The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-05-26

PROGRESS, OF THE WAR.

7 ON the face of the reports from
I me seat of war during the week
' JUST closed the japanese have suf-
I leled the most disastrous seven
( uaS9 nHrlod since the conflict be-
{ sdn' There Is ever some DISPOSE
ooI among volatile observers to
7 u That h turn of the tide
: Mhlch the Russians from the start
I SO confidently predicted, has set in
7 IN" great Japanese naval disaster
I Il ioSuis d great battleship and also
{ d CIutSef on the same day will
]. nIsn DC oVerGstimated in its seri-
7 BUSINESS. Yet the claim that it can
7 PoSSlp!y disturb the balance of ma
7 Val W Is hardly warranted
y doHay come report, apparently so
! uellllltc and detailed as to warrant
Z assurance ~ OF the loss OF one of
me Iiicst vessels of the Vladivo-
: sok squadron OF the Russians O.
7 Ihs PACK to the P~ctropavlovsk hor-
y ror, tnlS makes a b%attleshiD and a
cruiser lost by the Russians, and a
= pattleshlp and cruiser by the Jams,
u l. practically an even exchange.
7 3tt before any of these four YES
= sclS were lost, the japanese con
? ttol OF the sea was established and
= unqucstioncd. The forces comna
I 10" Just about as they did before
Z TTa1Ga SERIES OF accidents began. The
= the ascendant as on the dav bnrorn
? the fetrOpaVlovSk went down.
Y Analysis Of the campaign on land
: also' uoes not sustain the claim
T NAT the japanese have seriously
7 iost ground. Rather, it seems to
: bear out the theory that they are
? paying for a sure thing, and have
= 1t III sight.
7 1T Is now accepted by military en-
? pefts mat the Japanese have an
. aLIiIy Dehlnd Mukden; probably of
I aDout "''tg0' They also have two or
= tnrer 10 the south OF Mukden. The
= OBJECT is to draw these various
:. iorceS about kuroDatkin's force and
7 ny d united II Simultaneous attack
7 crush or capture him. Sedan, where
= ION Mo!tke captured almost l0O,-
7 ~ rFcncn soldiers by surrounding
? thcn While they did not realize
2 thelr danger, is the comparison con
= SANITY made with the present
2 Strategic plan of the Japanese. The
. Sklll with which the army now
7 klo"h TO be northeast of Mukden
2 was handled to get it there with
: out me enemy or the outside world
. suSPcCtlhB its movements, is re-
7 garded as marvellous.
: Naturally. the Japanese are not
= gong 10 fight a decisive engage
= ment till they are ready to strike
Z with all their forces at once. The
= ulspatches have told of a japanese
2 force advancing toward Lao Yang,
: from the south, cncountcring a SUI
= perior Russian force and retiring
? very quickly. This was part of the
: japanese plan; the other Japanese
: armies We're not ready; they had
Y not reached the positions from
: which they could unite in the CRANE
? maj crushing movement; and so
2 thGy retired. and may continue re-
? llrlnS, TIL they get their different
= forces into the right positions,
. k~uropatkin IS in the position of a
z baserunner caught between the
y bases.
7 A decisive battle in Manchuria
= does not seem to close as it did Il
? Few days ago; but its outcome
= seems more certainly a Japanese
7 victory h Ia ever before. The very
= rapidly and success of the Jap
= ancse retirm@nt on Feng Wang
2 Cheng proves how carefully they
= are playing the game.