Excerpt from Expenditures of the Sino-Japanese War What the Balkan peninsula has so long been to Europe, the peninsula Of Korea has for centuries been to the Far East a haunted palace wherein lurked an unceasing source Of danger to the peace of the Orient. With a vast empire more than four thousand years Old as its immediate neighbor on the one side and the indomitable Empire Of Japan on the other, it was not strange that the peninsula never gave birth to a strong or independent nation, for it is scarcely possible for small trees to flourish among giants Of the forest. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.