Eureka Reporter | 1905-06-09 | Page 4 | "Jap" Soldiers Live Simply

jap soldiers live simply foreign attaches with kuropis army suffered a good deal because of the food supplied them by the jap anese government A correspondent writes I 1 shall never forget the con tempt shown by a certain japanese of fleer for a meal I 1 was eating we had just entered aftung and I 1 had lashed myself in the courtyard of a temple I 1 made ready the first good meal I 1 had had foursome for some days my number one boy baked some bread in a frying pan we opened a tin of meat and aln of butter then we made some tea and sugar less and we were happy A japanese officer a friend of my own looked in on me and I 1 invited him to share my meal how can ou take all that brou trou over foode he asked aonder ingy come and look at my meal he took me to a room nearby and showed me the dish of rice the portion of cea weed and the little 1 ettle of boiling water for tea which his servant had prepared he did not understand that what rice was to him bread was to me avoidance of luxury Is a po nt of honor among these fighters all know the story about gen nogi tu same writer continues who when during the china war he was present ed with a costly cloak sold it for the benefit of the sick declaring that he had one cloak already and there were soldiers without any an officer bould consider himself disgraced it he took into the field elaborate food or overabundant clothing japanese soldiers are the cleanest living and the most sober of any I 1 have known they have no camp fol lowers they take very little drink their diet is simplicity itself their one luxury Is the incessant smoking of cheap cigarettes