Lanterna Rally

Author: Great Britain War Office

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-11

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 9780265155134

Excerpt from The Russo-Japanese War, Vol. 1 Primorsk or Maritime Province, was ceded to the Tsar. Nearly three centuries earlier, the Cossack Yermak, acting under Imperial auspices, had led his motley band of freebooters eastward across the Urals to subjugate Siberia, and his successors in expansive effort now found themselves established on the far distant shores of the Sea of Japan. The advance to the dreary confines of the Asiatic continent, though at times spasmodic, had been rapid, conquest had led to conquest, and the treaty signed at Peking marked a stage, but not the last, in the absorption of vast regions into the Russian Empire. Checked again and again in her efforts to reach the Mediterranean, Russia had followed the line of least resistance, and though it led her far afield, she now possessed a scientific frontier on the sea. The Peking treaty was a veritable triumph of Muscovite diplomacy, extracted as it was from the Chinese at a time when, smarting from the lesson lately taught them by the Allies, they were in no humour to resist demands. But though Russia's eastward boundary was now washed by the same sea that half surrounds the Empire of Japan, her aspirations in those distant regions were unsatisfied. Along the coast line of her new possessions no ice-free port exists, and Vladivostok at its southern extremity, whither the Russian naval headquarters were moved from Nikolaievsk, lying ten degrees to the north, is closed by ice for three months of the year. From that port, too, admission to the Pacific mainly depended on the goodwill of Japan, for the two principal avenues which open on that ocean were practically in her handsi On the north-east, between Yezo (hokkaido) and the main island of Hondo, is the narrow Tsugaru channel, while on the south are the straits between the southern shore of Korea and the Japanese island of Kiushu or Nine Provinces. The northern route is under Japanese control. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.