The Archive · 1904

Seeing Through the Bluff

Tokio, 28th October, The Conservative paper "Nippon," referring to the dispatch by Russia of a second Manchurian army and second Pacific squadron, says that Russia's policy is half bluff and half practice. Her recent military demonstrations seem intended to intimidate the world, including Japan, and to save Russia's face rather than to win a victory. Japan is fully aware of Russia's policy of bluff and is prepared to take suitable steps to offset it.—Our own corres-

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