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Show Tba txA tt t&t Wcr. There are many reasons why lhe Busso-Japa-nese war should end soon. The fall of Port Arthur will enable the Japanese to increase their force at Mukden, while the severity of the weather will prevent Kuropatkin from receiving receiv-ing reinforcements for months to come. Vladivostok Vladivo-stok is as good as taken. Russia cdnnot send troops or supplies' there either by sea or rail. N The Russian squadrons now on their way to the Far East are inferior to the Japanese naval strength. The Russians cannot delay or dddge a naval engagement unless they blow rip their ships W surrender them. It will be difficult for them to obtain coal and provisions and they must seek battle bat-tle or give up without a struggle. They may be able to give the Japs a hard fight, but everything points to defeat for the Russians. The many reverses the Czar's forces have suffered will have a discouraging effect and the equipment of the vessels and the personnel per-sonnel of the fleet are inferior .' ' " Without a navy and with her two ports in the hands of the enemy, it is hard to see how Rrssia can expect to press the war to a successful termination termina-tion Kuropatkin will not be able to make so effective ef-fective a resistance at Mukden as he did at Liao Yang, and if defeated there he must fall back on Harbin. If that is captured Russia" will be completely com-pletely shut off from the Far East. She will be unable un-able to send more troops into Manchuria, as Harbin is the terminus of her trans-Siberian railroad. -Of course Russia will bluff and bluster until the last,1 jbut small attention will be paid to what she says.'-' As matters., now stand, she is virtually defeated. de-feated. ' ' : ' " ; ' |