| Show SECRECY IN WARFARE one ot the lessons most forcibly taught by the japanese war was the value of reticence but tor their entire success in concealing military and naval plans till they were in actual operation the japanese could not have won tho vie lories they did almost for the first time la modern warfare they made secrecy just aa they made medicine and sanitation i weapon ot extraordinary potency nothing in that wonderful conflict seemed to us more wonderful icban the calm an by the japanese navy department part ment of the loss of a first class battleship a year or so after the catastrophe had oc cuned until then not a word of the disaster had been published in the japanese press the facts were provably ably known because rumors of them reached eusope but the rumors were always promptly denied the mystery was never enlightened and it waa not until after the battle of the sea of japan that the russians and tho world at large learned the truth and that la but a instance of a policy that knew no variation from tny first shot ia tha war to the last in what thes rightly regarded as a life and death struggle the Japa neso took no chances least of all did they inn the desperate rish of allowing tbt movements ot their cleota and armies to bo described or commented upon in tho public press whatever the russians learned ot their intentions was gathered without japanese assistance that to be sure was only common but it was common ot a ednd thai has played an incredibly small pan in the warfare of tho past navai and military history la fall of examples where a belligerent has found tn hla press an invaluable though unconscious ally nor arc the examples of bodom rial aven in lao v i pre telegraph days even in the napoleonic pole onic wars information that it was vital to conceal on tho adne side and equally vital to learn on the other became public property in the columns of a patriotic but unthinking and uninformed press with the coming ot the telegraph and the indefinite multiplication 0 journals the chances ot fatal disclosures have of coursey immensely increased in the american civil war in tha franco german war in the spanish american war and in the british boer war such disclosures were of appalling frequency and led at times to terrible and unforeseen catastrophes those wishing to purchase horbes farm implements etc at a bargain wold do well to attend the public QUO tion at the model farm near corenne Corl tuesday nov easy terms |
