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DAILY EAST ORE GONIAN, PENDLETON, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1904. PAGE SIX. IHltfllBWHWHHmUBliaMi.i FOUR JAP ARMIES T IS PRIDE 'HmXXXIIXlXIIIIXIII COMING! C0MIN 237,000 MEN IN THE FIELD IN MANCHURIA. ARTHUS RUSSIA'S This Cap Label Wt Is a guarantee of the purity B H and richness of our H Economy I Brand I Evaporated I Cream m We offer I H $5,000 reward H H to anyone able to prove adulteration our product College Place Health Food Wafers, fruit crackers, cream sticks, nut butter and salted peanuts. Despain &, Clark TEETH Per set, $5.00; gold crowns, $4.00; silver filling, 60c; ex tracting, 60c. We are thoroughly equipped with all modern methods and appliances, and guarantee our work to be of the highest stan dard, and our prices the lowest consistent with first-class work. White Bros. Dentists. Association Block. Phone Main 1661. CEREMONY AND 8ENTIMENT both demand a ring, and as the occa sion is an Important one, get a ring of lasting quality. Our assortment of WEDDING RINGS contains every kind known to the JEWELRY -trade. Plain band rings of 14 karat gold in all widths. Solltalro diamond rings at all prices Size and quality govern the price. GLENN WINSLOW Jeweler and Optician Poatoffice Block. Of This Number Approximately One Hundred Sixty Thousand Are Ac tively In the Field, the Remainder Doing Guard and Garrison Duty and Watching Port Arthur Over Sixty. One Thousand Are Cavalry. Ixmdon, July 8. There are four Japanese armies now In the field, three of which are nctlng In co-opora-t Ion in the genernl advance against General Kuropatkln In Manchuria, leaving the fourth engaged In the siege of Port Arthur. The four ar mies arc nccompnnled respectively by Generals Ktirokl, Oku. Nodzu and Nogl, Marquis Oyamn, the commnn-dor-in-chlof, Is expected In Manchu ria the coming week to take supreme commnnd of the four armies. The first army, Gonernl Kurokl's, is that which disembarked at Che mulpo between February S and March 1. consisting of 22,500 men 17,000 conibatnnts and 5500 coolies with 5000 horses and 36 guns and an im mense supply of stores and ammuni tion. This army is that which march ed through Korea to the Ynlti, crossed that river at the battle of Chin Lien Cheng on Mny 1, and having occupied I Feng Wang Cheng, has mndo its headquarters there pending the devel opment of the plan of campaign. Kurokl's army was originally com , posed of the Imperial Guards division, the Second and Twolfth divisions, and possibly has been reinforced by the Sevonth, Eighth nnd Ninth divisions, these three being those kept back for disposition as circumstances might re quire. The second army, under General Oku, Is that which was landed at Pit sewo and elsewhere on the Lino Tung peninsula. After obtaining posses sion of Kaochow und the neck of tho peninsula by the battle of Nanshnn, this army was divided, two divisions and possibly another being Instruct ed, ns the Fourth army, with the task of subjugating Port Arthur, under Genernl Nogi, while General Oku led the rest of his force northward along the line of the Manchurlan railway to co-operate with Kurokl and Nodzu. It was this army which engaged and drove back General Stnkelberg at tho battle of Wafangow. It originally consisted of the First, Third, Fourth and Fifth divisions. Lastly, the Third army Is that of General Nodzu, which was landed at Taku Shan and concentrated in the neighborhood of Sin Yen. It is com posed of the Sixth, Tenth and Elev enth divisions. Including the Seventh, Eighth and Ninth divisions, the location of which Is not certain, this accounts for nil the 13 divisions of the Japanese ar my. Roughly speaking, tho strength of a Japanese division, combatants and non-combatants, is 25,000. If the permanent active army has been put Into the field there would be altogether 203 battalions, 55 squau rons of cavalry, 684 cannon, 61,390 horses, 7500 officers and 1U3.700 men. It has been reported that tho re serve battalions of each division have also been sent into the field. This adds 52 battalions, 17 squadrons, 114 cannon, 9000 horses, 1000 officers and 36.000 men, making tho total of fight ing men 228,300 rank and file and 8500 officers. Allowing for troops guarding communications, garrisons and so.ouo engaged at Port Arthur, this would give 150,000 men, or 160,000 approxl matcly. ns opposed to the Russian army at General Kuropatmn's ins- posal. STRONGHOLD MAY STAND 4 LIKE SEBASTOPOL. Comparison of the Modern Fdrt and the Great Russian Fortress of the Crimean War Tactics of the Cri mean and Japanese War Compared., COMING EVENT8. National Guard Encampment, Washington, Idaho and Oregon, American Lake, Idaho, July 7-21. August 22-27 American Mining Congress, Portland. 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If the soIrc of Port Arthur Is to be slmllnr to thnt of Sevastopol, It will bo woll into next June before tho big Manchurlan fortress falls. The events which led up to the selge of Sevastopol were In many ways llko thoso which led up to the present selge. in tne rormor enso, however, there was much more com plicated cause of war, which original ly was between Russia and Turkey, nnd ended up by being between Rus sia on one side and England and France and the kingdom of Sardinia on the other. Russia's ambitions nnd agression were tho prime cause of the Crimean war, ns they wore of tho present war. but Turkey was not, like Japan, able to fight It out alone, when England nnd France took hold of it, they like Japan, secured commnnd of the sea. The Russian fleet of .that day, con sisting of 15 old-fashioned snlllng Hue of battleships, numerous frigates nnd brigs nnd only one big stenm war vessel, took refuge In the then exist ing strongest Russian fortress, Sovns topol. Tho French nnd English Meets held commnnd of tho lllnck sea, but could not fool secure ns long ns the Russians ships were In being. Tho obvious course, therefore, was to land an nrmy nnd capture tho fleet from shore. Tho troops wore sent out in the month of September, 1854, and It was the general expectation that they would have n walk over and win be fore Christmas. But there was no such Intelligent plan of campaign as that worked out by General Oku and Kurokl. Instead of threatening the remote Russian rear, as Kurokl has done, they concentrated nil their nrmy in the neighborhood of Sevastopol, so that, throughout the selge, they wore continually threatened by nrrales sent to the relief of the fortress, nnd at no time were they able to close thor oughly the Russian line of communication. Instead of falling before Christmas, Sevastopol, at that time, appeared as strong as ever, nnd the besclgers had to sit down for a winter campaign. A terrific hurricane swept over tho Eng lish and French camps In November, blew away practically all tho tents and even stripped tho bedding off pa tients In tho hospitals. Bitterly cold weather at onco set In and tho suffer ing of the troops was Intense. It was not until nearly spring that proper clothing nnd means of shelter woro sent out from Europe. And the food supplies also ran low. Next spring and the following sum mer, the selge still continued but with Increasing vigor. Trenches were dug to within 25 or 30 feet of the fortifica tions and several assaults were made Ineffectually. At last on September S, 1855, the fi nal assault was ordered. Tho French troops occupied tho Mnlakoff, one of tho principal forts, by charge, but the English troops who attacked the Re dan, a similar fort, were repulsed. But with the Malakoff in the hands of tho French the position became untenable and on the night of September 9, tho Russian fleet was burned in the har bor and the hulks scuttled. With the fall of Sevastopol tho Crimean war drew to an end and pence was soon declared. One of the great differences be tween the Scbastopol and Port Arthur situation has been the greater remote ness of Port Arthur from the main Russian forces. Not only has Kurokl Hanked any possible reinforcements, as tho English and French were never able to do in tho Crimean war, but Oku has so effectunlly occupied tho strip of land north of Port Arthur, that It would take a counter siege to get him out. Another point If tho greater superi ority of modorn weapons over thoso of 60 years ago. Tho French and Eng lish had abandoned muskets but were using muzzle-loading rifles. There wore no armored ships of any kind and the artillery was of a compara tively small caliber. Bofore Sevastopol tho French and English each had 30,000 men and later Sardinia sent 20,000 men. Tho Rus sian garrison at the boginning of tho siege consisted of 35,850 effectives, which Is about tho size of tho present garrison of Port Arthur At the timo of the Sovnstopol slego, tho principal of long rango converging flro was practically unknown. Today heavy guns placed In a wldo circle can prac tically annihilate nny glvon object In tho mfddlo on which thoy con all con centrate. In the old days, attack nnd defense was on parallel lines only. in tno first assault on Sevastopol tho French lost u7 men. the English 2271 nnd tho Russians 12,913. Eagles Fri Street Fai oiPJiiv ttl0H D1VE:fv v Ktiorf' Km , bore and uarniv PENDLETON, OREGON July II to July I ON THE STREETS NO ENCLOSURE .. n...Mn. the ' All attractions furnished by the famous Dixie Carnival Co, featuring uana hit"" greatest high hlver, diving twice dally from his lofty tower 100 feet high, Into a tank eon three feet of water. TWICE DAILY AND FREE.' 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