The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v 1-3 (no 1-10), Apr 1904-Sept 1905 . ten thousand soldiers, andthis is quite true with the. Japaneseofficers. So, correspondingly, their lossis the more to be lameivt:ed. Every oneof them has had in the, beginning topass through the established course ofeducation and training, and then beejiappointed an officer. Promotion ac-companies worth and merits only. Oneofficer, whose skill silenced the enemy*sguns during the fight at a certain fort,was Col. Sakai, whose knowledge of various military schools and also attheCollege of Engineering. His work onBal
The Russo-Japanese war fully illustrated : v 1-3 (no 1-10), Apr 1904-Sept 1905 . ten thousand soldiers, andthis is quite true with the. Japaneseofficers. So, correspondingly, their lossis the more to be lameivt:ed. Every oneof them has had in the, beginning topass through the established course ofeducation and training, and then beejiappointed an officer. Promotion ac-companies worth and merits only. Oneofficer, whose skill silenced the enemy*sguns during the fight at a certain fort,was Col. Sakai, whose knowledge of various military schools and also attheCollege of Engineering. His work onBallistics is an indubitable proof of hisscientific knowledge and military abil-ities. In ordinary conversation hewas generally very reserved, but, oncemounted on his platform, his eloquentwords seemed to kiiowno limits, and hegave such clear expositions of the mostcomplicated theories that his lectureroom was always packed with anearnest anxious audience of he was appointed chief of a regi-ment, there was a general fear that hew^ould find some difficulty from the. u U < U OP^ u ai c Q- O O H O C s a, S u (—1 W•u H WAR TIME ANECDOTES. 691 fact that the officers who were to comeunder his direction had been his oldclassmates or old superiors. But tothe general surprise, he managed themlike an old general in a month or so,and alsolutely won their respect andaffection. He was the 4th son of Mr. Taka-gi, a Samurai of Kuwana, and havingearly lost his father was brought upby his mother who is now 73 yearsold. No doubt, this worthy old ladyscharacter influenced her son. Whencondoled with by her friends on hersons death, she remarked that it wasnothing unusual for a Samurai to havefallen on the field ; they said it was agreat honor, but he had simply done w^ho received a serious wound on hishead, and a cut above the right earand was pierced through the neck onthe left side right to the tongue, inthe fierce cavalry encounter at Pu-lang-tien, is now lying in the No. 1. B
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