Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . r in the war betweenJapan and China, in 1894-5, the Field Marshal told me thatJapans Bureau of Information had misled him at that Bureau had assured him that the Chinese army was strongand eflScient, but that the Chinese navy was weak, but experienceproved that it was just the other way and Chinas navy wasstrong while its army was weak. Had I known these facts,added the Field Marshal, I would have marched on Pekinand taken it, instead of Port Arthur. If Japan had done so there would have been another storyto tell.
Personal reminiscences of James AScrymser, in times of peace and war . r in the war betweenJapan and China, in 1894-5, the Field Marshal told me thatJapans Bureau of Information had misled him at that Bureau had assured him that the Chinese army was strongand eflScient, but that the Chinese navy was weak, but experienceproved that it was just the other way and Chinas navy wasstrong while its army was weak. Had I known these facts,added the Field Marshal, I would have marched on Pekinand taken it, instead of Port Arthur. If Japan had done so there would have been another storyto tell. This lack of information indicates what great improve-ment has been made in Japan in recent years. The adjoining illustration is an enlargement of a picture sentto me by Field Marshal Oyama, representing the last grand reviewof the triumphant Japanese army, numbering one hundred thou-sand men, at the close of the Russian-Japanese War. The Fmpe-ror of Japan accompanied by Field Marshal Oyama will be seenin the Imperial carriage, at the head of the reviewing party. 66. The History of Three Cable Companies 1 International Ocean Telegraph Company HTHE close of the Civil War found many a soldier without means* of livelihood and undecided as to a lifes occupation. I was oneof them. Upon my retxu-n from the war, in the spring of 1865,I naturally gave the matter much earnest consideration. I wasliving at the time at Riverdale, in Westchester County, New York. Several weeks passed by and no decision was made. I knewthat it was necessary that a decision should be made—and bemade soon—and finally determined to seek inspiration in themountains of western Massachusetts and, with my friend, Pell, planned a tramping tour through that beautifulcountry. On the last Monday in May, in 1865, Mr. Pell and I leftRiverdale on our journey in quest of inspiration. We walkedto the Centtuy House near the old Fordham Bridge—there plan-ning to take the Harlem River boat, the Water Lily, to
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