This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...of the Powers was to determine the Japanese to make their country a first-class naval and military Power, capable of holding her own against any of the Powers, whose jealousy might stand in the way of her legitimate advancement and progress in the future. Japanese statesmen had long foreseen that a war with Russia must ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...of the Powers was to determine the Japanese to make their country a first-class naval and military Power, capable of holding her own against any of the Powers, whose jealousy might stand in the way of her legitimate advancement and progress in the future. Japanese statesmen had long foreseen that a war with Russia must come: they now saw that the hour had come to prepare for that struggle. Togo's work during the next few years was in preparation for that struggle, and we can now see that during the whole period between the war with China and the war with Russia, he must have the soul of the preparations. And, just because he was the soul, his work lay beneath the surface. In the years that elapsed between the conclusion of the war with China and the commencement of the Boxer Trouble, the Admiral was for the most part on shore, engaged in Admiralty work, re-organizing the Naval Academy (of which he was for a short time the President) for the higher training of the best spirits of the Navy, and bearing his part in the great developments of the later nineties. How great the development was may be seen from the Statistics of the Navy. At the commencement of the war with China the Japanese Fleet numbered 28 warships and 24 torpedo-boats, with a grand total tonnage of 59, 106 tons. At the end of the war, what with captures and purchases, the tonnage had increased to 91,161 tons, but the Fleets as then organized contained no single unit of really first-class importance. When the war with Russia broke out she had 7 battle-ships, all first-class, except the Chinyen, with a united tonnage which by itself exceeded the gross tonnage of the whole fleet at the end of the war with China, 6 armoured cruisers with a tonnage of over 9000 tons each, 18 protected cruisers, 10 ...
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