Show G II J 0 0 lID I 0 G Jj S p 0 I I Ii W JE 1 0 T i Q j D 0 l 1 u u u u u r 0 ll D O TJ O Or r By IR R Special ecta GaMo Dispatch 11 trait from Coiners War w Correspond Correspondent nd I eat ent with the First Japanese Army of ot Invasion Korea vii via vi ee April 17 li I two months of oot inaction cotton at Ti r tail X am ant at last at atIn AFTER A In the field Aoki following the mats main Japanese 1 e army that thatis 1 is la marching to W and the sn urIan a border I Along A this highway ay reading leading lead Ina from Chet c o to signs of 91 war V and of the passage of marry many ma troops m ire scarcely more than ere military maa preparations iu in Japan All signs st are peaceful 1 The only arty indication I iLat t La t the army Is somewhere e ahead is ia the long tonK lines Unes of coolies Japanese Japa and ao d Korean bearing rice flee from the de depots pots lots and transport trant to feed the troops oa on the road Thou I t rands ui of these coolies cool and Dd amah amatt carts carta maintain the line or of communication units unbroken n 11 with w h the military discipline and system that extends Ml t every detail of the field or organization organization g The roads road are in the throes of the spring thaw but their t ir difficulties have uve been beell exaggerated so IJO far fara I a tI blocking the advance Is concerned eon med The rhe whole fighting strength at of the Japanese army is 1 dually Actually at t the front trout with all U necessary au art pre I ared for tor decisive operations o Evers g ebe ved along alongi aloft I 1 i hit h 1 If is route as u I 1 hasten baston toward U hit J t army y I c cLope Lope soon to see flee in action actton goes O to show bow the tM t preparedness of the Japanese Ja army arm of f invasion Inv for tor great frats feats I Besides Beside He the characteristic Y efficiency now nO seen MeeD at close loee range rance Japan Ia faa has used the U last two months also a o t I Iii I J 1 ii t 1 making maid her Influence i ot dominant throughout Yot Korea ea b by Y Il i iI I l f measures The people have been beat over until E 1 heir to Is spontaneous Japan has policed t the tile j I iI I t with small posts poets widely wid ly scattered I have tray trav tra c Pied ted twenty miles without pawing one of these few out l guarding the line of communication Security for I lly trains train peace ace and confidence among amo the populace i 1 have hn ha vo t been attained by other means mea In the path of ot this H l fut at army moving by forced for ed marches march s in winter W weather there are no horned burned villages no plundered houses no nu nl f peasantry There has been aee no license or lose disorder di among the They The have b ne left no stories of hose discipline in I It t wake The head had mean of the Koreans Korean villages tell me met that cat t the conduct of the tile individual duat privy private i soldier has hasI Lt I in II exemplary All AU supplies taken en route ruu are paid for fora foral al a i l native market rates Hostile said aid hi the tile Japanese Jae I wore wre on their best be behavior behn havior hn lor in io the Peking relief operations when cooperating v S th the allies but that in 10 their own campaigns ne away aa ti Horn in foreign forein scrutiny they the would wage ace brutal tal and un warfare This ft Is ta flatly con contradicted by their ii lurch 1 1 h through tit Korea Their advance has beo as smooth and n m orderly as that of a British column in India the thet t as t in every evel way The natives native are re on un their little farms making the fields I ready for tOr spring cultivation already sowing i crops of oats oat They rr P 1 tey y are unconverted war or O auntie armies ann which I have not n t yet yet tro troubled them In the summer months the farming fat CIU e of northern Korea will furnish tam grant t I quantities of fill nod t od supplies lles for the tile Japanese e bases basa The 4 e officers scattered along the Ute roots charge e of at the posts surd and transportation organisation have bave bavel liten l n notably nota v and aid iii ta to the tM party Mart of oft t I a war r with wh their troop trOop of ef servants ind pack animate animals The head bead men of the Korean villages have ha n taken the eue en from Irom the tile military and hasten to place our disposal whatever comforts and luxuries of ac 1 their modest mode t means me can offer It is ia slow v irk ork getting tU en 1 at best made de more uncomfortable ua by the theat k ai at that the fist first rat great peat clash cl may ma come somewhere were close e 10 to the Yalu before the advance adva ce guard award of t the tile correspond correspondents CIt army ann can CUI join the general mera staff Meantime we are passing through a Karea x that has hasK K b en ri keenly keen and subtly bUy made J in is twe a ac c U by 7 kindness fair treatment and a nice olce kill in ha S r public and private t opinion NIop Copyright tIN t by Colliers Cotters Weekly n n n n 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