Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 110, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1904 — PREDICT LONG STRUGGLE. [ARTICLE]

PREDICT LONG STRUGGLE.

London Papers Think the War Has Just Begun. What is termed the Japanese inpenetrable silence reduces English comment on the events at the seat of war to a minimum. As dispatches to the Associated Press from St. Petersburg have continuously polluted out, every development now lies with, the Japanese, in whose hands is the initiative. The fanatical disregard for death displayed on both sides and the ability to keep nil

army In being, either from offensive or defensive point of view and under conditions considered to be prohibitive, has done moire to convince the English press of the desperate character of the struggle bring waged iu the far East than ull the dispatches that have emanated from 'lokiio or St. Petersburg declaring that neither tlie Japanese nor the Russians will ever give iu. In place of endeavoring to foll nv the minute progress of the campaign, Ixmdoci somewhat hopelessly devote editorials preparing the English public to be witnesses that’ the war will be longer drawn out aud -mSre terrible in every respect thorn any within recent centuries.