| Show I q I 1 JAPANS ARMY AND NAVY I h Ranked at aL To Top p or of Japan lapan Naval Naya Lilt In InI while whits With nith Chins China are r Now al t tt i I Hattie Ships end nd Bring Strength I I With That of Oat power Strong end and endI I t I ll Drilled Arm With Trained In InH H Military Ol o Europe and I rr are aIM Ih the c Pow I have lille begs ding e I t all crits In 10 Chins la II tn 11 ur or sat would force forett Yet wh tu JUIl II ne It w was at such as I 1 that hal t I European are area re rek k It t on ont a t ne of t them tsar w red reads the field j ln n I Into kl nit It Ito and aDd te HuI which lad bad W dove daYi from 1 wu we unprepared In i f TIle The only i nt yet whollY lase power which 1 n agency both on 00 land Jand landy y Japan a little ru o r art f a century ago 0 J as dark clark as asI I 1 thing about the read I take hr her part In the rat J rat of the lOt world nt I t d 1 development of her herI I I I O resources In the thetla theu u have e elapsed she he f re art and on the Ii 1 s n Turk Herald Then tt t n s of f 00 gave gavet t t o at t that the I Id gasped with u as ui asi i 1 i then applauded her ber bertt heri tt i w I 1 I I II t water Japan proved i ie I I a r re as II rood anon lion lionI as asI I s t I navel and mill t t n ut ht t time wu was not large I i i well ell drilled t j i d f and n J from mm her with r 1 by ass an Indemnity of l I I r f uto lils she devoted about 11 1 c X and aAd more U f L Il the th na nary Thus Thu she JIlt y r 1 o t to become prepared Pre i f t with her lIer old enemy n J 11 p n tree fj v It IR s probably used fI 4 t 1 Japan had only c hll the which i i t I rr 1 1 y a are ot of age hu has I a II l I Iv at the bottom ot of I t Ii nay and m make H HII II II e beside her deter rJ V e l ot of from fromIn I r In the dw W le the of 1100 toni tone which I w was captured from the j at thu battle baUI of WI tal WI and nd beside her herthe the Puao look small although both buIll ut of them hate the same lame about thir thirteen teen knots knot As a of tact the brunt ot of the fighting at t tb the battle batt of Yalu Talu was euc by iii ata ot of the dace Iau There are now nine In the navy tb the tb the and the having b beau tI built Inca the war r The tor peJo o ft lIa bas baa beta been greatly t n l wd oI bcD complement I Is filled she MII II ill if I he have t torpedo f 1 which t v ar ar built an l bull Ln hr I some om in and others In Frain 1 and aen ny I IIan Many Ian arse ahead ah In Id nn nese when while others other ni III n II I h 11 Ir wy way home In 16 1116 the th JapI J hl n v was fl small Compared to what I Iday I Iday day The In it lit u I yearn tarl would have been n l fl In Ina I Ia a much older In shi hl battling and ship manning Ill hh hn I In that time acquired four flIr n II r ip t I oft oa t nn t rr t class battle batU groC OK I about IO 60 and a 11 rues nt lor f men lOt Inns H end 1 t the tone Coni are rp 1 PJ x act reproductions of Jr the The and 1 the hI AllAh I are about tone end each and andare andare I are the over again aln only im WY VV V J t I TRITONS BRITONS BOM BOMBARDING AIDING I II I I 1 T 1 I C yC y i r rA s y A J hIi h t 7 t i I 4 i k Ii AMu 1 r L 1 I It A t I i r I Ii It i I i iI iI iro I 7 t I I ro I i S e a au I u d tr w a aI I VI proved Thre There are bt beside these thelle t tWo w more battle ship of the type ot of no now helot I bum built In the Hat u ud and OAt oae The list Ht will be delivered to 0 Japan this summer ot it tb the uw new class cruisers cruSell fur four ot of the six Ix are already in 10 Japan and aDd the other will be there soon lOOn They constitute a formidable addition to tb the country naval In fact they are equal to the combined strength tb of 01 the Japan navy In her laer late war They ran range from 8 4 O to 1160 tons ton and andare are a trite larger Irrer than the United states steamer t Brooklyn which I ii tons They are equally good 1004 machines and have aboUt the l same Ie speed The Th Alama at her triads did 2037 knot knoll with natural and SOi 2217 with torl forced d The A ama carries tour four tinch Inch suns the Brooklyn eight although althou against the rooklyn twelve the Japanese cruiser four fourteen teen 1 Inch lUna guns In I the he matter of pro tb the has haa the better beller of It for she he cadre a belt bell of seven nen Inches ot of steel while the Brook Brooke BrookI I lyne belt t is II only three Inches The Japanese cruisers art are protected In their gun IUn positions b by six Inches or of orM I M I steel tHI This gives Ivel them an advantage over the Hunk Rurik leIS tons and net Russia tons whose batteries are re unprotected The Th advantage In speed lie lies with the Japanese The Tbt tone built in England hu has s A speed ot of knots knol and an arma armament nent ment of two to ten twelve eta Ix quick Siren anI and live Ave tur torpedo tubes tubel The built In Philadelphia and the bunt built In San Francisco are the larger larler and dower having a speed t ted of twentythree knots knot Beside Buld these there ere lirt In the Javanese Ja navy ot of the smaller raft craft Ave third class I and nd lit litten ten second cla class gunboats tour four die patch t and a torpedo depot ship There art are several v vessels below the tbt second cia class cruiser rank now ow build Ing but thY they will not b be ready rea for set vice this Bummer ummer H However wever the Jp Jap near navy bavy no now hat has a tonne tonnage ot of be between tween and the Rus Ru Ilan Ians have be only between RII 88 and the Petr V liD un liDIe Ie lea Ruse is should send nd more vessels to the Orient as will doubtless be the cue care The development of oC merchant marine ba has kept pace with that t at of her navy of native ft Japan in ID 1882 had bad a tonnage of only oni now she hall baa between ud and tone tOD largely the result or of subsidies A trus Orl fleet of more than one hundred ships II a now read ready for service Si 81 taking of the Japanese naY navy a Drat Brit leh naval who bo spent pent some ome time un on a war Vessel Nel said I wu was naturally much interested at first In looking around me ant Ina taking stole of ofte tte te Japanese sailor and their She he was 1 In superb lighting trim beau clean and Ind well found in ID every pert and the duty wan un with wIlli thorough IL It Ita was a j to wt b these u ac utin active tin tive el ver determined sailor without bout that the m men ft o of the finest nary In te 1 world would II d them worthy Of the the they have unmeasured ur d contempt not ot UtI un h frYd I he naval and of lapan are Arl a s carefully tr ata u t f any ot of the older 10 t the set art sett t modern war heir 0 owa and military lh oI see re we web equipped le III leill ill Thc Sena young men in n the tI tr the but best war wa r rb I In Ku The Jp anese n II ar arc ready and aDel able d learh cry r rt After fIN her war with China Japan laid lahl j n an extensive program or of artily nn At the of war r hr her army rm on a pea peace cots 00 1 and Jh men wm With army fI alon the th land anti Q wan In retied to H fOO men on a peace Una and between and Ind pen on a war dating So An much nt 11 wa U made mad that at the end rat M tIN hu here were men with tb the color 41 students In the tl The Aral uler Or and the nd Atto At to 11 war r tooting the army ii I ant antI antles les I than men IMn ot of all arms arm and 4 perhaps more mono monola moreIn la In tIN 15 th the Japan army of III six not hot Including the I IP Ian P iI al aua guard and d the Yeso militia Of all au these at that dm excepting I at X K In KI KIa were ea U or Ctr facing from troIa us mm I tiara b born tl T division has ha been fort r In the Ilok Hok Hokkaido kaido and lId five v mo more I IJ u r places all allon allon on the cuss COal of the ta nf Japan III dl r reedy eU In front of CorM Corse o od Siberia Thus hu has Japan put IUt a loot look on In h r hack huk door Her Ocean OreaD I inland Sea SIa ap p ar are so 10 f that en an invasion from that stir 01 would fluid bs be exceedingly If t r 1 t t nunn the war with her weakest Vw t qu pu l wee Willi Rt at Tu l Sea behind Osaka held as Kilt t wh where r hOI her hOIn n are n No Nov I is straggly Iy lIIL d I and lay by army n th the Peet l rand and east elt and has baa tin All Japan ba has 1 a I p t U i that of 0 Amt 1 In J 1 v r ah h hI is I not Mt very ery mu much b 1 a tit th 01 t surer of at the small f kin ru II f th Ih N or i I n 11 is I th n the Ih Per hr naval and mihi t ta II nI a ed 1 her all au i has i n 1 the o n no nII II h ra that she Ibl hu his h tJ n able ahle to III pul tl r The manage of h r ur baa tI bM bees In the hande of oft t d ie TR IA lI of b 11 11 tr ID ea lIt ely by tr Fr m it l 1 In the dw nal d j jS S yen M hi ISH lust jut her r th outbreak reak of the Ibl t war It h hI I to yn en and th n II nits a II a surplus of about In Ih ur which was ate used to grind Cund nd at vantage at the of horns of were wrt raised tilt tile the h hIan lien Ian of Japans national debt dbl now at about with annual charges charlS ot of cents per head of population She has hasa a war reserve of 2 and nel the London Lon London don loan 1011 of In II available There is II also alan an unexpended amount 1 apportioned a to arm army and aad navy apan Ion alon that could tiler I he bo used und as well as the budget for next lext Year about lIa The national nn finances of Japan are thoroughly lOun sound When the Chinese borrowed money In England security 11 was offered All As security for her ber lions Uon Japan steadily refused to pledge anything but th the national credit The government hall hae been very punctilious I in the discharge of all Its obligations In IUS 1111 the tax lax 01 sake lake way since then it provides fOGO which defrays tile the rr annual nn expense of the H army and nary and anel It le II expected that the Ibl returns from lb sake ke tax will In with that or of th these two IWO branches of mill mIU Lary service At no late lite date Japan will be forced to take Into con the question qulon or of population In the census of the returned n a little more mol than million souls It has since increased eleven fir or per cent Not more then thAn fourteen fourtHa percent per cent of Japan I is under and It I a put ut to It to fc f d 1 tour four hundred sand land new mouths yearly ot more than Japanese live out of the ev even including the soldiers In una Japan lass baI hither hitherto to managed tu to raise her ber own bread and d eVEn tx exports worth or of rice IV every Scar 1 r but In 1007 she hf had to tn Import tOOf tn II the value of To offset ff 1 this ahe tle a I oriD oring to and develop her nascent manuta tree It is II that confront her herin in her fr existence She lIMo has haa been forced to hIml h me n a power and has hal r responded poo td to the th with a virility that is I amazing She he mud colonial sooner or later and on the tact hangs han the tate tale or of or u and perhaps of at China She b must also h I Ill her defense I tilt the and un Rue Ru Run n This Is never out nut of her ber mind Inthe In the Japanese primary the teach err n made mad a print of their charges burl to grow ro up t to h 1 strong I to chastise In fa Cores ur the of Japan h hit increased rapidly II Th Japans art everywhere In evidence lb She has II Doe session df ct the and I tot work on soother alloth Japanese ce in tb the Mai w will be three in long n and el cot t Mill tan tary telegraph will b bo nl m oyed on It The t I graph ra le II already In the hands of the Ih Japanese Th ur I Is and the they are re 11 a mint Th The t cr r the milks is tn in their hands also Ter art an now about Japan ne Inv Ing In CoM CoMen tore When en one Me ales t the swarms of u uin In J Japan aD and th the th ret ral the question of f the future of the inland l In point ut ot bone Isla t Iud su h magnitude that It will mill lake the beet lIt in n of the beet h ad In tIle to solve k It the ta oth will harel hardy be i I 0 effect the Ut growing congestion In an The There I no quo lion as I to th character of this class cl or of but ut the tt land Inel landIng I Ing of peat numbers If et them doubtless be u in ID th the ca of The Th estimated Japanese In InI I Hawaii Is II tIkI in Cores Corea in fa the tbt I sod in fa UM the I p egsa and Ani there ar are t 1 |
