| Show ELEMENTS OF FIGHTING STRENGTH upon the situ situation aLlon of the japanese in china with choir long line their distance tance from the base of supplies and with the winter upon them the tha denver news says with a napoleon a sheridan or a stonewall Jacks jackson nt the he head of 0 a select body or of chinese troops the japernese Jap enese invasion of manchuria might easily casily be turned into a rout the strategic strate elo condl conditions favor that rep result u it but a le leader ader ot of the necessary stamp has yet to be developed in in an empire where football find and athletics a are re frowned upon as a bail barbarous bai barous larous and that is every word true it if such a man as phil sheridan was thirty ye years irs ago today to day could have ten tea thousand modern with plenty ot of ammunition to put into the hands ot of ten thousand Callic sit and could have a month in which to train them and then could get a ci liance at the stretched out line of the japanese toe lic would about destroy their army in china in three hires weeks but then there ire are no phil Sheri dans there and phil Sherl dans are not very plentiful in ill the world in any country try neither phil nor stonewall jacksons mien we vc pre siano rhe he japanese have taken ill all thesa facts into consideration and that even it there was an able commander among the chinese lie he would be so go crippled and interfered with that all his strength would be frittered frit fritt ered awny away there Is a point too in the tha last line of the tha extract from the 11 mows lows other things brine bering equal in a nation most proficient pron clent in all kinds of athletics and the nailon which urbich Is the foremost at among long horse tamers la Is the nation that on trial that Is the real trial of an ex hauert lve war will win when nelson kelson was confronted by the french fleet on tile tho eve of the battle of the nile akile the french admiral malle made no mistake in the disposition of his fleet except that he left unprotected a wide stretch of shallow BhaI Iov water on ore one flank and the historian his borlan ot of it says but net pon eon who had been an expert pilot ever since his boyhood drove his II 11 abter ships ehlis into that shoal water attacking both links ot of tins fleet at once and the result the world it knows nelson did not happen to lie be a mad made sailor li lie was a born sailor and BO r he never feared to attack a stronger stron ncr enemy than himself believing ill that at he could make up in skill what he lacked in ships and officers napoleon won lis victories in italy the vio victories lories which first gave him great farno fame by 19 snoring certain prescribed rules will v alch cal had before governed military move merits in europe and made up in 11 audacity and alert alertness what he lacked in strength in the willlad there Is 13 a de lit in magnificent verse of he how w one t ulysses and die diomed med having heard that a certain icing had joined the tha trojans and brought alth illin him some magnificent horses the two slipped through the lines of the tro janis cut down the tha sentries stole the magnificent horses and kot got lack back to carno safely the was in nelson when lit in ilia his boyhood lie went ills his boats through dangerous oil channels andels the garral wiloh tully fully matured at trafalgar was already warm wann ins I 1 ng hato Iw tolita life lit in his loll 1011 a mob had of patis paris and was about to overthrow every semblance of a EU u dhority the soldiery were ivere put pal in charge chai sc ot of a I 1 little meadly looking named bonaparte and he in an hour tl earod the streets with willi grapeshot crape gra shot and bayonets ahen ailien tit all the rest frest were help lees not kr lowing what to do the instinct which later drove his army over iiii hi alps and concentrated three or four milos ml s anan d harint parts paim of france lra nw in n a riven a v at austerlitz mals it il ready to quickens qu ajic ickers kan we cite those thom illustrations to berhow how slow law will sly be the word vuori ot 0 making of ithe Citi chines neso a in martial bartl a I 1 people M the e J japanese a in the lari guage of 0 the street b hava va cabet Cau glat on im nen rely jn anty ove years yeam but bul the lie japanese slave not yet been tried in such art an ordeal as ag they would af 1 they were facing soldiers EOld lers 0 T f the Caurs mian sian race they have done bome good especially tha jr sea brt br bt t t it makes a good oeal deal ol of WILI nn an a ay army Y v land of a too roe they bave have would they I 1 have n ave done as well had they been confronted by an enemy ano ny that could have fired lre 3 torpedoes as fast as themselves es and could have given broadside abr broadside with perfect accuracy and ana will if chista china had bad sent to the united states a year ago aero and apken our gov to elve about fifty eltty lieutenants la in our army and navy leave of absence and had given those mose a chance to pick out and discipline a fe few w thousand of their heir best and sailors Bai lors our belief Is it would have been a moncy tricking business on the part of oc china and japan would have bare had more work to do wian khan sibe she has had up to date since the beginning ot or this war |
