The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-02-15
THE BALTIC FLEET AND THE WAR.

The honors OF the far have evidently gone Japan How
that will affect the future tell Up present strug
For the Russian ships to have turned tail and from Jap
torpedo boats into Port Arthur argue any great
naval skill the the
demoraze the Russian feet and gives Japanese confidence
which will inspire them greater deeds The Russians yet
They did destroy the Turkish fleet Navano but they had the
last century In 1858 they destroyed Turkish ships in the
the Cmean war the Baltic fleet fled into the aro Of Sensational and
several large ships sunk the passage keep British
French ships When naval demonstration
Baltic under the guns of the Notifications and
would The no means great
1t safely be predicted that the Japanese will keep
bottled up Arthur and that if it comes out thew will de-
stroy it. They have ample time clear the Chinese
Russian ships before the Baltic fleet They
themselves to that Aota in detail The Baltic feet
distance to come and there very likely be casualties the
No Russian ship has equal the Oregon
h celebrated voyage round South America Another consideration
is how is the Baltic fleet to obtain coal Of GOLFERS will
the fleet but they will have port
allow them TO NIL up IN ITS waters And Russia has naval stations
until Port Arthur reached Besides golfers
much slower than batteps and they would thus delay the
The Baltic fleet episode unprepared in spite OF
all the reported preparations further shows general
snip Is wanting II crushing naval blow to be given to Japan
there should have been combination of these fleets long ago.
trying get the Black Sea fleet There European
powers who would never allow without making fight
the breaking up of the Treaty of Berlin
Upon land the Russians may do better probma-
teal The Japanese has shown himself good soldier not only in the
Chinese but also in the allied expedition to Picking More
the Japanese is educated and the bulk of the Russian army
dense ignorant and modern warfare the soldier ought to be edu
Gated The Russian fights Vodk Every soldier carries in his
This make him reckless for time but after time he
will lose his and The Jap into fight with full
ach of rice and mayhap little ak which taken small quantities
the Japanese take Intoxicating We ourselves how
utterly demOrazd the Spanish became the battle of San
ago when their officers filled them up with wine spirits with the
hope of making them fight better Fighting done by
those nations who make in warfare
All these things tend give advantage the Japanese To
them be added the patriotism of the little brown and their
splendid discipline The Russians have patriotism and they have
fanacsms which has been valuable attribute of troops from the
of Maomet that of the Mahdi and the Mad Mula
There the question whether these nations will fight the
quarrel whether the European will
into the struggle That would make the struggle world and
would change the Europe well the of Asia 1t might
break the Colonial Empire of England for might
it for fully hundred 1t might Rssia Influence
the of the Indian Ocean might roll her back within the
confines of her northern provinces The possibilities
and no yet predict the results