On the alert: a cavalry picket searching a spruit. Actors in the Chinese drama: a “Boxer” Actors in the Chinese drama: a Japanese infantryman. The chief British military signatory to the peace terms. Japan. - Armies of the world The Balkan trouble: forces of the smaller Eastern European States. - The Armies of the World Muscovy in Manchuria: scenes of the Russian military preparations. The European and Asiatic rivals in the Far East: the Mikado. The war-cloud in the Far East: the threatened Russo-Japanese hostilities. A unique Russian fighting unit: the “Hunter scouts”. “Living bayonets”: the irresistible charge of the Japanese. The czar’s viceroy at his former headquarters: admiral Alexeieff at Port Arthur.