An ambulance on ski: a curious Russian method of conveying the wounded on a sledge extemporised from snow-shoes. "Details guarding the line": Russian viligance on the Trans-Siberian railway The invisible advance of the Japanese army to the Yalu: General Kuroki's troops marching under cover of artificial screens of brushwood. After the third attack Beleaguered Port Arthur: a brisk moment in a Russian battery A melee in a thunderstorm: the combat between Cossacks and Japanese cavalry at the battle of Wa-Fang-Kau Rival commanders at Liao-Yang, and the great operations of august 31 to september 3 Within touch of Port Arthur: Japanese outposts creeping up to the forts The long line of misery: toil and distress of a Russian retreat in Manchuria The cliff-dwellers of North America and their descendants Troglodytes of the twentieth century: a village of cave-dwellers in Cappadocia The motor in the new Chinese army: a review by the viceroy of Kiang-su