17th October.
THE facts of the capture of hundreds of prisoners by the Japanese in the great battle which is still raging, and of the remarkable disparity in the casualties on the Japanese and Russian sides, is a striking comment tary on the following passage in Carl Joubert's "The Coming Revolution in Russia," in the September issue of the "Nineteenth Century and After":—The revolutionary party has its hand upon the army, and therein lies the essence of success. There are soldiers in Manchuria at this moment who are pledged to make no Japanese widows. astonishing how badly the Russian naval gunner lays his gun, I have lately seen two letters, written by soldiers at the front, which go far to account for the total lack of success of the Russian arms. One speaks of men voluntarily surrendering to the Japanese, so that they may not be called upon to fight for the Czar. The other tells a tale of sudden retreat on the part of a company of Russian soldiers at the moment when victory was in their grasp, and of the officer in command, unable to stop the stampede of his men, blowing out his brains."
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