telegrams bring the news that Japanese transports have arrived off
Pitsevo, near Port Arthur, and are effecting a landing. Pitsevo is a harbour and town on the east side of the Liaotung Peninsula, just opposite Port Adams, the fiord which on the west side runs so deep into the heart of the peninsula that at one point it is only eighteen miles wide. When the Japanese hold this line of eighteen miles, as they will the very day they land, Port Arthur, which is about seventy miles distant, will be cut off from the rest of the Russian forces, and can be made to stand a siege both by land and sea. So immediate is the prospect of complete invest- ment that Admiral Alexeieff, who was at Port Arthur, has already left the fortress. The Japanese strategy is thus be- coming apparent. It is to penetrate the Russian force and out it up in detail. The London police when they want to disperse a mob do much the same thing. They send in wedges of men who break off pieces of the crowd, and those detached pieces are then dealt with in detail. Collies separating a flock of sheep adopt the same principle. Strategy is always as simple as it is difficult.
