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Show VALUE OF SECRECY LEARIDFRl JAPAN LONDON Aug 16 10 oO p m While Japan has borrowed most of her military science from Europe she taught the west in return the enormous alue of secrecy in warfare Al the powers engaged in the Europe death grapple have learned that lesson. Reports f ora Belgium sas that the German prisoners have no regimental In s gnla on their un forms and have been-instructed been-instructed to refuse informaton as to what regiments they are attached In IS 0 the Eng sh newspapers gave full accounts of the German and French regi ments where they were and what regl raents composed each army The com mands and personal ties of all the ead ng generals were wide y known Over all these details the armies en gaged n tne war tneater n western nai rope except perhaps the Belgian ha e fo ded a sh oud of mystery concern ng the men who v I p ay the greatest par s In the d;ama T e publ c know s almost noth ng about the commander In ch ef of the French army General Joseph J C Joffre Joffre is not an adve Us ng gen era! Even the French people know less ahout him than a most any man who ever gu ded their military machine The present d sposit ons of the com batant forces the r mo ements and plans are chiefly matters of guess wo k Ex perts can on v surm se that dur ng the oppress ve darkness of the past fortnight of mobl zat on and of suspense for Eu rope the four great armies of Germany France Austria and Russ a ha e been mo ing into pos tl ons, wh ch those who ha e tl eorized on the subject have ex ; pe ted i The great mob 1 zat on appears to ha e p 0 ed one fact that even the German organization when put to the test under rea war cond Hons .could not move as fast as expe ted The great swift bat , tie on the French f ontler which was due ' last w eek has not yet begun so far as is known or perhaps It may be beg nnlng today Not even the Japanese were ab e to j cover the r movements with such a c oud of secrecy as the m I ions of men now mar h ng on the greatest scale the world has e er known. The censorship wh ch has been d awn around Europe except for a few outlv ng neutral countr es Is ch efly responsib e for the success of th s up to date m 1 ' tary secrecy No telegram pr ate or for the newspapers goes' out of any belligerent country without passing un der the eye and the penc 1 of a keen cen sor Germany and- Austria have almost sealed the other usual means of commu nlcatio The Brit s newspapers discuss the war more f ee y than the cont nental papers but under the imperat ve request of the war off ce they say noth ng of the move mente of troops or ships The German newspapers accord ng to reports pr nt on off c al news The Br tl&h a my perm ts a few war correspondents to take the fed but un der strict ru eB The Fren h staff p o h b ts correspondents at the front from us ng the te egraph The Russ an army wi I have no correspondents The German staff Is known s rongly to disapprove of them |