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. 1922 Excerpt: ...Gulf of Petchili. The skerries of the Korean coast, with their many shelters for submarines, destroyers and aircraft, dominate the longitudinal routes leading from Shanghai to the Gulf of Petchili. Also, the coastal waters of China, especially in the region of Shanghai and of the Gulf of Petchili, are so deep that ...
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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. 1922 Excerpt: ...Gulf of Petchili. The skerries of the Korean coast, with their many shelters for submarines, destroyers and aircraft, dominate the longitudinal routes leading from Shanghai to the Gulf of Petchili. Also, the coastal waters of China, especially in the region of Shanghai and of the Gulf of Petchili, are so deep that minefields can easily be laid. These minefields may render access to Shanghai and Tientzin extremely dangerous and difficult, especially as these minefields can be constantly and easily renewed by Japanese mine-layers based upon the skerries of the Korean coast. The chief strategical feature of the Yellow Sea, however, is that no fleet other than the Japanese can have even a temporary base in those waters. All the ports, bays and shelters of any strategical importance whatsoever are at present on Japanese territory. The enemy fleet that would attempt to seize or occupy these ports or bays for its own purposes would inevitably have to reckon not only with the Japanese Fleet, but with the Japanese Army guarding Japanese territory. The ports remaining in the hands of China have practically no rear. As long as the communications between Japan and Korea in the Japanese Sea are not interrupted, nothing can prevent the Japanese Army--as long as Russia and China remain in their present state of weakness--from appearing at any given point of the Chinese coast. At whatever point of the Chinese coast the enemy fleet might anchor it will have to anticipate a bombardment from the batteries of the Japanese Army approaching from the mainland. British Wei-hai-wei would not be spared that fate. Is it not for this reason that Great Britain declared at the Washington Conference that she was going to restore that part to China? If the Yellow Sea cannot be described a...
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