Arizona republican., 1904-02-17
JAPAN's CAMPAIGN OF 1904.

In its campaigns in Korea and Man churia, Japan will be fighting on it's cid battledelds. Less than ten years ago a victorious Japanese army fought it's way northws-d up the Korean pc ninsula and then turned southward to the capture of Port Arthur.
 In the spring of 1894 China on the invitation of Korea. sent soldiers there to suppress the insurrection. Japan Cbiected and on July 9 hostilities be- gan by the torpedoing of transport carrying HOO Chinese soldiers off the Korean coast Several minor naval enga gements followed and on August war was formally declared. Mean while both powers were transporting troo?s to Korea. Japan landed 30,0OO men at Chemulpo, and 100 900 at Fusan, at the extreme southeastern point of the peninsula. China massed a force on the northern boundary of Korea, at the. mouth of Yalu river. This army then marched 100 miles south to the Ping Yang. In September 4,OOO Chin- lese were besieged in that town by 4O,- 900 Japanese. The place was carried by assault. the Chinese losing heavily.
 A few days later the Chinese squad
 F Korea was discovered by a Japanese fleet of about equal strength under Ad- miral Ito and was defeated after a desperate fight in the famous battle of !the Yalu. river. The Chinese force con sisted of two small battleshiDs and six arnored cruisers, besides gunboats and torpedo Gpaft Admiral Ito had no battleships but he had five cruisers, CnnpIiCl- n tr selE. The horror of the battle exceeds that of any recent sea fight. The Chin ese ships were soon disabled and set on fire. and surgeons hurried about the decks killing the wounded with prusssc acid to save them from burning alive. So eager were the men to be put out of misery that they stretched out their arms to the hypodermic needles and begged for tine injection. Five of the Chinese ships were lost and about POGO men. were killed The Japanese lost 200 men but no ships
 After the capture of Ping Yang the Japanese pushed slowly northward, conveying their guns with difficulty through the mountains. They reached the YaIu late in October and then fought their way across Manchuria htdHWHile tIle AllkdQC ndQ ldnQe1 3O,- 900 men near Port Arthur, which was defended by a garrison of 10000 Chin ese. A part of the Japanese Korean force turned south and helped in the capture of Port Arthur which fell late in November. The rest of the invading army passed on toward Niuchwang, an important trading city on the road to Pekin. and only about $50 miles from the capital Futher, to weaken | the Chinese defense a third Japanese force was transported to Wei-hai- wei. the naval station across the straits from Port Arthur. This fell in Feb ruary after siege and the destruc- -tion of four war ships in the harbar by Japanese torpedo boats.
 l The next month China asked for peace. By the treaty of Slimoneseki the Pellin government guaranteed the | independence of Korea, ceded lower Manchuria to Japan, and agreed to pay an indemnity of 120 million dollars
 Had this treaty stood the present war might have been averted. On the pre- text than Japanese occupation of Man churia and China, Russia insisted that Japan cede back the province and ac- cept an indemnity. Two years later | the czGr's forces occupied the territory and took possession of Port Arthur