Show 01 UP IIII Tul Toronto Mail and ond I lint Hut tho the failure of ot the thu Russian I 1111 assuming It to 10 bo be assured lees does not mean menu the tho failure of ot the tho Russian ram cam campaign Naval Nil n I success stuccoes Rucce on tine tho part hurt of or Russia would probably have brought I time the war wor to 10 a n 1 speedy speed end 1111 It would u I hove have enabled the tho continental empire to 10 menace the JUt very cr existence of ot Japan Japin a 1 situation which would have hlo precipitated prompt pr Intervention The Thu second phase of or time the struggle the tho tedious and amid costly land Inid operations will now net no go they will viii be necessarily II restricted until the opening open In ot of spring II 1111 II g In Russia expects to 10 recover tine tha disasters of or Its I naval engagements Its Immense resources anti and nn Powerful military ration nation make Russia n 1 formidable an nn antagonist even en under the disadvantages that confront It In eaten cistern Asia Chicago Journal He lie would wood ho bo a 1 rash nun man who would ouM predict tine the outcome of ot th thin war Hut tut It Il h ii to tn speculate upon time the retells results of ot Japanese success In view of It what has MA happened thus far What will they ther be Will Russia Mesta bo ho forced out of ot A Ma Ida by the tho pressure of ot Japan on Oil the tho cast and of England l In India on the tine south couth That seems unlikely but It IM is IMprobable II probable that mired march I of ot ag nit n and conquest will bo ho checked for ninny many years tIrl to como come of nf exploiting China Chia as nil she ho has hoped hOlled to 10 do du she Iho will have her work stork cut out for tor her In maintaining her position In HI SI China Chita will be given to the tho Jet JaIl Japanese anese to Germany to France and to the tho Ih United States us as a 1 fold field of ot trade until the time comes when these thep powers will quarrel over possession of It And the thu universal war In the far east of ot which wo we have heard so much of ot late lato becomes on an n actuality Philadelphia North American The metamorphosis of the situation In the far tar east tuna has been dazzling Such Hueh feats f as nil the little brown sailors crowded Into a n day of ot naval unal lighting must have C stirred the Wood blood under any circumstances but bill following immedi immediately a n season of ot sluggish negotiation they have set get el the tho world agape And 1111 yet et the line contrast of or yesterday nil ami to ly IY Is 11 but the contest between ho genius of ot 11 and the genius of Japan Ho So long us tie tortuous and un l hairsplitting splitting di diplomacy diplomacy II was the Iho work In hand Russia I dominated and events moved ponder ponderously I ouch If it they moved nt ot all nil This woe wan wn true Irue until Japanese patience disappeared poured Then come came war And with war the spirit which In a generation inns has transformed n a few tew million semi barbarous Islanders re Into Inlo a II power took command of at the time schedule of oC developments Toronto Toronto World The dramatic Interest of or the tho present war Is II easy to understand On tho tine one on Hide aide Is II Russia lIue lu with Its enormous terri tern territory tory Cory lor second s only to tu that of ot the and with ambitions that have for Cor years ears the tho Imagination of ot the tho world On the other side Is III an Asiatic power that has sprung Into Inlo prominence by I Its sudden adoption of western Ideas henK Its aggressive patriotism and anti Its lis easy victory over Ocr China Chinn Then there was wan nn eager desire for tor a n test of at the terrible engines of ot modern naval warfare Hut beyond all this sensational Interest there Is u II permanent and worldwide In III Interest inn terest In ht the tho Present war More Is 18 at nt stake slake than Korea of or Manchuria There Is tho lino supremacy of eastern Asia Asla ala there thee Is III the thu leadership of ot the yellow peoples i there thero 18 Is the question of sea en power nn nil the thc Pacific facile Ocean All 11 these thelle prizes lie Ile IleIn In III clew lew of at Japanese e ambition though her statesmen natty may ma b he be sincere enough in III declaring that her Iter present alms are more modest loudest London Dally Dully Mall Despite the lesson leuon of or the Iho hoer Doer warthe Japanese did very cry little open order extended formation work In their last maneuvers maneuver but Jut operated In solid mass lance massen s sCtt en Ctt as OK trim and nt as though shaped with a n spirit level leel When Field Marshal Marquis was melts naked nuked If H Japan would not change her hel field Held toe tac tactics tics to suit stilt the Iho conditions of modern lighting fighting he replied d will reveal her tactics In boWl bottle He lie since euro ure that they the will be those necessary to 10 Insure vic tic victory Ie tory This rule was ins not the self device dance d lIce of the unbeaten warrior but the expression c of the only spirit Japan knows for Cor chic sho never considers defeat even as RIll n remote possibility po |