The San Francisco call., 1904-09-07
IAPAN'S GREAT BATTLE.

tIF full statement of casualties in the battle Liaoyang
yet at hand but from the partial reports mace lo the
alone will exceed the total casualties in any action at
arms since the invention of gunpowder.
The greatest modern battles fought Civil War In
those actions pluck against pluck and grit against grit The
largest number engaged in action was at where
army and the Confederate 1858 total
of 9 The Confederate loss 1884 killed 600 wounded and
1869 missing the Union loss ooS killed 4IIo wounded ana o5
missing making grand total of casualties of 8o3o The next
battle measured by the number OF men IN cGson ana n
casualties Gettysburg the decisive 6atte OF the Wa
Union numbered 9736I and the Confederate total
of 1850 Though the number OF men action was less than at
Fredericksburg casualties much greater The Federal army
lost 1912 killed 1o7 434 missing the Confederate
grand total of 4s54 Of Which the killed
1904 1t and stubbony fought action IN which every
form of oense artillery rifle bayonet charge and cavalry
charge desperate courage displayed by both sides Yet
looking back upon the number killed the field was surprisingly
Since then however great improvement
The army larger range and the fired ammunition and
substitution of efficient but the artillery is OF greater
fire. These things alone account somewhat tor
greater destruction the battles fought in the current in
Eastern Asia.
In the action Laoyang believed that half million of
faced each other The Russians have bored under the
disadvantage having Kuropatn policy of choosing
his ground for stand and gathering his entire force has
brought his entire army under Japanese fire. that there could be
eve the troops aded by long fighting Japanese generals
respect oucassed him. They repeat Napoeonc tactics by hav
reserves fresh ready for duty while the
ded recruit These tactics permit that ncessant assault which
gives the enemy
ea commanders before knowing what has happened that
awful battle Both armies exclude correspondents from
permitted snuff the battle aar off, the comfortable dis
eight evident that got any nearer the
Russian side that reports from that mostly the
suit OF imagination 1t the first modern modern in the
OF the OF the which the begents have
succeeded completely muzzng the correspondents In the
RussoI Iurh Forbes the English correspondent
had the right OF way IN both armies he sat alone with the Gar
IN his field tent and able write wildly observer
touch with Now the what local
color they the we'll
The Japanese officers have been very odierke in their
which believed to be and lack the dramatic e
entirely The Russians the though they
pardonb uphemism when they call change of po-
sion"
From the reports given out by both sides evident that the
total killed will all the casualties of Fredericksburg
ysburg combined number but little short the whole
derae force Gettysburg While foresee the effect
the worlds political and commercial geography with
desire underestimate the effect OF Gettysburg Sedan that
may predict that the battle of Laoyang will the greatest per-
effect the worlds
Marathon Tours.
Some OF the Continental military critics try minimize
Japanese Laoyang because Kuopans
captured But Lees not captured at Gettysburg 1t
treated Virginia but the of Meade
OF the field, and the battle decisive of the
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