. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. es short span :Now is the hour—for we are with Russia ! On, Japan ! Vaunt not Russias vast dominions—Boast not of her legions bold :What is vastness in a desert ?What are hosts whose hearts are cold ? Thousands starving : traitors lurking :Coffers empty : lack of grain,How shall Russia stand against us,Stand the long and weary strain ? But our own dear precious countryNeath its Emperor can thousand years, and more, unbroken,Stretches back his Heaven-born line. We are true and we are loyal, Roshia, as its lett
. A staff officer's scrap-book during the Russo-Japanese war. es short span :Now is the hour—for we are with Russia ! On, Japan ! Vaunt not Russias vast dominions—Boast not of her legions bold :What is vastness in a desert ?What are hosts whose hearts are cold ? Thousands starving : traitors lurking :Coffers empty : lack of grain,How shall Russia stand against us,Stand the long and weary strain ? But our own dear precious countryNeath its Emperor can thousand years, and more, unbroken,Stretches back his Heaven-born line. We are true and we are loyal, Roshia, as its letters say,*Melts before the morning sunlight;Melts and swiftly fades away. March then with our sunlight bannerWaving proudly in the van :March beneath that glorious with Russia ! On, Japan ! June 9th, 1904.—Rode round the outposts, afterhaving bidden a sad adieu to two charming country-women who haye shed the radiance of their counten-ances over Fenghuangcheng for the past two or * The Japanese characters for dew and for Russia z oOw KH SO« > The Chinese General Pays a Visit 171 three days. The visit of Miss McCaul and MissSt. Aubyn has been a delightful break in the monasticorder of our life. They have not only been very cleverto get here but also lucky, with a luck only equalledby ours in meeting them. Not a single Japanese soulfeminine is allowed even at the base. The ImperialPrincesses themselves are restricted to making charpiein Japan. The ladies of the Far East do not seem toexercise powers at all proportionate to their fascina-tions. I have asked Japanese officers about femaleinfluence in the army, and they simply do not under-stand the question. There is no such thing. It doesnot exist. Not that favouritism of other sorts isunknown, although it seems, judging by what Lieutenant told me the other day, to take an upside-down shape, like so many things in Japan. Hesaid he had such a number of important friends in thearmy that it would be
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