Indianapolis Journal, Volume 54, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 March 1904 — Page 2

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JAPANESE REPLY TO THE

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Say the Charges as to Certain Acts in Korea Are Unwarranted and False. I FORMAL OFFICIAL DENIAL WASHINGTON. March S.-Tho Japanese minister is authorized by his gov rnment to give to tho I'D'ss the following statement received on the 4tii Instant: "The imprrial Japanese government are given to understand that the Russian government hi.vt recently a Jdn ssed a note to the power in which the government of Japan are charged with having committed certain acts In Korea whfeh are considered by Russia to be in violation of international law. and all future orders and declarations by the Korean government arc declared on that account to be invalid. The imperial government do not find it neceasary in the present Instance to concern themselves in any way with the views, opinions or declarations of the imperial Russian government, but tht-y believe it to be their right and duty to correct misstatements of fact whirh, if permitted to remain uncontradicted, might give ri.-. to incorrect inferences and conclusion on the part of neutral powers. Accordingly, the government of Japan make the following statement iepecting the rive acts which in the note referred t- are ueciared to be fully proved and confirmed: 'First It is charged under this heading that, 'before the opening of hostilities against Russia. Japan landed troops in the independent empire of K.rea. which had declared its neutrality.' The Imperial government admit that Japanese troops landed in Korea ! declaration of war was issued, but nt before a state of war actually existed between Japan and Russia. The maintenance of the independence and territorial integrity of Korea is one of the objects of the war, and the dispatch of troops to the menaced territory was a matter of right and necessity which had the distinct consent of the Korean government. The Imperial government draw a sharp distinction between the landing of Japanese troops in Korea under the actual circumstances of the case and the sending of a large body of Russian troops to Manchuria without the consent of China, as was done by Russia, while peaceful negotiations were atill in progress. "Second Under this heading it is alleged that Japan 'with a division of the Japanese fleet made a sudden attack on the 8th instant, that is three days before the declaration of war, 6n two Russian warships which were in the neutral port of Chemulpo and whose commanders had not been notified of the rupture of relations, as the Japanese maliciously stopped the delivery of Russian telegrams by the Danish cable and destroyed the Korean government's telegraphic communication.' The Imperial government declare that the allegations under this heading are untrue. The imperial government did not stop the delivery of Russian telegrams by the Danish cable, neither did they destroy the Korean government's telegraphic communication. Regarding the alleged sudden attack on the 8th of February on two Russian men-of-war ia the port of Chemulpo it is only necessary to say that a state of war existed and that Korea, having: given her consent to the landing of Japanese troops at Chemulpo, the harbor of Chemulpo thereby ceased to be neutral, at least between the belligerents. Third It is charted under this heading that 'in spite of existing- international laws, shortly belore the beginning of hostilities Japanese captured as prizes of war the Russian merchantment which were In the neutral ports of Korea.' The imperial government have established a prize court with full authority to pronounce fully on the question of the legality of the seizure of merchant vessels. Accordingly, it would be manifestly out of place for the imperial government to make any statement regarding the assertion under this heading. ' Fourth It is asserted under this number that Japan 'declared to the Emperor of Korea, through the Japanese minister at Seoul, that Korea would be henceforth under Japanese administration, and warned his . Majesty that In the case of noncompliance Japanese troops would occupy tho palace.' The imperial government declares the charge under this number to be absolutely and wholly without foundation in fact. "Fifth Under this heading it is charged that the Japanese government 'forwarded a summons, through the French minister, to the Russian representative at the court of the Emperor of Korea to leave the country with the staff of the Russian legation and consulate.' The imperial government denies the accuracy of this statement. No demand either direct or Indirect was addressed by the Japanese government asking the Russian minister to retire from Korea. "The French charge d'affaires called on the Japanese minister at Seoul and informed him verbally, as he did afterwards in writing, that it was the desire of the Russian minister to leave Korea, and asked the opinion of tho Japanese minister with reference to the matter. The Japanese minister replied that if the Russian minister would withdraw in a peaceful manner, taking with him his staff and legation guard, he would be protected fully by Japanese troops. He did so withdraw of his own free will on the 12th of February and an escort of Japanese soldiers was furnished him as far as Chemulpo. In this connection it may be remarked that the Russian consul at Fusan remained at his post as late as Feb. 28.

Rumor of Decisive Engagement in the Far Sea of Japan

(CONCLUDED FROM FI RST PAGE.) Vostok toward 11 o'clock in the morning, having passed near Askold Island. After several maneuvers, which involved changes In the squadron's order of battle, two cruisers were left to the north of the island and the remaining vessels of the squadron teamed along the coast of Ussuri bay, parallel to the shore, keeping about fifteen versts (approximately ten miles) therefrom. Upon arriving off Mount St. Joseph and the Ussuri bay battery, the squadron, preserving the ame order, made toward the batt- ry. Tk .-: ned fire from both sides, evidently lirst using blank cartridges in order to warm their guns. "At 1:35 p. m.. when at a (jistanco of eight versts (approximately five and onefourth miles) from the shore, the leading ship opened fire with her forward guns and then the entire squadron steamed along the shore firing their port guns as they went. The enemy did not fire while turning. After the third turn the squadron, at -:25 p. m.. ceased firing' and steamed off to the southward, about ten miles to the right of Askold island, finally disappearing At 5:30 p. m. In all, the enemy fired about 2U0 shells with no effect. No damage was done to the fortress or the intrenchments and in the town and at other parts of the fortifications the damage was1 insignificant. The garrison is in excellent spirits and the op rati- as r preparing the batteries for action w re carried out In perfect order. "According to reports of the events of March 7, the enemy's squacron reappeared at 8 o'clock in the morning near Vladivostock. They entered Ussuri bay and proceeded along the coast without opening fir he squadron then returned and h- ad d for Cape Oamova, d'ossi.t bay). Which it reached at 3:40 p. m. The enemy finally turned off when opposite the Pallas hay and departed in a southerly direction." RUSSIANS GUARDING MOVEMENTS OF FLEET ST. PF.TERFBl'R. March 8. The whereabouta of Captain Reitxenstein's Vladivostok squadron is carefully guarded by the military authorities, but there is a strong impression here that when the vn. Japanese warahipt appeared off the harbor Sunday and yesterday the Russian aquadren was outside, perhaps down the coast, co-operating with the Russian land force n.-ar the mouth of the Tuman river. If he Russians were out ;ide and the Japanese defiuitely ascertained that fact a

JAPANS RIGID RULES

SHE Fourteen Articles for W riters Who Follow the Annv and Seven for the Xavy. CENSORSHIP . IS STRICT Correspondence of the A?soclated Press. SHANGHAI, Feb. 17. The rigid censorship placed by the Japanese authorities on all telegraphic dispatch:, both prss and private, has caused many of the foreign pondenta to seek a field of news on I piain land. Correspondents who have r toned here from -Tokio report that the -orship is moie perfect than' they have vor encountered and Is exercised on intereommunieatlon as well as on foreign matt r. Traffic on the wires has trebled and th. r original carrying capacity has been reduced because the War Department and the Foreign Office have each taken one of th-- main trunk lines that run south through the empire. The regulations for the government of th foreign newspaper correspondents have be. n promulgated and are ironclad. One article provides that if a war correspondent violates the criminal law. military criminal law, or law for the preservation of military secrets, he may be punished according to military law by court-martial. The regulations in full follow. "Article 1 A newspaper correspondent who desires to accompany the army shall make application to the War Office, lnlosing a statement of his personal history and the credentials furnished him by the proprietors of his paper. Foreigners shall make application through their respective 1 gations or consulates to the Foreign l ffice, to be forwarded to the War Department. In the case of the foregoing paragraph, i. e., of foreigners, the applicant may write only the name of the newspaper by which he has btn dispatched in his application, omitting the statement of bis personal history and his credentials. Art. 2 An applicant must be a person who has been engaged in the newspaper business for not less than one year. "Art. 2 A foreigner who -does not understand Japanese may be accompanied to the field by one Interpreter. In such case the interpreter shall be employed by the correspondent on his own responsibility, and with the application mentioned in Article 1 shall be inclosed the testimonials of th interpreter. "Art. 4 A foreigner may. when necessary, be accompanied by one servant besides the Interpreter. In that ease he shall follow the provisions of Article Z. "Art. 5 If necessary a number of correspondents may be caused to chdoae one who shall follow the army as their representative. "Art. 6 When permission to accompany the army is granted a certificate of permission shall he given the applicant. "Art. 7 War correspondents shall be assigned to the higher-command officers' headquarters. Art. S War correspondents shall always wear European clothing, and shall attach to the left arm a strip of white cloth two ir, hes wide with the name of the paper he represents written in red Japanese characters. "Art. ft A war correspondent shall always carry hid a certificate and shall show it at once when requested by military officers or officials in war offic. a "Art. 10 A war correspondent shall obey all orders of the military headquarters and he subject to all regulations issued by them. If a correspondent violates the said orders or regulations the commanding officer may refuse to allow him to accompany the troops. "Art. 11 All communications, correspondence, private letters or telegrams of correspondent, shall not be sent until after they have been examined by officers appointed by the commanding officers for that purpose. No cipher or code shall be used in such communications. "Art. 12 Suitable treatment and every convenience, so far as circumstances will permit, shall be accorded to correspondents on the field. When practically necessary the authorities may supply him with food. Upon application transportation may be provided by carts or boats. "Art. 13 If a war correspondent violates the criminal law. criminal military law, or law for the preservation of military secrets he may be punished according to military law by court-martial. "Art. 14 Articles 6 and 13 shall apply correspondingly to interpreters and servants." The regulations governing naval war correspondents follow: "Article 1 A newspaoer war correspondent desirous to accompany the navy shall make applications to the naval staff, Imperial headquarters, for permission. "Art. 2 A newspaper war correspondent shall obey all orders of the commanding officer of the fleet which he accompanies. Art. I No communications concerning war shall be sent until they have been examined by officers nominated for the purpose by the commanding officer of the fleet which he accompanies. "Art. 4 The commanding officer of the fleet may cancel the permission granted to a newspaper war correspondent. "Art. 6 Necessary regulations concerning the treatment of a newspaper war correspondent shall be fixed by the commanding officer of the fleet. "Art. 6 A newspaper war correspondent shall wear European dress and put on a low, round-shaped cap with a vizer, and attach on his left arm a strip (one sun wide) of white woolen cloth, with the characters 'Paper Correspondent' on it. "Art. 7 A newspaper correspondent shall always carry his permit, mentioned in Article 1, with him, and shall show it when asked by army and navy authorities." big sea fight is probably imminent, as it is considered certain that the Japanese in that case will lie off Vladivostok to prevent the return ol the Russians, giving battle if they are caught in the open sea. All the harbors along the coast la which the Russians might sek refuge are frozen, and the squadron must eventually be forced to reiurn to Vladivostok for coal. Although the Japanese squadron is superior in numbers and guns, consisting of a battleship and four armored cruisers, two of Which are believed to be Idsumo and Yakumo. and two unarmored cruisers, the four armored cruisers under Captain Reitzenstein. the Rossia. Uromboi. Rudik and liogatyr, are among the finest vessels in the Russian navy, constituting as sisttr ships a homeogenious fighting unit, and experts here are not certain that they could not take the measure of Rear Admiral Triu's ships. A naval service organ here argues lengthily that the present Japanese naval disposition presages a movement on a large scale in the Sea of Japan, and the paper accounts for all the Japanese ships except the battleship Yashima and the armored cruiser Tokiowa, one first-class protected cruiser and five second-class, reckoning the battleships Fuji and Shikishima. the armored cruisers Iawate and Asama and the protected cruiser Takashiho as being injured. One reason for the appearance of the Japanese in northern waters advanced here is their probable desire to regain pos- .... -s..n of the island f Sakhalien. which was ceded to Russia by Japan. It is pointed out that the whole of northern Japan will be threatened with famine If the food supply derived from the island of Sakhalien fisheries is cut off. Nine-tenths of the exports go to Japan, in addition to which Japanese boats have been carrying on piratical fishing along the coast, which has exhausted the fish supply of the Amur estuary. The native tribes there are suffering from hunger and typhus. The Russian government will prepare a gunboat flotilla on the Amur to provide for the protection of the fisheries as soon as the river is free from ice. FOOD PRICES HIGH AT VLADIVOSTOK VLADIVOSTOK, March 8 The military commandant here has ordered all foreigners to have their passports vised by the local government and commercial agents of their respective countries. Most of the residents of Vladivostok are sending their families into the Interior. The girls' school and boys' gymnasium will also be transferred into the interior. The prices of foodstuffs are becoming exorbitant. Despite the appearance of the Japanese Bert off the harbor yesterday. a,nd the bombardment Sunday. the inhabitants of Vladivostok are in good spirits. Crowds promena le the streets an usual, including many women. A performance at the theater is announced tor to-night. Many suspected Japanese have been ex-

SPO DENTS

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The Hour of the Pink Ticket in Japan By FREDERICK PALMER Mr. Palmer Is Collier's special' war correspondent in the far East, and his lotters are printed in the Indianapolis Journal by special arrangement

Copyright, 1904. by Collier's Weekly TOKIO, Feb. 6. Rumors instead of hours have marked the passage of the days of waiting. You tightened the mainspring for a new lot when you wound your watch at night. This afternoon came a rumor unlike the others, definite In shape, electric in transmission from lip to lip. having the magnetic force of truth: "Komura has sent for De Rosen. It has come." Though the words came from your servant, you believed them as you will believe an earthquake shock that you feel. To-night the whole nation knows that negotiations are at an end and bloodshed is about to begin. The years of expectancy have culminated in the decisive step. The patient government has at last given the word. Where are the crowds? Why is there no cheering? Doubtless more people are watching the bulletins in London and New York than here. "Think of Piccadilly or Broadway on such a night," says the foreigner. In Japan there is little to see, little to hear. There is everything to feel. Two theories which you at home may have from this description, you would never have here. There is no apathy; there is no doubt or fear. Instead of going abroad to gather in public plaaas to talk and shout, the Japanese go to the houses of their friends and sit over their little hibachis (charcoal burners) and talk little very little. They know that there will be war, and that is enough. It is the war they have prayed lor almost a holy war. Throughout the land to-day and yesterday a shower of pink tickets has fallen. Fach one called a man out of a kimono into a tunic, out of getas into military shoes. It said, according to Japanese logic: "The Mikado has given you life; now he calls upon you to give it back." There is no weeping at the farewell. I saw a reservist parting .with his family at the railroad station to-night. He came in with his little boy, olive skinned, round i M d, smiling a live Japanese doll of three years thrown over his shoulders. The women folk formed the inner circle, the men the outer circle. In the center Of such a group, the soldier in his Occidental uniform seemed to belong to a world apart. Then' was no weeping; for years they had expected him to go. and now he was going. He smiled, and they smiled at the partinga variation of that Japanese smile which says: "We are sad and try to show that we are uot by being merry." Yesterday there were no signs of preparation; . to-day there have been signs everywhere for those who would see them. On the parade ground, and in other public places, officers with little notebooks, hundreds of coolies and loads of timber suddenly appeared. They settled down to their tasks as if it were the routine of every day. There was little shouting, no seeming hurry, no oaths snatching order out of confusion. The order was in the officers' hotebook. in lines of ideographs running up and down the pages. With tho rapidity of circus tents rose long lines of sheds for the cavalry which is to be mobilized here. There was not even the hammering which is the nass ot the hackneyed aminod, but when examined they were proved to be Chinamen or Koreans. Commanders of merchant vessels and pilots who have a thorough knowledge of the coast and of navigation have been enrolled as ensigns in the navy. Snow has been falling for the last two days. JAPAN MAY SEEK LOAN IN AMERICA OR EUROPE TOKIO, March 8. The Japanese government, it is said, is considering the advisability of seeking to secure immediately a loan in America and Europe. Although it is estimated that enough bonds can be sold at home to provide sufficient money to prosecute the war for at least one year and a half, and although many Japanese statesmen and financiers believe that Japan is capable of waging war to a conclusion without borrowing a single cent abroad, and have, in a spirit of national pride, counseled that no foreign loan be sought, yet it is felt that there may arise in a year or two a contingency wien money may be seriously needed. It Is thought that it would be better to place a loan now If possible rather than attempt to do so In a future crisis when money may be badly needed. RUSSIAN GUNBOAT IS TO BE DISMANTLED NEW YORK. March S. M. Lcssar, the Russian minister at Peking, has telegraphed the Russian consul here sanctioning the dismantlement of the Mandjur, cables the Shanghai correspondent of the American. Her breech blocks and munitions will be placed in the custody of the customs and the crew will be released on parole. The Japanese cruiser Akitsushima will leave Shanghai Hnfnofllltsl alter this is done. MARQUIS ITO TO VISIT THE KOREAN EMPEROR TOKIO. March S. The forthcoming visit of Marquis Ito as a special ambassador from the Emperor of Japan to the Emperor of Korea claims general attention. It was originally planned to send a prominent Japanese to Seoul as a permanent resident adviser to the Korean government and various names were suggested. The announcement that Ito is going is a surprise. In official circles It is insisted 'hat the object of Marquis Ito's visit to Korea is not politically important. Makaroff Welcomed to Port Arthur. PORT ARTIU'R, March ?. Vice Admiral Makaroff, who will take command of the Russian Pacific fleet, arrived here to-day and hoisted his flag on the cruiser Askold. His arrival has aroused great expectations among the Russian sailors, and he was green a triumphant reception by the people.

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with his employers. "din of preparation." The girders and the i supports were bound together by the deft wrapping of straw ropes. Every board and every stick seemed to have its place, and the officers to know just where the place was. At the same moment that the coolie ants began their work, officers went from house t6 house to provide for the billeting soldiers, and more lines of ideographs were made in notebooks. In a few hours the soldiers dropping their peace tasks wherever the pink tickets found them began to arrive and settled down in their quarters, quiet, welcome guests of quiet hosts. The hosts and their guests stayed Indoors waiting, man, woman and child, on the wishes of the Mikado's warriors. Why go out and cheer when you might sit over the hibachi and smile with the heroes-to-be, who, augustly condescending, have deigned to honor a poor domicile with their presence? At the Russian legation the gates are closed. No Japanese stops in passing. The native attendants in the little lodges on either side of the massive grill-work with lis gold-crowned double-headed eagle, press their faces to the windows querulously. The thin columns of smoke rising from the chimneys form the only other sign of life. Within the silent structure are the sole beings in all Japan who wish for Russian success. Baron De Rosen and the attaches, awaiting their departure, might well wish for a crowd and some signs of demonstration to break the sinister quiet. "War has come!" the foreigner may say to a Japanese. "Yes." with a smile as if to imply. "Will you augustly condescend to excuse the war for coming?" "And Japan is going to fight hard and win victories?" "Yes." with the same smiie, quizzical and meaning meaning one knows not what to Russia and Japan. The click of the Getas on the stones seems Itself to be in a minor key, so few people are abroad; the jinrikisha men, huddled in their blankets at their waiting stands, knock the ashes out of their tiny pipes and start homeward. The little shops close no earlier, remain open no later. Their workers are busy with their tasks rather than with discussing war. Yet they welcome the news, and they would give their all for the cause. Ry midnight you look the length of the streets without seeing the flight of one of the vaii-coiored lanterns which the runners hold on the thills of the little man-carriages. Tokio is going to bed at the usual hour. Hut what thoughts may be passing behind the paper windows with their checkered latticework, through which the lights are no longer shining, is as far from our knowledge as what is passing in the office of the general staff. "Scared, aren't they?" asked a foreigner who arrived in Japan to-day for the first time. "Why don't they feet out their bands?" "Study the Japanese smile," residents warned him. "But this little people in their paper houses, against the big Russians! Haven't thev awakened to what they have undertaken, and aren't they worried? Why. they are beaten at the start by their own showing!" "Study the Japanese smile," again the p sidents warned him. In other lands the withdrawal of ministers means the playing of fortissimo passages with the brasses. On another historical night, thirty-odd years ago. the Paris crowd was crying. "On to Berlin!" In Japan it is pianissimo with the violin, which means more than the brasses. There is no shouting of "On to Manchuria!" yet. The hush of the long-expected come true, the issue narrowed to the extremity as the one objective, the plain realization of this day, He has already inspected Port Dalny and Ta lien wan. Four merchantmen have been brought into Port Dalny. TURKUY'S PRICE TOO HIGH FOR RUSSIA BERLIN, March 8.-Tho Porte has thus far met the request of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, ML Zienueff, to permit the Black sea fleet to pass the Dardanelles by naming eotvJltions wholly unacceptable by Russia. These conditions are, naturally, that Russia shall break off or evade the fulfillment of her agreements with Austria respecting the Balkans, give the Btlltan leave to settle the controversy by his own methods and assist Turkey should Austria or other powers dispute the Sultan's decision. Russia rejected these propositions as preposterous, but she renewed her request, to which there soems little likelihood of the Sultan yielding, as British diplomacy la active at Constantinople in urging on tho Porte a strfet observance of the Berlin treaty. WILL RETURN TO THE BALTIC VERY SOON PARIS, March 0. Telegraphing from St. Petersburg a correspondent of the Kcho de Paris says that, contrary to the statements cabled from Port Said, the Russian squadron under command of Admiral Wirnius will return to Li bau, on the Baltic, in a few weeks, leaving only one cruiser and several torpedo boats in the Mediterranean. "I am informed from a trustworthy source." the correspondent says also, "that Peroral regiments of Cossacks are going to Manchuria from the Caucasus." JAPANESE SOLDIERS LANDING AT IVON-SAN PARIS, March S. The Temps this afternoon prints a dispatch from St. Petersburg which says: The landing of Japanese troops continues near Won-San. KoreaMost of the forces are proceeding to PingYang. It is the expectation that the Japanese will take the offensive as soon as they have concentrated their troops. The Russian tactics will be strictly defensive for some time. The Amur and other streams will be used, so soon as they are free of ice, for carrying military supplies. urses Sail for Japan. SEATTLE, Wash.. March 8. Forty American nuraes In charge of Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, president of the SpanishAmerican War Nurses' Association, sailed from here to-day on the Iyo Maru for Japan. Upon arrival they expect to be a. -signed to duty with one of the divisions of the Japanese army. TO t I RE A OLD ONE D fcf Take laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to curevl E. . Gro v s signature is on each box. 25c

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imam this hour, being a landmark in history, have outweighed superficial impulse. We who are in Tokio to-day have witnessed a racial phenomenon. Associating the thought of rabble with a noisy mouth, one may feel how by extremes the very jinrikisha coolies have taken on an air of senatorial dignity. The man new to Japan only wonders, or thinks he is not getting what is advertised; others realize that their study of the Japanese smile has only begun. INTERVIEW WITH FIELD MARSHAL YAM AG AT A TOKIO. Feb. 7. This morning, after Tokio had slept one night on the fact of actual war, it was my good fortune to have an hour's talk with Field Marshal Marquis Yamagata, the man behind the Cabinet, who, more than any other, is responsible for the step Japan has taken. The appointment with him had first been made for a week ago. When the day set arrived the genro were hastily summoned to one of their urgent sittings, and. in the language of his secretary! his Excellency was "very busy." From the moment when negotiations were broken off and war preparations were openly carried on throughout the land the elder statesmen had a breathing space. Their field work was finished; that of the army was about to begin. One of them, with tine samuri courtesy, signified his leisure by not forgetting the request of a foreigner. The drive to the marquis's house took me ta the furthest suburbs of the city. We passed many small, two-wheeled army carts drawn by ponies, and the still smaller ones drawn by coolies. Splashes of red of the stripes of infantrymen's new caps or trousers showed through crates that were piled high in contrast to the compact little boxes that contained ammunition. The reservists from outlying districts were on their way to town. With each one were his nearest friends. The road became a procession of groups. If your servant is absent in Japan the death, the sickness or the marriage of a "friend" calls him. It Is a land of groups of friends. All the cronies of his age see the recruit into the army, and see the recruit become reservist back into it again. The parting with his Wife or his mother or his sweetheart is usually at the doorstep. If you looked away from the soldiers and the policemen on the beat, at the shops with their sliding screens pushed back, making windows and doors and show windows and showroom into one; at the ideographic signs and the garb of the dally workers, either near by or in the fields, the vista still had everything in common with the Japan of forty years ago, which knew no world but her own. It was strange that on this morning of all mornings I was going to see the man I was. He was grown to manhood under a regime as different from ours as that of the Chinese from the ancient Greeks. As a youth, if he had cut off his queue, he would have been debased from his rank as a gentleman. If he had attempted to leave his native country he would have suffered death, which the Shoguu thought a. lit punishment for a crime against the isolation which was the gospel of the land. His first experience of war was as a feudal swordsman clad in armour, who fought according to the Japanese counterpart of the etiquette of the Knights of the Round Table. Clan warfare, the only kind known, Was then the privilege of the few, like private yachts. A gentleman born (a samurai) alone had the right to bear arms. (Often in these letters I shall refer to that term samurai. I'ntll you know it. and the chivalry, courage, pride and stoicism that it stood for, you can in no wise understand how it is that this suddenly-transformed Oriental people to-day cross the seas to fight on its own ground the Russian Empire.) A farm laborer in those days was as far from the right to bear arms as a longshoreman is from a bishopric. Yet this Yamagata has lived to lead one army, whose soldiers were composed of all classes and armed with modern rifles, in a victoriOUS foreign war; and he may yet take the Held in another and infinitely greater one, when the forty waiting transports (Improvised from steamer?) shall carry an army Of three or four hundred thousand men to Korea and Manchuria. It I had gone to see him forty years ago when I could ned have gone unless I had been a Japanese, and worn a queue and two swords we should have sat on mats with our legs crossed, in houses without windows, doors or chairs. Profound would have been our bows, delicately worded our compliments To-Uay, I drove into a tree-studded yard that was entirely Japanese, surrounding a stone and stucco building which was distinctly Occidental. (The Japanese have found our houses more comfortable, if less artistic, than their own. Their sylvan effects they most wisely retain). I was ushered Into a reception room that might be that of a well-to-do person with distinction of taste at home. Yamagata has in this age the versatility and the classic simplicity of being soldier and statesman in one that we associate with another age. A field marshal by right of his victories in the field; one of the five elder statesmen; the Mikado's counselor in civil as well as in military affairs, and the head of the political coalition responsible for the present Cabinet, he stands for the policy and the administration that brought on the war. He & not of the school of radicalism, but of the old school of Japan: a Tory rather than a Whig. The manners of other days In Japan are reflected in him as the manners of other .lays in America are in an old-time Southerner. It was the Yamagata the country gentleman, the statesman, not Yamagata the soldier, whom I saw; this slight, elderly man in a frock coat, with his bronzed face, his high cheekbones, his rood-humored eyes, and hair turning gray. In his person bringing one nearer to the old Japan, and in his military power to tbe moelern Japan, than any other man. His secretary. Mr. Nakayama, who interpreted for us, is a Harvard graduate. But he Is young and born to this regime; he has about him the air of the Occident. The marquis belongs at once to this regime and to the one before As we sipped our ceremonial tea, he talked of the war which wis only sixteen hours old; the war on which he had staked his reputation: the war which meant to his people more than their political future their future as individuals. He spoke of it as simply and as calmly as If war were an very-day affair. Noting In the shrewd face showed that he had been under continuous strain for weeks. I spoke to him of the two things which made me marvel most. The first was the organization into a united, thoroughly disciplined army of classes which formerly had never associated; of clans that had always been at the sword's point; of the "groups" of friends ever ready to become factions. One might as well have expected to make a Scot a good Englishman within forty years after the border wars, as to make a unit out of the Japanese in 1S5Ö. The army, absorbing all clan rights, seems to-day one

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man and one mind, keeping its secret! as one. How was this brought about? I wanted to hear tho explanation from the BaM marshal who had seen the army rise from the first companies that threw away th ir bows and arrows for riflos. There w..s the Oriental deprecation of self in his answer, which left me knowing little more than before. He seemod a little surprised that the success had been so mnnifVst to foreigners. It had been very difficult and It was still vory difficult, according to :i field marshal's high ideas of discipline, to make Japanese officers and men realize the spirit of military unity as they should. "The spirit of corps that keeps military secrets seems perfect," I suggested. "Not entirely," he said, gently. "Some will talk when they ouglit a A to our newspapers, too, are far from b ing ss ear. -ful as they should be. Rather than aS everything in due time, they want to publish something before any one else. They are not yet enough advanced to be discreet." This morning, the greatest f newspaper mornings, all that appeared was the official statement of the negotiations, with Japan's reasons for breaking them off. There v nothing about the mobilization, cr What troops were here or being moved there, bt -cause the government had given strong hints of what it would and would not permit to be published. The great reason for the rise of a united army lies In the inherent respect of the Japanese for law. for the Mikado, for the nobility, and for the Mikado'e counselors. To my second question, the answer was more enlightening to the foreign r who comes to Japan as the Japanese go abroad, bristling with question marks. "If you will look at the geographical position of Korea you will see that It is like a poniard pointing at the heart of Japan." said the marquis. "If Korea is occupied by a foreign power, the Japan sea ceases to be Japanese, and the Korean straits are no longer in our control. Our public men are of many parties, not of two cnly. as are yours in America. Our Cabinets are the product of coalitions, which, for the time being, seem to his Majecty and the legislat: power best to serve the interests of the country. Foreign policy is a thing entirely apart. In the consideration of Korea and Manchuria, all men of all parties needed only patriotism to realize the singleness of our interests. Whatever Cabinet was in power continued the policy of its predecessor, and the policy of all on a question A Taste of

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