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Title: The War in the East: Japan, China, and Corea

Author: Trumbull White

Illustrator: J. C. Fireman

Teitoku Morimoto

Release date: September 23, 2017 [eBook #55608]
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Language: English

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BATTLEFIELD OF PING-YANG.

The War in the East.

JAPAN,
CHINA,
AND COREA.

A complete history of the War: Its causes and results; its campaigns on sea and land; its terrific fights, grand victories and overwhelming defeats.

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With a preliminary account of the customs, habits and history of the three peoples involved. Their cities, arts, sciences, amusements and literature.

BY
TRUMBULL WHITE,
Late Correspondent of the “North China Daily News,” and the “Kobe Herald.”
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
JULIUS KUMPEI MATUMOTO, A.M.
OF TOKIO, JAPAN.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
TEITOKU MORIMOTO, J.C. FIREMAN,
and others.
P.W. ZIEGLER & CO.,
Philadelphia, Pa.; St. Louis, Mo.
Copyrighted, 1895, by
TRUMBULL WHITE