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TO MY FRIEND

Commander William H. H. Southerland, U. S. N.

THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED

"MAN OVERBOARD!"

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The North Pacific

A Story of the Russo-Japanese
War

By
Willis Boyd Allen
Author of "Navy Blue" and "Cleared for Action"

New York
E. P. Dutton & Company
31 West Twenty-third Street
1905

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Copyright, 1905
BY
E. P. DUTTON & CO.

Published, September, 1905

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

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PREFACE.

As in the preparation of Navy Blue and Cleared for Action, theauthor has taken great pains to verify the main facts of the presentstory, so far as they are concerned with the incidents of the greatstruggle still in progress between the empires of the East and the West.He acknowledges most gratefully the assistance received from the officeof the Secretary of the Navy, from ex-Secretary John D. Long, and fromCommander W. H. H. Southerland, now commanding the U. S. CruiserCleveland, Commander Austin M. Knight, President of the Board on NavalOrdnance, and Chief Engineer Edward Farmer, retired.

W. B. A.

Boston, June, 1905.

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