| Show SLAVS PUT UP BEST PRAYERS but the japs still win the battles i i general miles tells a thing or two about russian japanese and american soldiers new york may 13 the russian soldier ja courageous in saying alb prayers before golner into battle aab the same thing may be said ol 01 the soldiers of the sultan but I 1 have found that on the battlefield it Is the fighting and not the praying that wine said gereral nelson A miles tonight in explaining pla ining the success of the japanese soldiers against russia general miles was speaking at a dinner to members of the order ot the founders and patriots of america of which admiral dewey today was elected governor gent eral it has been my privilege said general miles to see most of the armies of the world I 1 have studied carefully the armies of japan and of china and the soldiers of russia and the success in the east today of the soldiers of the mikado is due to their wonderful skill the faithful performance of their duties and their remarkable enterprise of all the armies of the world continued general miles ours seems to differ in that the men are serving for principle our men seem to feel that they are working or a tree people tor a republic in which every man Is a sovereign and the freedom ot mana sovereign our flag represents the sovereignty and the freedom of manhood it la a pleasure as well as an honor to serve under it I 1 know this my forty years experience as a soldier in all that time there never was an hour of the day that it was not a pleasure to mo to byln the admiral dewey eald 1 I do not know as we have any better navy than we bad but we have better tools than we bad a few years ago of course tha newspapers will say we have take my word tor it we have the beat ships and the best officers and the best men in the whole world As to the enlisted men especially att are getting the cream of the world and with such men ready and eager to fight the other nations are going to let us alone and in a few years to come the american people are going to have the best navy in the world not for aggression but to protect our rights |
