The Japanese journals regurd the incident as an unfortunate but petty affair, for which any country at war must be prepared: Land forces are powerless at sea, and these men were aware of the fact. Their last-act may be read as.a message to their country that so long as Japan has such warriors she has nothing to fear. The papers are, however, perplexed by the conduct of Commander Mizoguchi and Paymaster lida, who seem to have proceeded at' once to the Russian ship and to have remained there. [t is supposed that they went with the object of saving life and that the Russians immediately made' prisoners of them, but among the comments evoked by their action it is easy to detect a note of dissatisfaction that they too did not choose death. Such a regret will give food for thought to philosophic observers. It illustrates vividly the difference between Occidental and Japanese views of death. Commander Mizopuchi isa younger brother of Count Mizoguchi, ex-Daimio of Niigata province. For the Russians this has been one— their fitst—stroke of good luck. They bit have been very close to Japanese men-of-war during the night of the 25th—26th. Probably nothing but the heavy fog'averted an encounter, and the fog was essentially an accident.
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