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Show (From the Salt Lake Telegram of Friday, Feb. 12, 1904.) The little Japanese fighters have now the admiration ad-miration of the world at least outside of Rus sia within less than a week of war. Their dash, spirit and pluck are manifest, even at this stere of the game. True, they have not been tried y on land and they may fail before the ponderout i Russians. But their sea battles give an Idea of their alertness and their fighting qualities. ' iJ ONE WHO OBSERVED THE CLOSE FORMATIONS FORMA-TIONS OF THE RECENT JAPANESE ARMY MANEUVERS ASKED FIELD MARSHAL MARQUIS MAR-QUIS YAMAGATA IF JAPAN WOULD NOT CHANGE HER FIELD TACTICS TO SUIT THE CONDITIONS OF MODERN FIGHTING, AND HE REPLIED: "JAPAN WILL REVEAL HER TACTICS IN BATTLE. BE SURE THAT THEY WILL BE THOSE NECESSARY TO INSURE VICTORY." THIS WAS NOT THE SELF-CONFIDENCE OF THE UNBEATEN WARRIOR, BUT THE EXPRESSION EX-PRESSION OF THE ONLY SPIRIT JAPAN KNOWS, FOR HE NEVER CONSIDERS DEFEAT DE-FEAT EVEN AS A REMOTE POSSIBILITY. THE SEA OFFICERS AND MEN OF THE ISLAND EMPIRE, WHO WERE SPOILING FOR A FIGHT, GOT THEIR FIRST TASTE OF IT AT CHEMULPO AND PORT ARTHUR. FROM THE CREWS OF THE HUGE MIKASA AND HER SISTER BATTLESHIPS DOWN TO THE MEN ON SUCH CRAFTS AS THE WHITE-NAPED WHITE-NAPED CRANE AND THE DRAGON'S LAMP TORPEDO DESTROYERS THEY HAVE BEEN SWEARING BY EVERY ANCESTOR, THAT, IF LET LOOSE, THEY WILL SINK OR CAPTURE EACH CONSONANTLY NAMED RUSSIAN WARSHIP IN THE PACIFIC. THEY HAVE STARTED WELL, IF REPORTS FROM THE SCENE OF ACTION BE TRUE. AND DO THEY NOT CONTEMPLATE A POSSIBLE DEFEAT? DE-FEAT? YES, BUT CAPTURE, NO. NEVER WILL A JAPANESE SHIP, HIGH OR LOW, GO INTO PORT A PRIZE. WHEN THE TURRETS ARE JAMMED AND THE BIG GUNS DUMB, WHEN THE SCREWS ARE STILL AND ALL DEFENSE IS DEAD AND DONE, THE MEN CHOSEN BY LOT BEFORE THE BEGINNING OF ACTION WILL FROM THEIR STATION IN THE HEART OF THE SHIP PERFORM "THE LAST FULL MEASURE OF DEVOTION" IN EXPLODING THE MAGAZINES, MAGA-ZINES, AND THE SIXTEEN-PETALED CHRYSANTHEMUM CHRY-SANTHEMUM ON THE IMPERIAL STANDARD WILL GO DEEP DOWN IN A WELTER OF BLOOD AND STEAM AND SMOKE, TILL, "STREAKED WITH ASH AND SLEEKED WITH OIL, THE LUKEWARM WHIRLPOOLS CL08E." |