The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-27

PROGRESS OF THE WAR.

z On the face of the reports from I
: he seat of war during the week 1
: just closed the Japanese have suf-
: feied the most disastrous seven (
= days period since the conflict be- I
7 gan. There is even some DISPOSE I
ton among volatile observers to I
assume that the turn of the tide, I
: which the Russians from the start I
: so.Goniidcntly predicted. has set in. I
: inc great Japanese naval disaster I
I IN iosiiis a great battlesh!p'an also I
: hardly be oNerestimated in its seri- :
7 BUSINESS. Yet the claim hat it can I
I POSSIBLY disturb the balance of ma I
: Val power is hardly warranted. (
: Today come report, apparently so I
! definite and detailed as to warrant
acceptance. of the loss of one of I
: the finest vessels of the Vladivo- :
sok squadron of the Russians. Co I
: ing back to the Petropavlovsk hor- I
ror. this makes u battleship and a I
: cruiser lost by the Russians, and a (
Datt!eshlp n cruiser by the Japs. (
1t is practically an ever exchange. I
: Yet before any of these four YES I
troll of the sea a established n I
unquestioned. The forces compare (
: now just about as they did before I
7 me series OF accidents began. The
Japanese would seem as safely in 4
the ascendant as on the day before I
7 the Petropavlovsk went down.. I
7 Analysts OF the campaign on land.
: also, does not sustain the claim
: lost ground. Rather, 1t seems to I
7 bear out the theory that they are
= playing for a sure thing, and have I
+ 1t III sight.
+ 1t is now accepted by military ex-
I perts that the Japanese have an !
: army behind Mukden; probably of I
: about 81. coo. They also have two or I
! three to the south of Mukden. The I
: object is 10 draw these various I
: forces about kuropatkin's force and I
7 by a united and simultaneous attack
= crush or capture him. Sedan, where <
Won Moltke captured almost loO,- I
: go French soldiers by surrounding I
7 them while they did not realize I
7 their danger. is the comparison ON I
: stantly. made with the present I
7 strategic plan of the Japanese. The !
skill with which the army now I
: known to be northeast OF Mukden (
: was handled to get 1t there with I
: out the enemy or the outside world (
? suspectinS its movements, is re- I
: garded as marvellous.
? Naturally, the Japanese are not (
7 going to fight a decisive engage I
: ment till they are ready to strike I
with all their forces at once. The I
: dispatches have told of a Japanese I
7 force advancing toward Liza Yang, I
? from the south, encountering a su- I
perior Russian force and retiring I
very quickly. This was part of the
: Japanese plan: the other Japanese (
: armies We're not ready. they had
+ not reached the positions from (
: which they could unite in the grand (
: final crushing movements; and SO I
: they retired. and may continue re- I
firing, III they get their different
? forces into the right positions. I
= kuropatkin is in the position of a (
b~ascrunner caught between the (
+ bases. I
a decisive battle in Manchuria
+ does not seem TO close as 1t did a !
few days ago; but its outcome I
: seems more certainly a japanese (
7 victory than ever before. The very 4
? rapldity and success of the Jap I
? ancse rctirment on Feng Wang 4
Cheng proves how carefully they I
: are playing the game.