Great Britain War Office; General Staff 
Russo-Japanese War [PDF ebook] 

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The shame of this surrender, though unavoidable, sank deep into the hearts of the Samurai. And in the minds of Japanese statesmen the dread of Russia grew. They knew that China had proved in 1860, and before, her inability to protect her own interests, and that though she posed as Suzerain of Korea, whose north east frontier was conterminous with that of Russia, the task of keeping that dependency inviolate was beyond her strength.