The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-01
.'LIIAO.YANG BATTLE
IS UNPARALLELED
Of Men Engaged Beats
Il AllRecords Since Days Of
5@ the Ancients. II

spsoial toaThs Journal
Chicago, Sept. 1.--Walter Wellman,
In Washington special to the Record
Herald, says:
One Of he greatest battles Of modern
times now Us being fought around Lao
Mta1y men mere say ~ Is n p abat
battle beats all records since the days
If the ancisnts and their armies OF
prodigious, tho somewhat mythical,
Proportions. According to data on file
At the military information division o OF
than 100000 troops engaged in the ter,
J Ian ssseS and shout $4,000 Russians:
These figures include the reserves, of |
course, which at any moment may be /
thrown into the action. 1t is .polntedt
ont OIL by military STUDENTS that if these
hgnres are correct these armies exceed
81 magnitude any which ever con-
fronted one another since the invention
Of gunpowder. - 81. >s'1s!~'..
Gravelotte Recalled. !
~ Tn to this time the records show that
AZ 6ravelotte or St.. Privat, as the
French call it, the largest armies we're
engaged. There the Germans had 2ll,'
900 men and the French 100000. a
total Of a51 900 The Losses 81 Of the 1at tos
sxnef were 2U,UUO ana Oh ene ~
losses hs,eeo' at hiao s viii be about 80, 900
and those of the Russians lo,ooo. me
Battle of Gravelotte was precapitabea
Nv an effort of the French to escape
being shut up in Metz. e-,,.a
81 In the siege Of Metz. when to1n os
D still greater number Of men lei was IN
Tolved. Prince Frederick Charles be,
.sieeed with 100000 Germans and ad
Marshal Bazaine surrendered aso, oo o0
Frenchmen, a grand total OF 5so,Voo
men. But this was a siege, not q oateIe.
Another battle famous t tSr+ Ea ne I nHn,
Sig, In 1873, where the, allies are SAID e.;
10 have had 100000 troops and the
French 100000. This total was ex-
aceeded slightly at Waterloo, where, ae,
cording to the best authority, .tne soSal
engaged was 3S9 2os-thed fre enc i a1;es
Ht Ansterlitz the two armies num-
hered only $4,000. At Smolensk
there were 175,Oo0 French and 100000
Russians.
81. waterloo and Gettysburg.
u It is recognized generally by histo:
Rams that the two greatest battles OF
modern times, SO far as their eHect
upon civilization was concerned, were
Waterloo and Gettysburg. AZ .4ie me t iqn
WAS s smaller Her by $4,000 than the aggre
At Gettysburg the. federals nun "
ssbered 93,5O0 and the Confederates Ioi
sO0o-a total Of only l63,5oO, or mn 1ei
siess than half the number now engaged
5@on on the plains of Manchuria. In the
three DAYS fight at Gettysburg the tea
sra] losses in killed, wounded, prisoner!
and missing. were $4,000, or nearly q
per cent, and the Confederate losses
2O,45O, or 80 per cent. 4;os -
loss were to be applied to the Japanes
and Russian armies! Military mel
here saw they do not look for such
hioh ratio Of loss, because in Manchu
sS ria the battle is more an artillery due
and less an open-front engagement VIII
The magnitude Of the, operation
now being Conducted BY the Japanes
in Manchuria and at Port Arthur, 8
far from bases, amazes military SUI
dents everywhereo;o Ihe 1a2aanese EN- nu q
The mainland in the Liao-tung PENN
sula, all CT ried thither by: transport
General William Teeumseh Sherma
ST began his march to the sea with 1e
than 100000. Only 10000 were e.
gagged on both sides in the battle
.s - Napoleon's Plans.
= When Napoleon returneu tlolii u
An the spring of. 1915 ne planned :.
put 100000 men in the field. He sa
he would need that many to recov
Rnd defend his empire. Yet critic
Historians show that by June ne n
only $4,000 troops in active servl'
10000 in the decisive battle Of, /
i, career, at Waterloo, a fortnight late1
American military officers say t
gISccess of the Japanese supports tn
A. THEORY of war which places high val
,pon the moral power; Of the otfensl'
nsaosssesIeed by troops which make t
1900 affacks | and do not simply await assau
us veil as the, practical and tacti!
advantage ord the aggressor IN ,bel
able to choose9 the hour of attack a
the place whesre the defending line,
been favori1ae method with bold q
slsilful generals. Frederick the CIR
and Napesaeon preferred it, Wellingt
Employer it in his Peninsular W
+ Grant r4sed it in Virginia and the Pr
s slams both in 1866 and 1S70-71.
It also is pointed out here that
most, every success the Japanese hi
won has been either by superior ar
1erYt effectiveness or by turning
enemy 3 TANKS. 10y
American officers who are watch
the, great operations in the far e
q carefully will be much surprised if 6
erssl Kuroki does not turn Kuropatki
left flank, cut his communications "
Mukden and seal the fate Of the F
sitan army by shutting Kuropatkin
+ Lilao-yang, as Bazaine was shut in. NJ
b,y superior force of Germans.
HIoosIER LAsHED BY MASKED M
Nashville. Ind, Sept. SANDY Nc
ri man OF family, was dragged from
home last night near Elkinsville
Whipped numerically. His assail
numbered thirty, all masked. Moore
accused Of abusing his wife and dist
ing a religious meeting.