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Show THE EASTERN WAR. While the poltical campaign was raging, not many could stop to long contemplate the awful war raging in the far east. But we suspect that when its true history shall be finally written it will present such a record of deaths as has not been seon since the invention of gunpowder. In tho ancient days, when fighting was hand-to-hand, and when little mercy was shown to the wounded or vanquished, the terminations of battles bat-tles were generally massacres, but in modern wars the fatalities have been growing loss and less, the H farther apart the weapons permitted armies ol clash. But in this war, the old rul9 seems toH nave been returned to. We read of hand-to-hand H combats, bayonet charges, and of intrenchments B being taken and re-taken, while all 'the timeH more cannons than were ever heard of before inH any war have rained their death upon tho ad-H vanciug and retreating infantry of both armies. H The enthusiastic patriotism and perfect drill H of the Japanese have been breaking against thaH stolid impassibility of the Russians; the one hasB been dashed into bloody spray, the other hasH been ground to pieces by, the friction of the never H ceasing surges. H But it looks as though the hold of the Rus H sians is becoming more and more unstable every H day. Possibly before this reaches the eyes of the public, Port Arthur will have fallen, and then we suspect all efforts of the Japanese will be H concentrated to drive, if possible, the Russians H from Manchuria. H If this Is: accomplished, we do not see how H Russia can ever hope to recover the lost ground, H much less to ever approach in hostile form the H coasts of Japan. The war has raged for a year H now. The chief purpose of Russia to occupy Manchuria and from there wage war upon Japan H has been defeated, and with that Hussia's Asiatic B fleet has practically been destroyed. We cannot see on what she hopes to revive her prestige or her material losses. H |