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Show JAPAN IS READY HER ARMIES ARE FIT, HER 1 TO STRIKE FOR DEMOCRACY, B y 3 Above Japanese infantry in action firing from trenches (left) and storming an earthworks. Below Japanese cruiser Idzumo, a typical sea fighter. Whenever the word ia givon in Japan that tho hour has struck for the island orientals to take, their full part in tho world war the Japs will bo found fit and nnxious to mnko thoir start at full speed. No dolays for preparation, armament, munitioning muni-tioning will bo necessary. Japan's war strength army numbers num-bers a million and a half nnd there nro more than 8,000,000 unorganized potential soldiers in Nippon. Negotiations with the allies are on to determine what course Japan is to pursue and whether or not her army is to be augmented by American Ameri-can troops, Military operations must bo undertaken un-dertaken In Siberia to guard vast stores of supplies at Vladivostok and along tho trans-Siberian railroad. B The Japs seem the logical forces to 1 make the movo m |