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Show THOSE TERRIBLE JAPS. The most marvelous battle of which the world H has any account ui, has been going on around H Mukden, In Manchuria, for the past twelve days. fl It has raged with scarcely an hour's suspension, fl day or night, and probably 160,000 men have been fl killed and wounded. At this writing Mukden has fl fallen, but whether Kuropatkin oan extricate his fl army or whether he will be forced to capitulate fl is not known. fl It begins to look as though Japan was. the fl most terrible of military powers. When a whole fl people seem to become at once indifferent to H death and for days and nights can fight without fl either rest oi sufficient food, it seems clear that fl tho only way to beat such a power Is by annlhi- fl latlon and there are forty millions of them. Sol- fl diors say the most exhaustive work in the world fl is that of soldiers in action. When reaction comps 9 from the toil and excitement of battle, there fol- 9 lows prostration. But there seems to be no reac- 9 tion with the Japanese. They seem to be under a 9 perpetual battle ecstacy. With Russia disposed of, 9 what then? Surely the brown men have become 9 a world's concernment. There has been nothing 9 like them in modern times, never anything in 9 anoient times, unless old Rome in her first sav- 9 agery was like them. fl Surely they are a terrible race and their dom- 9 inance Is an omen of dread to the world. fl |