When the flagship 'Prince Suvaroff ' went down Admiral Rozhdestvensky
was saved by a destroyer, but was captured and carried with Admiral Nebogatolf to Sasebo a prisoner of war, thus adding to Togo's victory a dramatic completeness. So complete, indeed, has the destruction been that Russia, to regain any maritime position, must not only rebuild her fleet, which will cost her £30,000,000, in addition to the 1330,000,000 already lost, but must create a new naval service out of untried men. Her sailors died in heaps in the battle of "the Sea of Japan," as Admiral Togo has named the engagement, but they did not show the resolution of the soldiers, the Third Squadron, in particular, having " surrendered " ; and there is evidence of want of strategical skill, of great con- fusion in action, and of a certain amount of hopelessness, officers and men being accused in several cases of suicide. The truth seems to be that the Russians, however formidable on land, have not the instinct of the sea, and only waste life when they face the terrible islanders who understand mari- time warfare, make every preparation, and then fight as if every sailor had volunteered for a forlorn hope. The tone of the moment is to accumulate praise on Admiral Togo, the "Japanese Nelson," and that is just; but what assistance he must have had both from officers and men ! It is not only that Japan has become a Great Power, but a great maritime Power, with the broad Pacific to practise her lesson in. She has beaten Russia, not only by incomparable valour, but by a cool scientific application of means to ends.
