The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East

Battle of the Japan Sea--Fleet Russia's Last Hope--Tragedy of the North Sea--Reaches Asiatic Waters--On the Eve of the Struggle--Russians in Double Line--Borodino First to Go Do...

Volunteers for Fireships--A Drama of Searchlights--The Devil's Caldron--The Sacrifice of Fire--Heroic Hirose--Undaunted by Death--Covering Themselves with Glory--Casualties Few...

No Rest for Russia--Port Arthur--The Russian Forts--Another Russian Disaster--Second Night Attack--Japanese Daring--Demons of the Storm--Moral Effect--Bottling up Port Arthur--T...

The North Sea Outrage--Seizures of Neutrals--The Case of the "Malacca"--The Baltic Fleet--Departure at Last--Russian Alarms--In the North Sea--Bringing Home the News--Russian Al...

The Opposing Armies in Manchuria--The Russian Advance--Reinforcements for Both Sides--Battle of the Sha-ho--Two Hundred Hours of Carnage--Awful List of Casualties--Threat and Co...

Prelude to the Great Battle--Gripenberg Fails and Quits Army--The Battle Begins--The Struggle on the East Front--The Battle at the Center--Battle Culminates on the West--Village...

Progress of the Siege--Siege of Port Arthur--The Japanese Progress--The Japs Attack Metre Hill--The Russian Fleet between Two Fires--A Jap Hero--Tunnels and Hand-grenades--The J...

Russia Bluffing--Japan's Navy--"Nisshin" and "Kasaga"--New and Efficient--Japan's Dockyards--Opposing Figures--Russian Navy--Belated Help--Japan's Superiority--Russian Harbor--J...

Kuroki Completes his Plans--The Scene of Battle--General Sassulitch's Defences--The Russian Dispositions--The Attacking Army--Clearing the Islands--Guards Half-way Across--Paral...

The Greatest Battle of History--Rout and Disaster for Russia--The Ancient City of Mukden--The Tombs of the Manchus--A Flourishing Mart--Betwixt Winter and Spring--The Line of Ba...

Firing on the Unarmed--Snowstorms and Bitter Frost--Reconnoitring at Vladivostock--At the Mouth of the Golden Horn--Careful Japanese Calculation--Bombardment at Long Range--Russ...

Investment of Port Arthur--Admiral Witoft's Sortie--Tremendous Naval Battle--Harbors of Refuge--International Complications--Insignificant Japanese Losses--The Last Raid from Vl...

Secrecy of Japanese Strategy--The Geographical Position--Kuropatkin's Essential Weakness--Rain Stops Carnage--Oku Rolls up the Russians--Field-Marshal Oyama--Keller's Failure--1...

The First Japanese Disaster--The "Hatsuse" Strikes a Mine--Admiral Togo Undaunted--Rammed in the Fog--Renewed Russian Hopes--The Vladivostock Squadron--A Thrill Through the Civi...

Russian Demoralization--On the Heels of the Enemy--Remarkable Japanese Strategy--The Paper Army--The Thin Black Line of Reinforcements--Position of the Russian Army--Kuropatkin...

With the fall of Port Arthur, the Russo-Japanese War entered upon an entirely new phase. Although the situation of the gigantic armies that faced one another across the Sha-ho R...

Two Irreconcilable Destinies--Progress v. Stagnation--Europe's Danger--Insatiable Russia--A Warm Water Port--Japan's Warlike Progress--The Chino-Japanese War--Russia's "Honor"--...

End of First Year--Changes of a Year--Year of Disaster for Russia--The Cause of the War--Japan Acts Swiftly--The Land Campaign--Battle of Liao-yang--Battle of Sha-ho River--The...

Aftermath of the Victory of the Sea of Japan--The World Hopes that Peace Will Result--The President of the United States Takes the Initial Step--Meantime the Japanese Decline an...

After the Battle of the Sha-ho River the two armies went into winter quarters prepared to face a Manchurian season with thermometer readings of 35 degrees below zero not uncommo...

Page A Silenced Gun at Port Arthur Frontispiece Japanese Infantry Attacking a Chinese Position 21 Map Showing the Area Affected by the Dispute 25 The Japanese at Port Arthur 27...