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Show Japanese Guile. War Is an old game, tho oldest In tho world; so old that no Imagination would seem fortilo enough to devlso new stratagems for Its successful playing. play-ing. Tho mine of deception having bc-cn assiduously worked for thousands of years. Ingenious must be tho wit able , to bring something novel out of tho vein something original not set down In tho books. Yet Japaneso Invention In-vention has been equal to tho task. Tho military text writers havo been furnished fur-nished with now material for notc3 on how to trick an enemy. Tho correspondents havo mentioned two incidents at tho battle of Mukden which suggest tho resources of Japaneso Japan-eso artfulness. A certain barb-wlro entanglement protecting a Russian forco needed to bo carried. To advance against It meant great loss of life. So a Japanese company which had gained tho debatablo ground faced around. turned their backs on tho enemy, nnd hegan firing vigorously In tho direction direc-tion of tho Japaneso lines- So firing they gradually gavo way, and, backing up, gained and destroyed tho obstruction. obstruc-tion. Tho Russians naturallv did not ohoot at those they deemed friends. Another trick diverted an artlllory lire from a critical placo at a critical tlmo. Tho Japanese planted ground mines at a distance from their truo position. When tho Russian cannon commenced to do damage, thty exploded theso mines. Tho Russian gunners, seeing earth flying In the nlr, thought tho disturbance dis-turbance was -where their shells had struck. This not being tho target, Unchanged Un-changed their range and no longer did the Japaneso harm. ,.4A Port Arthur, whon the searchlights search-lights wero playing. Japaneso cut down Bhrubbory and carried It as they crawled forward. When tho light picked them up they wore in tho shade, nnd all that the hlllsldo chowed was ln-tiocont-lopklng bushes. To destroy electrically charged wire entanglements, entangle-ments, bombs wcro attached to the ends of long bamboo poles, through which ran fuses. Ono correspondent tells of a bunch of detcrmlned-to-dlo men sent forward on a certain mission, who broke- practically all their teeth chow-,,nc chow-,,nc rilDl!r from mlno connections which they had unexpected! v found, and whlcn they did not havo Implements Imple-ments to cut. Much has been written of Japanese bravery, but it seems equaled by Japaneso tricklness. Not without with-out gullo arc theso cousins of tho ITeathen Chinee. They aro not of tho temper of inc old Romans, who condemned a gener-a. gener-a. for resorting to stratagem, saying that it argued a falling away from tho ancient practice, which was by valor, and not by artifice, surprises, or night encounters, or by pretended flights, ambuscades or deceitful de-ceitful acts, to overcome an enemy. Tho Japancoo prefer to net on Lysander's precept pre-cept and "where the lion's skin Is ton phort, oke It out with tho fox's case." Thoy nro studious to cover and do not Bcruplo to manufacture artful advantage. Hence, although continuously on tho offensive, of-fensive, their battlo losses havo been less, both In killed and wounded, than their enemy's. Now York Globe. |