Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 178W. Blackwood & Sons, 1905 - Scotland |
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Page 9
... Japanese are making things hot for Russia ! " " The Japanese ? " he rejoined , staring at 1905. ] 9 A Strange Conversion .
... Japanese are making things hot for Russia ! " " The Japanese ? " he rejoined , staring at 1905. ] 9 A Strange Conversion .
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... Japanese was such exactly as I had when a school- boy : he thought of them as little yellow men clad in long silken robes , with a couple of swords stuck in their girdles , and their heads shorn in strange fashion ; and I had to tell ...
... Japanese was such exactly as I had when a school- boy : he thought of them as little yellow men clad in long silken robes , with a couple of swords stuck in their girdles , and their heads shorn in strange fashion ; and I had to tell ...
Page 11
... Japan , -just as other nations have been crushed before . It's the old story ; there is no such thing as justice in ... Japanese vic- tories - if they should come . The Yalu was crossed at last - a fight on land - with Brontoski's eager ...
... Japan , -just as other nations have been crushed before . It's the old story ; there is no such thing as justice in ... Japanese vic- tories - if they should come . The Yalu was crossed at last - a fight on land - with Brontoski's eager ...
Page 12
... Japanese , by exaggerating , forcing himself day he talked of them , -at as it were not to believe in times with despondency , when Japan's triumph , which he de- their advance did not keep sired so ardently . To what pace with his ...
... Japanese , by exaggerating , forcing himself day he talked of them , -at as it were not to believe in times with despondency , when Japan's triumph , which he de- their advance did not keep sired so ardently . To what pace with his ...
Page 117
... JAPANESE BY CHASSEUR . VII . THE OVERTHROW OF THE ARMADA . In the It is now tolerably certain the fighting fleet. Α ... Japanese waters . There could only be two reasons for this course : either Rojdestvensky imagined that he had eluded a ...
... JAPANESE BY CHASSEUR . VII . THE OVERTHROW OF THE ARMADA . In the It is now tolerably certain the fighting fleet. Α ... Japanese waters . There could only be two reasons for this course : either Rojdestvensky imagined that he had eluded a ...
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