common sense to accuse theRussian admiral of taking this desperate andmeaningless way to Vladivostok is to insult hisintelligence. Certainly, none of his Nippon ad-mirers are guilty of it. As for the third course mentioned, that of en-joying himself in the waters off Cochin Chinawith such French friendliness as he couhl com-mand, it is not an unreasonable one. In thatcase, all will be left to the ability of the diplo-matists at St. Petersburg. And in the handsof a number of able men of Russia,—Count Cas-sini, for example,—this presence of a threat atNippons complete commaiul of sea, however 686 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^/EIV OF REVIEWS. sliadowy. might be turned into a weapon of nomean magnitude, especially if the diplomatistsof Nippon happen to show once again, as tlieyhave shown so many times before, tliat the back-bone of Nippon is almost completel

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