Eureka Reporter | 1905-05-26 | Page 6 | Why Oyama is Commander

why oyama Is commander I 1 understand said an american Amb rican friend of mine the other day that the brain of oyama s camp Is general kodama and the commanders of the different army corps why was odama placed at the head of them field marshal oyama Is placed at the head of the manchurian army of nippon because 1 there Is no one who could more fittingly depre sent the supreme commander of the nippon army and navy his majesty the emperor than does marquis oya ma 2 because he Is the abraham the patriarch among the soldiers of nippon and because he Is the heroic tradition of the satsuma samurai in a genial and living personality 3 be accuse to him all the chief commanders inder him are as children of his own rearing because to him are known all the strength and foibles of all his nen n en because among the living men fit to take the field there Is none who can act as the master prompter with quite as much grace great good hu and intimate knowledge as does oyama because with the field mar lal at the head of the manchurian army the sad picture of the house dl vided against itself Is an impossible spectacle 4 because of the corn mander of the nippon army in this avar is expected a great thing noth ing less than the salvation of nippon and the ultimate and permanent peace of the tar east and it was necessary that he be a man of broad horizon a man who understands nice distinctions in the on of things a man with a gift of modifying the eions of his officers to advantage with out rejecting them outright 5 be cuse the field marshal Is a singular man in that his calmness and temper seems to increase with the increase of difficulties and the sunshine of his good humor to brighten as the storm of reverses frowns more darkly all about him from oyama the victor of mukden by adachi kinnosuke in the american monthly review of re views