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Show Secret of Japan's Success. Gen. Sir Ian Hamilton of the British army wroto tho evening after one of the great battles which he had witnessed wit-nessed between Russians and Japanese Japa-nese In the recent war In Manchuria: "To bcdl Although it Is with reluctance re-luctance that I prepare to lose my grip of the exciting consciousness that I have to-day seen the most stupendous spectacle that It Is possible for mortal brain to conceive Asia advancing, Europe falling back; the wall of mist andthowriting thereon." Then as to the meaning of this retreat of Europe before be-fore advancing Asia: "The more I think the more certain I am that it was not strategy or tactics, or armament arma-ment or Information, which won the battle of Ltaoyang for Oyama, but that It was rather the souls of the Japanese troops which triumphed over the less developed, less awakened, less stimulated stimu-lated qualities of the Russians." |