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Show ffSHllFFET ON JAPANESE ACTIVITY I Views Are Wide Apart as to Point Most in Need of Help. RUSSIA IS MENTIONED Believed Americans Will Make the Trans-Siberian J Railway Serviceable, PARIS, Nov. 17. (By malt to New York.) Japanese military Intervention In the great war Iooiuh larger and larger as a topic of discussion by military writer in French newnpapers. The continued do- feet ion of Russia prompts the demands, which are being reiterated dally in the1 variou.t great Paris dailies, that fome use he made of tlie yellow race In the struggle against the, Teutons. But there haa come a minor split In the i'linip of tiiose who ouid use Japanese Japa-nese troops. Whereas, a few wee.ks ago, the tntKudu's legion were mggft-ted only for tue KuMiian front, tod.iy there are manv writers urging that the Nipponese be sent to Me.sopotamia or to Palestine. And from several quarters the demand Is made that they be sent to Macedonia. Mea n while, a prvnif that Germany Is entirely alive to the situation, comes an nrticlrt in the Munchuer Neueste Nairn -richlen announcing that Japanese Iroopa are Nelng concentrated on the Munch Mun-ch urian frontier "In readineys to ho sent to the Russian front." The Munich newspaper news-paper asserted further that If the Tran-Slberlan Tran-Slberlan railway were operated by Americans Ameri-cans Its carrying capacity might ho Increased In-creased so greatly beyond what it was in Russian hands that the problem of transporting trans-porting an army and its supplies might Lo overcome. Views Widely Differ. Le Temp, often considered the seml-off seml-off ici;U mouth pievo of the French government, gov-ernment, observed, in quoting the Munich naw.sjapor's ortlc.e. that Japanese troops fighting side by side with Russians would probably tend to raise the morale of the Muscovites. Direct issue with this view 1 taken by General Cher f lis, however, writing in the Echo de Pans, the organ of the military mili-tary hierarchy. General Cherfils declares that the presence of Japanese troops on the Russian front would prompt continual clashes between the Muscovites and the Japanese and would irnpulr the whole morale of both armies: that t he Trans-Siberian Trans-Siberian railway would be unable adequately ade-quately to handle a Japanese army and to transport its supplies. General Cherfils ends his discourse by asserting "there are othc r places wr.re we would better use our allies of Tokio. Two armies would suffice to produce much greater results If sent to two ot her fronts." There is no doubt thnt General Cherfila means Mesopotamia and Palestine Pales-tine by the "two other fronts." M. Camille 1 leviiar. writ tug In the Socialist So-cialist dally. l Rappl, expresses willingness willing-ness that Japanese troop? be sent to defend de-fend Bacdad instead of Petrograd. if the allies wish, but he urges haste In making mak-ing some use of the available army. Vessels Insufficient. Colonel Chevalier, military critic for Le Pays, which is regarded as the o:gan of M. Caillaux. attempts to prove that lack of bottoms prohibits tlie transport of Japanese troops further than to VLadi-. VLadi-. vostok, and that troop ships could not he found to carry them to the Persian gulf nor to Egypt-There Egypt-There Is a growing' feeling among the allied officials and minions against sending send-ing too much material to Russia at this time. Lundendorf f's communiques an-nonnce an-nonnce the capture of huge quantities of supplies of all kinds, from railway rolling stock to guns, shells, aeroplanes, armored motor cars and machine guns. Nine per cent of this material was sent to Russia by Japan, England, France or the I'nited States from stocks which could ill be spared, especially by Franc and England, who ha ve need of every aeroplane, gun and shell they can produce on the west front. , So, as fuller reports flow Jn concerning the magnitude of Marshal von Falken-hayn's Falken-hayn's proposed drive against Bagdad and the Suez canal, there are many who would prefer to see the British armies there strengthened by Japanese reinforcements. A French officer, who writes under the nom de plume of "Pertinax." has published pub-lished a more or less complete account of Falkenhayn's activities tn Turkey in Asia In the Eclio de Pari. Received by Kaiser. "Pertinax" tees a close co-ordination between the announcement of the North German Gazette on August 28 that Djemal Pasha had been received by the kaiser and was being taken on a tour of inspection through the big German munitions mu-nitions plants, and the fact that Yon Fal-kenhayn Fal-kenhayn was In Aleppo, a mobilization point for a drive either against the Suez canal or Bagdad. D.iemal Pusha. who has held command of the Turkisli forces in Syria, is a bitter bit-ter enemy of Enver Pasha and is reported report-ed to have made strenuous objections a month ago when arrangements were being be-ing made for Falkenhayn to be placed in supreme command of the Turkish army, displacing old Marshal von der Goltz. Enver En-ver Pp sha succeeded easily in putting Falkenhayn at the head of the Turkish army in Mesopotamia because of the failure fail-ure of the former Turkish general to hold Bagdad. More Corps Found. "Pertinax" believes that tlie kaiser himself will personally request D.iemal Pashn to permit "unity of command and ronirol" bv letting Von Falkenhsyn take supremo command of the Turkish army. From reports received since via Switzerland, Switzer-land, that Falkenhayn has inspected tlie Gaza front and established headquarters in Jerusalem, it is believed that he already al-ready has taken over nominal command of the Turkish armies in Syria. Advices from Constantinople indicate that from seven to nine new army corps of Turkish troops are being formed and that Turkish divisions fighting on the Macedonian and Russian fronts are to be recalled for the operations agiUnst the Suez canal and Bagdad. The Turkish campaign will be facilitated this year because be-cause of the completion of the Peril n-Bagdnd n-Bagdnd railway, the two breaks In the mountainous country having been eliminated elimi-nated by the completion of the tunnels. General Cherfils sees the necessitv of heavily reinforcing the British armies in Svrla and Mesopotamia, not only for defending de-fending the position? they have won, but for exerting a strong pressure In t he Torm of a counter offensive against the German-led Turks. Differ as to Numbers. He believes that two Japanese armies of 2i'0.i'00 men each would be sufficient to assure the success of converging allied al-lied operations In both Syria and Mesopotamia. Meso-potamia. On the other hand. General Cherfils insists that nothing short of an army of a millian Japanese would sufiice on the Russian front. In other words, he be-1 be-1 lieves that there cannot be reinforcement of Russians by Japanese, that there must be substitution. The t'cldicrs would never v fraternize, he avers, any more than any two diJferent races will fraternize. Regarding the difficulty of transport over tlie Trans-Siberian railway, (.lencral Cherfils reminds military writers that in tho Russo-Japanese war in 1005, the Russians Rus-sians mad ft the trip irom Moscow to Mukden in thirty days, operating thirteen troop trains a day. each train carrying 1000 men. Taking into consideration the rolling stock necessary for ca trying material ma-terial and supplies, it would take today rive months to transport five Japanese armies of "00,000 men each across Liberia by rail. Probably Out of Repair. Railway experts a?ree with General Cherfils that tiie Trans-Siberian railway is not probably in good operating condition, condi-tion, since it has been impossible for any railways to keep up their line and rolling stock since tlie war. Regarding1 the o; t-published reports that tiie Trans-Siberian railway has heen double tracked by the labor of Austrian prisoners of war, it Is pointed out that tills is fallacious, as the prisoners miht ' have praded the riht of way and worked j en cuts and fills, but they certainly did not make the rails and other steel sup-I sup-I plies which Russia has not imported since the war. and which Russia has not manufactured either. Russia's slight manufacturing ability has been concentrated concen-trated entirely on uns and shells and 1 naval work. r |