The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-07-06
|lpAN's ART OF WAR.
= Was Developed For
|' .ss Present Conflict.
ATTEST DETAILS WORKED OUT

|0Fe Westerly Execution Revealed
ana - -, Of Her Army and Navy.
IN INC pnraGements often Re-
ProO"' Var readiness For War.
., from 90" reads a typical
-,,tad dispatch, admiral Togo re-
rin'e1 oto Where, everybody is curl
prs >, know, is "OO| Russia is puz-
Us - ,ort if So short is the time be-
ed aOo appearances of ships of Port
. tsn that it is plain some oase not
1'Iu aonpse territory has been estaD-
I 'a "a rrom the first. Moji is the obvi-
/. base, says the New YORK fost
ps O,'Y correspondent. AS you sail in
eCi"' ,trait YOU see miles of huge con-
Ins ,,os Of coal, uncovered. Long be-
D' p tho break in 1.-The negotiations
pc had been accommodating there
Y,'' Through there are coal mines a
+la way inland. a quarter OF a NIL
w +ons Of Welsh coal were imported
h operations that would require tast
Ming MojL however, Is not where
'8- -1nodrons in the Yellow sea are
.unn and provisioning. If one reads
/ disnatches Of the admirals with at
49,, he will observe that the 'un-
/ aa+ionpd place" the rendezvous"
&" 900" is for torpedo boats only
ror+aan hours steam1ng distance
Inn the mouth Of the harbor which
T. been so long subject to attack.
np could give a good guess as to
There 100" is q saw the cable ship
Bring wires), but it does not seem fair
4 Iook over a shoulder and give away
L. mans hand. All that can be said
A that 900" is off Korea and is an is
nd with an English name. It's selec-
In and the secrecy of its maintenance
h mart of the strategy Of the naval
kmpaign. The more one learns of that
rategy the higher one regards the
brebandedness, the planning power
\ hi mastery of execution possessed by
Ais suddenly awakened people.
When Japan was despoiled of her
ktts of conquest in the China war
three European nations she saw,
tst that she needed a European ally
Offset color prejudice and, second,
Lat she needed to measure her capaci-
es against the most Immediately ag-
kesSve of the white nations. One
sOning the world was astonished to
bar of the treaty with England.
Japan went forward then with re-
wed energy and decision. While we
America, up to the very charge of
e torpedo boats at Port Arthur, were
ore than hopeful that there would be
war, Japan was ready and eager.
br at least three years she had been
aiming, building. maneuvering. study
s, testing herself for conflict and
ussia was more ignorant Of it than
e rest Of the world.
Port Arthur Hardin, Vladivostok,
ese made the strategic triangle. All
tention, all ingenuity, was brought
bear on how to assail Port Arthur,
~ to deal with the fleets there and
VladiVostok. how to assist the army
cross the Yalu. The minutest de-
lis were worked out and then prac-
ped. Ships were grouped as they
Puld be for action, and their COM
nders learned the peculiarities of
SSels they would operate with. The
pbable fights were fought over and
eT Every man knew by heart the
lrt he would have to take. The dis
pine was strict. Men were praised
blamed according as they played
~ mimic game If, as once happened,
Squadron did not successfully inter
a squadron representing the
envy at a prearranged spot, the COM
Rhdlng officer was called to explain
failure. Always after a series Of
buttons there would be a general
lSuIta1on and discussions among
commanders to learn wherein the
ElcS might be improved.
pmcers gave themselves wholly to
Ff duties. No books Of fiction, no
psualed papers, were permitted in
~ libraries, only technical treatises
professional works. ION the Rus
ShlpS at Port Arthur there were
spong tables) The proficiency be-
le great. One day, for instance, the
once In Tokyo, by wireless teleg-
NY started a ship out of one har-
GUIDED her thirty miles out to sea
brought her back to a different
WI 1h1s was done by giving COM
uuS Ior steering. The commands
received, blindly obeyed and the
periecty navtgated, as though the
''i STAR were in person on her
81 instead of nearly 200 miles in
around a table in the second
u brick building.
'OOaoly no cruisers Of the same di-
.9lonS have been built as fast as
~ oulIt some recent ones. Ameri-
lave taken nearly four years al
" 10 build the cruiser Denver. The
1VSe are able to turn ont one of
sr a'ue class In the government yards
= years and a month. Moreover,
nave TO get most of the materials
p abroad.
~ now perfectly ready she was