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Battle of Mukden ending in 1905...
Battle of Mukden ending in 1905...
Item # 719588
March 03, 1905
EVENING TRIBUNE, San Diego, March 3, 1905
* Battle of Mukden
* Shenyang, Manchuria
* Russo-Japanese War
The top of the front has a five column headline: "ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE IS RAGING WEST OF MUKDEN" with subhead. (see) Nice for display. Surprisingly this issue is in good condition being from the "wood pulp" era. Very hard to find issues that are not totally fragile from this era in paper.
Complete with 6 pages, 2 small library stamps within the masthead, irregular along the spine, generally nice.
AI notes: The Battle of Mukden (February 20 – March 10, 1905) was the climactic land engagement of the Russo-Japanese War and one of the largest battles fought before World War I. Taking place in Manchuria near the city of Mukden (modern-day Shenyang, China), it involved more than 600,000 troops in total—about 270,000 Japanese under Field Marshal Ōyama Iwao and 330,000 Russians commanded by General Alexei Kuropatkin. The Japanese launched a massive offensive designed to encircle the Russian army, coordinating flanking maneuvers and relentless frontal pressure. After weeks of brutal fighting in freezing conditions, Kuropatkin’s forces collapsed and began a chaotic retreat northward, abandoning vast supplies and equipment. The Japanese victory was decisive: it ended Russia’s ability to mount further large-scale operations in Manchuria and directly influenced Russia’s decision to negotiate peace, leading to the Treaty of Portsmouth later that year. The scale of the battle—lasting nearly three weeks and producing some 150,000 casualties—foreshadowed the industrialized slaughter of World War I.
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