Show JAPANESE DES ARE RARE I In one respect the differ great greatly from ro of other therna na nations I tons those who whose mOn ly con conscription fighting m Q a aze e heredy ton tion He Ik liken lab his J jel ad nd would rather lather he be 3 a solier tn than anything eb else Most soldiers ae ken keen In time of war but ut the Jop I Is e even n ken keen In time o of pf ae Al All abl Japanese ar are s soldiers Id In thery or the end lanct m of the ur army Is iK of al all men between th ages e COp of H 17 ad and 4 wo who are hot In ay any or of the other branche branches of the I naval and military service In pratt practice many thousands of oC Japanese who lo would 1 like to serve sere In the army are disappointed pointe pointed becse because names are n t drawn in tle the limited d The ofer officers ot of Uw various il ili mill i t tary r depot depots hav have to away crowd crowds of applicants who want to serve Ie be beI before I fore for their Um eOr comes The pD of f Ul the e I Is shown by bv the fact ar are rare the p bing being much lower than In any other large ann army lii In te the won orl The officers tret treat their men with much h more than Is usual In iii European an and there therea i comradeship between areal a real genuine then them Then men tire re 8 so willing that the they can be perfectly controlled by n a mUd mild discipline which would shok shock a Russian martineL There Sue two which J I cn can claim the o of n poe I ses seas In sid said a Japan Japanese n neSe eSe resident or of New York W was formerly tn itu In th the lU no I Im Ih arC t the bet best educated troops In vu world with the exception b Of the he am and the thuy I are certainlY the best marchers I A As for tor their they re eive hard and ulm almost st In It during training A An I result they I we were able to cover forty rt mUe miles a day I through the deep snows In fn Manchuria during the war wih with China and in good goodweather weather ott on good reeds they did as aR much as ff antI and sixty mUl miles They 3 a inure inured t to t the greatest hardships hardships During During that Manchurian wInter large bodies bodles of our troops had no winter clothing They marched and taught fought In their linen suit suits and nd slept out outon outon on te the fr frozen zen ground In them with only 3 a thin blanket or overcoat for tor On a hare o the be troops gee orally awa away their regulation 1 lealh leather I sho shoes and m ke sandals for forth n sa th themselves lelve out of straw The readily permit this for tor they te teJen the Jen wi vIiI Inh march better jn in th the aI The he fighting qualities o of th the Jae Japanese were er amY amply t the war with Cla hina a ain again In the tu to the relief o of the Peking legH The Chin Chinese wa war In particular r abunde abounded with bric heroic exploits On Oh ole one oslon occasion live Ja Japs le led by a sergeant charged br a Cj Chinese regi meat they had hod 1 ft to en rI noir noUre at night and routed it At te the siege I e of Pin Ping Yang an t named Harada sneaked u up tl t the wal wail after the Japanese bad been bete beaten back quietly sealed I it while the Chinese Were their victor victory dropped down don among ot of them and rn ran to the gate and opened it b be before fore they realized what he WI was doing He fought of off the entire crowd Until his Itis comrades in and captured the fort He ea escaped without 2 a scratch r and is no now one of Japans Japan n national lie he roe roes Japan h has supple supplied her with the lightest stile known ang among armies t Extremely short short this weapon p b has a an I effective range of o yards The he rule is thE the Invention of a Japanese and An ad of the best pint points ot of the Maimer an and other arms t to the needs es or of the Japanese service I Except for her warships Japan hn has s sa a armed herself H Her small arm arms are areher hr her ow own manufacture lr her equipment fol for mountain and field h has s sen been en turne turned out In her own arsenals I at t an and Asan Asaka and she is prepay In it pow now to 10 build buDd the largest guns re in br her na navy By Incessant nt stud study Ih hc thas lerne learned OIL aU that other could couO teach h her r in te the lne line ot of armament and she has taken wh what t she wanted In the way a of f ide Ideas and gone ahead quietly but steadily and equipped herself helf She her ber OWl own powder r nn and the material i used in the uniforms Is woven under government supervision The government even evenI breeds horsEs to improve the tb quality I of Its army mounts It buyS when colts and feeds and traIns theta then be before Core It them out to the differ dUCer eat ent troops of cavalry Her army and her na navy are the idols or of Japan Tapan and no detail has been too small for tor the go got gor t to attend t In order to bring the service to the d dree ee eZ eJ York Press |