. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. or bad Jew, may be vouchsafed to anation according to its deserts. But the great Generalis no mere label of an event; he makes history. Sofar he has not appeared on the Manchurian may be dazzled by the brilliance of Kurokisachievement, but soldiers must be more critical. OnApril 25th the Japanese stood, and knew they stood, inoverwhelming force, only separated by two rivers fromtheir enemy. Nothing, however, would induce them tomake the plunge until they had completed their mostminute preparations. Let the Germans ad


. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. or bad Jew, may be vouchsafed to anation according to its deserts. But the great Generalis no mere label of an event; he makes history. Sofar he has not appeared on the Manchurian may be dazzled by the brilliance of Kurokisachievement, but soldiers must be more critical. OnApril 25th the Japanese stood, and knew they stood, inoverwhelming force, only separated by two rivers fromtheir enemy. Nothing, however, would induce them tomake the plunge until they had completed their mostminute preparations. Let the Germans admire this ifthey will; it is not the principle by which Marlborough,Napoleon, or Lee won their reputations. On the daythey meet a first-class General this passion for makingall things absolutely safe may be the ruin of ourcareful little friends. # # # # # I have had an unexpected windfall in the shape of aconversation with Lieutenant-Colonel Kurita, who gaveme an account of an attempt the Russian cavalry hadmade to cut the lines of communications in London Edwaurd Arnold . ii to<»•? itI I I? n Tenkyo


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