Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 51066-h.htm or 51066-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51066/51066-h/51066-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/51066/51066-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See https://archive.org/details/japanrussiawaril00tyle Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: A SILENCED GUN IN PORT ARTHUR.] THE JAPAN-RUSSIA WAR An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East The Greatest Conflict of Modern Times by SYDNEY TYLER War Correspondent and Author of "The Spanish War," "The War in South Africa," Etc., Etc. Illustrated by Photographs and Drawings Made by Eye-Witnesses P. W. Ziegler Co. Philadelphia Copyright, 1905, by Sydney Tyler ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTRODUCTION. The Japan-Russia War goes into history as the greatest military struggle the world has known. Its story, therefore, rivals in interest those of the great wars of the past which have been an unceasing inspiration in every field of art and literature. The political machinations of great and little kings, of famed prime ministers, of peoples and states have attracted attention in more or less limited circles, but the world's wars have appealed to every class and rank. The world's vast army of readers have never wearied of the classic stories of feats of arms by men and armies told of the dawning days of world history; the tales of later map-making struggles of Asia, of Europe, of America, have never grown old or dull. So in the Orient of to-day. The great political battles which have centred about China and Japan for the last half century have interested the few. But to-day the attention of the world is centred on the lands bordering the Pacific, because a war has waged; because the whole human family loves the stories of valorous deeds, of military achievement, of the history-making that is done with the sword.