7th March.
Finpine that bard blows are Left who believe in the efficacy of unavailing, there are.still. Russians correct. They even delayed the hoi of their in order that the feckings of gallant foes should not be out a sign of delicate altruism y of a place. beside that of Admiral Evans at the battle off Santiago: "Don't cheer, boys;|land the poor devils are dying."
Nor did their kindness confine itself to what one might call the hard words. One of these mistaken 5 pathy of chivalry. There was men bears honoured. name of practical aid of the best kind for the Tolstoi, and for that reason his thousands of Russian wounded, while absurb diatribe against the Anglo-at this moment the prisoners in Japanese alliance is sure to be Japan, now numbered by tens of ly read. allying ourselves thousands, are being as well cared with the Japanese we have in this for as military prisoners have ever gentleman's eyes committed the been, unpardonable sin; our.d redation We.need not dwell upon the mani-must follow as a matter of course which Japan it is impossible to touch pitch and over her opponent in th remain undefiled; the companion-matter of education, science, art, and ship of savages breeds savagery, and general progress. These are too well-known to need further reference, and It is well-known that the sons of vide all the proof required that Ethers' powers of mind, and there is men rarely succeed to their if there are savages en; in this war they do not hail from Dai no evidence in the junior Tolstoi's Ni paper to warrant any assumption The word "savages" therefore is that he isan exception to the rule. a ridiculous and impertinent insult In fact everything points the other nen coe 8 M. Tolstoi has used it. way, for the young, gentleman in might point to the recent action question must have lived strangely of the Huamian Government ju ruth-unmoved by recent revelations if he lessly shooting down its own un-can still bring himself to pen the armed people, in haling thousands word "say " in.connection with to prison, in ling defenceless the Japanese. For what has been the universal verdict of all observers sompe- Foti and Batoum,—and in acting as one might ex-capable of giving an opinion upon pee a rigs todo, But ae all the relative merits of the two contending nations inthe present war?
it not overwhelmingly in favour of Japan? Whose hospitals have stood the best and whose broken down? Let our highest military surgeon answer, and he knows nothing more admirable, in fact nothing' so good, as that which our allies have devised.. In all previous wars the death rate from disease in war has been terrible; on the Russian side it has remained so, and even been made more dreadful, ly owing to difficulties of transrt, but largely from lation of and "absorption" of medical fands by others than those for whom they were intended. On the Japan-cee side the death rate in the Army from disease has been slightly "Again, it has been repeated!
than Sat in cal life. acknowledged by Russian officers and men thet their enemies have fought a good fight in the fairest way, have in short, " pla} the as it should be played, and it was somewhat awkward for M. Tolstoi that, my eeigee i.words were being lished, the Japanese were pais the world a Thoof of their chivalry at the taking of Port Nothing there could have exceeded the propriety of their action, ther thoughtfulness for their foes, or their regard for everything we hold to be of a piece with Russian policy. Her watchword with the downtrodden is" thorough." Her inflictions are "exemplary" in the sense that her ven; ce ceases only when she has no farther victim left to wreak it upon. Witoess the Central Asian states, witness Geok Tope, Khiva, Merv, and the rest. Witness Blagoveatchensk. There the unoffending Chinaman was massacred by the thousand. He of course is one of the "Yellow Savages," who must be lit that the assertion of his right to his own cannot be tolerated. But even this Chinese "savage" has acted with scrupulous honesty if with little vigour under the heaped-up ingulfs of the last twelve months. " We shall pull his pig-tail until he kicks," eaid an onto spoken Russian diplomat, "and then we shall take Peking." That was shortly before the war broke out, and while the Russians still thought there was some power in their forces.
There. is nothing like war to bring out the expression of real feelings. For more & decade Russia has tried every means, plausible, seduce tive, and. blustering, to gain such an over the Chinese Government that Peking should be guided entirely from St. Petersburg, that China should be nothing more Supian Bape, Thee wae never pire. was never a word of " wages" in the honied. accents of Count Cassini Hung-chang was the beau edéal ofa patriot, the Empress Dowager the most enlightened of women. Now, in common with the Japanese they are "yellow sav ly Eng ud is dil and degraded for being on friendly terms with them. Such gre the changes brought about by war.
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