"THE RUSSIAN TROOPS WERE FORCED TO RETREAT FROM CHÖNG JU BY ATTACK OF JAPANESE, AND OUR SANITARY MEMBERS TO ATTEND ON WOUNDED Drawn by Shugetsu Shoda, a Japanese art student in the National Academy of Design, New York. T General Oku HE two Japanese military leaders who have gained the most fame in the present war are General Kuroki and General Oku. The former commands Japan's First Army and won the battle of the Yalu. The latter is at the head of the Second Army, and his masterly skill in landing that army on the Regent's Sword Peninsula, cutting the railway communication between Port Arthur and the Russian headquarters at Liaoyang, seizing Kinchow, and hurling his troops on the Russian fortifications at the Nanshan Hills, which were captured after one of the most terrible and bloody charges in the history of warall this, as well as his later movements, have extorted praise even from his enemy, General Kuropatkin, who is said to have commended equally Oku's strategical skill and his courage as those of a great soldier. |