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Show llllllltllllllllHIlilllli v m . among the new books mHMiHHMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIimilUIIIMUIIIUIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIHIIIimHIIHHHIIimiBIHIIIIIIIIIimiMIIIIIIMIIIIIUIIIBIIlllUimj ST WE FIGHT JAPAN. By Published by entury Company, New York. Pitkin. B. I i i I ! ; ! ' Wal-e- r The : t is the authors opinion that our y nces of war with Japan are im-nsel- greater than were our chances war with Germany ten years ago. 1 of us will remember how confident r pacifist population was a decade o that great wars were of the past, metimes, it is true, they were rtled for a moment out of their consilience by the speculations of a Euro- ean correspondent or the warnings of soldier or statesman. There is a danger that our popula--. lion may relapse into the error that blurred their vision of European af- fairs and the danger is all the greater '' from the fact that the Japanese men-.- : gee affects us directly, whereas the 'German menace could and did affect us only indirectly. I Those who fancy that because of our riches and military and naval strength Japan will not attack us are also laboring under a delusion. It is necessary to recall to their minds the fact that Germany, with a few submarines, 'almost drove her enemies from the sea. Japan, with many more submarines than Germany possessed, probably will be able to bar our ships en" . . S pin ' veB er d; tirely from Atlantic waters. The author enumerates the resem-- . y blances of policy between pre-wa- r and Japan of today, and there is Ger-Iman- one of those resemblances not without : ' its significance on the naturalization j question. Germany, as we know, didall that she could to retain the allegij;ance of her subjects who had to live other countries. Japan does the ;in 1 same. I'-'. The Civil Code of Japan, Volume 3, f Arti-r.- ;i states, "A child is a Japanese if his or her father is a Japanese at the time of his or her birth. Thus, every boy and born in a Japanese workmans family girl in Hawaii or California is a Japanese cit-- : cle 66, izen. And the boy is legally bound to ren- der military service in the mikados army his seventeenth and fortieth j years. There is only one way in which he can avoid this duty and that is to renounce formally his allegiance to Japan in a regular form provided by the Japanese government, and then wait until the Japanese government formally accepts this renunciation. 4 between i The author says that this is a re:1 markable state of affairs. Certainly it is. Mr. Charles E. Martin of the If before versity of Califorhia says: the age of seventeen a Japanese has not expatriated himself . . . the act can not be affected until he has satisfied the military requirements . . . Should a Japanese (in America) return to Japan he would be held for military duty and his American citizenship (if he enjoyed such) would not be j 3 1 t Do you see what this means as to the status of the descendants of Japanese bom In the United States? Our laws treat all children born in our land as citizens. Thus we have today thousands of boys and girls born of Japanese parents possessing all the rights and privileges of Americans. These children will not go to Japan In any numbers. They will remain here, grow up with the country,, marry,' have children of their own, and permanently establish the line here. If, however, their fathers did not render miltlary service to Japan, or if, having rendered it, they applied for expatriation in vain, then all these boys and girls born in our land must remain. Japanese citizens, subject to military service under the mikado, and all their children and their childrens children, and thus to the end of time. ii and-Californi- a . It Is from the military point of view that the book is the most interesting. Who would be the winner in an war, and how?. What would be the plans of attack and defense? And here the author gives us some unpleasant opinions. He tells us that there are three impregnable countries Japan, America and Russia. Japan, in a purely defensive war, is the most powerful country on earth, except America: Ameri-can-Japene- se It may aid the American reader in grasping the true inwardness of this situation if we translate it into American geography. Japan proper is a little larger than California. Her continental possessions, leaving Shantung entirely out of the reckoning, of course, are more than three times the size of California and are much more easily developed, particularly in agriculture. Now break California up into thousands' of islands, scatter these from two to four hundred miles off shore, and then give her absolute dominion over our whole line of Pacific coast states and Arizona. Think now merely of a picture of Japans continental power in defensive warfare. A German expert said truly that an army dependent for all its supplies rear line eight upon a thousand miles long is beaten before the first shot is fired. Germany herself proved this in her war against the Hereros and Hottentots. The allied land-and-wat- er forces were unable to invade Germany. Great Britain could not take Galipoli from the Turks: at Japan, her power, and her position. It will amaze you, unless ica alone had undertaken an offensive war against Germany. Even a Y. M. C. A. canteenist could have predicted the result. We should have been involved in ruin so complete that even Germanys plight today would seem comfortable in contrast: termaster added that it seemed fairly easy to secure recruits for the Atlantic fleet, but very hard to hold them on the Pacific Japan is twice as far from Americas The author turns for. a moment to a strategical consideration of the Philippines. Could the islands be defended? He says no. An American ship utlimate base of supplies as Germany is. Hence, on the most conservative basis of estimating such matters, Japan would be four times as difficult to attack on her own ground as Germany would be. If it took 890,000 British soldiers to conquer 75,000 Boers who had no navy, at all, it would take at least as many Americans to defeat every 75,000 Japanese protected on their own ground by a modern navy and the most highly organized miltarism in the world. As Japan would easily put an army of 5,000,000 in the field for a defensive war, the United States would have to send against uer eventually an army at least sixty-si- x times as large as the British sent Boers. That would mean an the aaginst American expeditionary force of a mere 58,740,000 men. Suppose that every American ship was pressed into transport service in the event of an offensive war against Japan. In October, 1920, America possessed 3,404 vessels of a total tonnage of 16,918,212 tons. What sort of an army could be maintained by such a transport fleet? Less than a million men: Of course, in reality, not more than one-ha- lf of that fleet could be diverted to such a purpose during the .first year of a Far Eastern war. Not only do we lack officers and seamen and western terminal facilities for loading and unloading Buch a horde of vessels; but we could not cut off our trade with the rest of the world so abruptly, as we depend on merchantmen for many basic supplies. At the end of a year the most strenuous and costly reorganization, coupled with much more shipbuilding, we might have an equivalent of that fleet in the Far Eastern service. And during this year we should find ourselves confronted, so far as Japan is concerned, with a powerful navy operating in its home waters, behind a treemndous mine barrage and backed up by an army of from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 soldiers, all intrenched behind excellent land fortifications. The American navy is more than twice as powerful as the Japanese, but none the less there are some considerations that must not be lost sight of: Look closely you happen ot have thoroughly mastered the geography and economics of Aisa. In the strategic potency of her lands there is only one country elsewhere on earth at all comparable with her, and that is the United States, although of course the two lands differ enormously in their economic aspects. Old Japan is a vast archipelago that completely dominates the mainland hundred of Asia for more than twenty-fiv- e miles. To grasp this one fact, imagine, if you will, Newfoundland and all the islands of our West Indies, from Cuba down to the tiniest of the Bahamas, scattered up and down the Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to Panma. Put them from two to four hundred miles out at sea, sprinkle fifteen or twenty thousand reefs and rocks at inconvenient spots all about them, make most of their shores sheer cliffs, then put on them sixty million brisk, seafaring folk, all as good sailors as the British and Scotch, and all perfectly organized under a militaristic autocracy. Then you will get half the idea, but only half. In fact, not quite half. Suppose, says the author, that Amer There are, however, three facts of prime Importance that nullify this physical su- periority of our fleet. The first is our great distance from Japan and the strategic weakness of our line of supply between San Francisco and Manila. The second is the division of our fleet into two parts, which are more than five thousand miles removed from each other, one in the Pacific and the other in the Atlantic. And the third is the appalling shortage of trained personnel on all our vessels, which is so grave that, according to naval authorities who were interviewed by the Chicago Tribune recently, it would con sume at least a year to make the fleet fit to fight even if It were reunited in a single body and fully officered and manned. This opinion has been subscribed to by several naval officers whom I consulted at San Francisco and San Diego. Some of them asserted that, In its desperate efforts to keep the boats intact, the recruiting officers were now refraining from too close scrutiny of the age and the origin of would-b- e sailors, with the result that fourteen-year-ol- d boys in considerable numbers may now be found aboard our battleships. One very Intelligent quar side, where desertions were frequent. And a lieutenant at San .Diego said that the boys lately recruited were so green and reckless that he was afraid to turn in whenever his vessel put to sea for .raa-neve- rs. plying between San Francisco and Manila would be under attack for a thousand miles, and to the south of that track there are more than a hundred islands: The British, French and Italian navies combined were unable to hold in check the German submarines, when Germany was driven off- the high sea. What could the American navy do in overcoming the Japanese submarines, when the whole of Japan itself is on the high seas, with its outposts scattered so widely? Is it to be wondered at that all naval experts who have spoken on this matter agree that, from the military point of view alone( the United States could not prevent Japan from conquering the Philippines? - But we need not be terrified, says the author, unnecessarily. If it is so difficult for America to attack Japan, it is equally difficult for Japan to attack America: All this need not terrify us in this Jap- anese crisis. For happily the converse of the predicament is equally true. Japan not wage a successful war with the United States on their own ground. 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