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Show I SENDING JAPS TO THE FIGHTING ZONE. Japan continues to entertain ihe proposal made hy Great Britain that 200,000 of her best troops be trans ported to the European theatre of war. Were the Mikado's soldiers to attempt at-tempt to move westward over the Siberian railroad, they would have to be transported 800 milo6 across the sea of Japan to Viadhostok and then t, 00 miles by a single track road to the Kubslan fighting lines. They might be sent to Egypt to keep back the Turks, or transported across the Pacific, through the Pan ama canal to France, which would' require at least five weeks and the services of not less than 100 trans porta The Japanese are excellent fighters fight-ers and a force of 200,000 of them thrown into Belgium would do much to break down the German defensive. Many of the Japanese tactics In! the Russo-Japanese conflict are quoted quot-ed in the military text books. One in particular is a model Infantry attack at-tack in the Napoleonic manner made by 'he Okasaki brigade on Terayama bill at the battle of Shaho. The troops wert arrayed in Bchetnatlc allnck forma: for-ma: ion of four lines, the first two In Blngle rank, the third in line and , fourth In company columns Covered ! by a powerful converging shrapnel I fire, the brigade covered the Urst 900 :irds of open plain without firing a I shot Then It disappeared from night : among the houses of a village. Forty ' minutes passed, and Okasaki s men, in irregular groups, some widely intended in-tended and ;ome practically in close order, rushed forward at full speed over 600 yards of open ground and s:ormrd Terayama hall with the bayonet bay-onet ' Prior to the present war, attacks of that kind were rare, but. if our reports re-ports are reliable, there have been Okasaki attacks almost every day during the struggle. |
