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PREFACE. The

object of this

little

book

is

to give a succinct

account

of the progress of the war between Japan and China up to the No one can be more sensible than the time of its compilation. of a work of this kind. In writing of a war of the defects compiler, still in

as

we

progress, we cannot grasp the true proportion of its events, are liable to be dazzled by brilliant achievements and to

attach to

no

them a greater importance than

to those which,

though

less vital to the accomplishment of the object of the war,

fail

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to attract public

attention through absence of stirring victories.

are the operations in North Manchuria, for the retention of positions like Haiching and Funghwangthough ching will afterwards be found to have been as indispensable

Such,

for instance,

towards a successful termination of the war as the capture of Port Arthur or Wei-hai-wei, we are more fascinated by the brillancy of the Japanese victories at those fortresses than by the stubborn resistance offered unflinchingly to inclement climate and

While the size of this work frees it from the perplexity which would arise in a more complete history from the very multitude of newspaper reports, this same compactness

harassing armies.

the sin of omission as regards those events, the important consequences of which we do not at present suspect.

exposes

it

to

While recognising this fatal want of historical perspective, the compiler was led to produce the present work with the sole object of briefly recounting the principal events of the war, a survey of which is complicated by the operations of the Japanese armies in divers directions.

beyond

The

present work, therefore,

facilitating this survey.

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