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Show THE NATIONS SHOULD INTERPOSE. 1 A writer in Japan tells how, when the assault 1 upon Chln-lien-Cheng was about to be made, the jj Japanese soldiers, without any previous talk, to Che last man changed their shirts and dusted their clothes, In order not to leave behind them unseem- i ly corpses If killed. And the writer adds that this tea-drinking, flower-loving race, "at the sound of ' the bugle, transforms itself into one vast camp, i where every person, male or female, is ready to " sacrifice everything, even life itself, for the furtherance of the common cause." The Japanese make a new picture to mankind There are brave and patriotic men and women in all lands; Japan has a patriotism so all-commending that all her sons grow joyous as the battle upon them becomes desperate. The highest as piration of the brave of other lands, Is to fight for their country, with the Japanese they hold it a pleasure to die for native land. Russia In sists that she was taken unprepared at the outbreak out-break of the present war, that her prestige has been wounded; that nothing can satisfy her until Japan is conquered. To do that she will have to kill at least a million of Japanese and to do that she will have to sacrifice at least two millions of her own people Will the outside nations permit that?. They certainly ought not to. The danger . to every one of them is too greats for while as Kyeb Japan has made her own fight, should the Hwar become, sore, upon her Bhe will fire all the Chinese empire. If the mm of China do not take Sup arms they will supply Japan with food and Klo the heavy work of the army, leaving every mapanese soldiers tree to light When that time ftomes Russia will insist upon her right to Invade Mphlna, and then the trouble will come. If In the wtiext few weeks Port Arthur is captured, the war Hhould stop. To gratify a national pride Russia Hbhould not be permitted to drive her peasants by Biundreds of thousands into the shambles of war; Bhe should not be permitted to endanger the HKvorld's peace. B The truth has been demonstrated that the Hbly way to subdue the armies of Japan is to kill Hpiem, and that is too vast an undertaking for Bven Russia to try with her single line of poor HR-oad and with armies fighting five thousand miles Krom their base. The world is too old. Some Bpther means than murder should be tried to settle BlussIa's war with the Japanese. |