The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1900-10-03
GETTING SUPPLIES
TO OUR SOLDIERS.
The Enormous Difficulties of Trars s.
portali0n Will Prevent q Success
full Campaign in China.

Toward the end of the Japanese
Chinese war the victorious little m "A
planned an advance on Picking by Wy
of the Gulf of Pechiii landing Al Taaa
and up the Peiho then eighty miles un
to the ancient capital What Pity
they were stayed by their ambitious
Observation-Disclosures. The Gulf Of
Pechili III a wonderful strategical base
of military operations only because
of the holding of the great powers in
and around 1t.
First TO the south at Weihaiwai are
impregnable fortresses and magnih-
cent harbor held by Great Britain TO
the north. right across the gulf, Rus
STA is entrenched with 10000 troops. I'm
mediately opposite. south on the shan
tung peninsula Germany holds VITA
iron grip Kiaochau. At the head of Inc
gulf to the west is Taku. the seaport
town of Tientsin. Here flows thu IA
nous Peiho narthWesterly II Peking.
distance of eighty miles.
Twenty miles west and north Of Pc
king lies a chain of mountains. but
from the foot of this range and around
Picking the country clear To the gulf
or port of Taku is absolutely Hat and
marshy cut up by innumerahie small
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