Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-29
THE YELLOW DANGER
THE STORY OF THE WORLDS GREATEST WAR.
BY vi. P. SHIEL.
Copyright, 1899. by R. f. Fenno & co.,

middle of the interminable Japanese line:
and while the rest of the British fleet were
still beyond effective range. sudden rain
fell from the military tops of two cruisers
upon her decks.
The Hirosaki did not answer.
With ripped decks and annihtiated boats.
on she went, straining her engines, every
egress from the stokeholds closed by the
devoted men who toiled like salamanders
in her depths.
Within two minutes from the opening of
fire, shell from the 32-cm. gun of the
Aktsuschima tone of the two ships at the
point where Hardy aimed to break the
enemy's line) had burst through the shield
of the fore-barbette killed or wounded all
Its crew, and disabled the turn-tahle
And now a horror of wonder and con-
sternatfon spread among the crew of the
Hirosaki-at her strange sllence-at her
frenzied adventure
Where was Hardy? Was he stricken
dumb? Was he dead? Was he dancing
mad?
An ashen-faced London barrister In one
of the port classmates of the 6-inch quick
tirers on the main-deck gasped in a dry
throated wh.sper:
HE is deadr'
And Brassey of Kiao-Chau. ashen- faced
also, gasped In answer:
BAH what are you talking about?"
The engines roared the sea whitened, the
Hirosakt walked grandly down arcade of
flame and smoke.
t'Hc a4efu pdSScu through TIE iifSl me DE
the enemy between two cruisers, the Akit-
suschima and the Has.date which she
could have sunk by a mere snari of her
broadsides- Yet she did not speak.
Before her came two more, the Teu-rio,
and the Takao; and the two before and the
two behind concentrated upon her their
fires.
Every one looked to see her sink; GER
tainly, II was only question of moments
of how many moments the fire continued
from such close quarters The outward ap-
pearance OF the ship. by the time she reach
ed the second Japanese line abreast, was
one of mere ruin and havoc.
The enemy were as astounded at her
conduct as her crew. But In few instants
they knew-they thought that they knew
Twenty or twenty-five cables behind the
siderable size. alone-that Is to say, pro-
tected by the whole praeposited mass of her
navy Yet she was ship-of war
As soon as the Hirosah emerged from
the world OF coppery gloom into which she
had passed Ii were. living thing to
come forth. but for her central citadel ana
propeiling mechanism. a dead-she turned
her bows upon this ship.
The ship was the Yoshino though pow
erfuilF armed, she was OF the ships
called gnarmored:s' smoking over a map
in her cabin sat Yen How
Hardy had reached hint One weIl-di-
reeted shell, one happy torpedo and. be-
yond doubt, the yellow host will be leader
less
AND now, at last, the Hirosaki talks: but
she talks In such sorry, effete, and slip
shod manner that whole crowd of Japan
ese captains who are already fastening to
the rescue of that one precious ship, laugh
In their coming towers. Was there ever
such miserable aiming? such false sight?
Not one of the shots takes effect The
Yoshino keeps on her way untouched. The
rash HirosaM has run that appalling block
ade of fame in vain. And to complete her
iguoniny, Immediately upon her first feeble
effort, she turns tail. and goes laundering
In defeated fight 70 the S. e.
She was evidently the flagship of the
British. and the fact that she had reserved
her fire in her passage through the feet
and had then singled out, and fired upon
the Yoshino. proved to the Japanese that
the British knew In which ship Yen How
was borne. and that their one and only
object In fighting now was the destruction
of Yen How.
The one and only object of the Japanese