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Show T JAPAN'S IRISH-CANADIAN SCOUT. The chief scout in the Mikado's army in Manchuria Man-churia is a Canadian. Lieutenant Thomas Casey Callaghan, who won his military title in the Boer war. Previous to that time he had roughed it on northwestern ranches, becoming an expert horseman, horse-man, rifle shot and hunter of big game. On one occasion in South Africa he was shot through the body and was given up. foil, dead. At the outbreak of hostilities between Japan and Russia he enlisted as a scout, in the intelligence department of the Japanese army, where he rose rapidly in his difficult diffi-cult and dangerous work, until he is now a commander-in-chief of a. regiment of 200 scouts, the flower of the Japanese intelligence department. Lieutenant Callaghan has with him always maps I of the theatre of war and. an interpreter to convey his orders to the regiment. |