The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1904, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1904 MIKADO'S COMPREHENSIVE WAR PREPARATIONS ARE DESCRIBED BY THE CALL'S CORRESPO NDENT - Secret Movement! of Troops Be- || fore War. VISR FAE | Japan Has ZO0,000:j Men in Active Ser OSCAR ¥ vice. - | DAVIS, ¢ The Cal RING he best to the be- Japan st t before this let- | coast the war will be an actual- is ‘almost he serious | Out- informa- cing temper | the day war e ry p- being » talk pir- | with | con- pro- wave man- nded began now | To one which the such sit- re > war avely ntlemen OF TROOPS. of troops % oA o MK CONDENSING C S This Cap Label is a guarantee of the purity nd richness of our Pei a Evaporated Gream We offer $5,000 reward one able to prove adulteration of our product. | people. Ten Thousand Jap anese Spies in Manchuria. | -| | | | Japanese Empire Fighting for Its Life. ‘ Growth Compels Acquisition of Territory. H BY OSCAR KING DAVIS, | Special War Correspondent of The Cail. TOKIO, Jan. 30.—To understand fully the critical situation in which Japan now finds herseif one must go back into her history for many years. Un- doubtedly Russia’s action in depriving her of the fruits of her victory over the Chinese in.the war of 1894-5 has done much to crystallize among the Japanese people the hatred which now longs to find expression in armed ac- tion. But the ultimate cause lies much deeper. For 2000 years Japan has been inti- matelv associated with or concerned in Korea. Many of her people came from the hermit kingdom.” Her instruction in the Buddhist religion was given by Koreans. The beginnings of her civ: ilization were Korean. Subsequently when she outgrew her preceptor she conquered Korea and enforced tribute. Now she fs the mentor and Korea the pupil. In sentiment and in religion their ties are strong. Japan feels that if there is to be any development of | the Korean peninsula in the ways of | modern civilization it must come | through her agency. Moreover, a mat- ter of military necessity, the very life | of the nation depending upon it, Korea | must either be preserved in her integ- | rity and independence or come under | Japanese influence completely, if not | into Japanese possession. | But as long ago as 1882 the wstch!’ul‘ Japanese saw Russia beginning to move toward Korea. Even then she! | | realized what that might mean, and| she warned Russia that there must be ! | no encroachment by her upon the Ko- rean peninsula. Russia smiled and dis- | claimed in the usual way. Even then Japan was beginning to feel the press of increasing population. Now her yearly increase is in the neighborhood | of 600,000. Her territory is occupied al- | most to the limit. Only one island, | | Hokkaido in the north, yet affords an outlet to her thronging people, and every year from 60,000 to $0,000 of them there. Already the e | of the big Nippon Yusen Kaisha lin- s is a stockholder in a corporation | which mines ir Rec in the ted to this caj desired to take up attorney not caring an impor is operating an in 1 word atly was sent Yokosuka station. tried several times. to| f———— s -g in. He went to] | ] and explained THE CALL'S SPECIAL COR- urgency of h AT = THE | ng with his cli- eived word that his making fur- communication of permitted to W d he be ¥ communic was 1 efforts Island Empire Is| Deficient in Cavalry. plausible Russi ¢ —e authority, it resented by R dent can learn within a day or | | two after filing a message whether the censor has stonped “‘from the sixth to! the seventy-sixth word™ or not. SYSTEM OF ONAG rd curion W A 18 effect of | is to be found in the book : It is a bad time - e who have | shops. O littl any underhanded business to transact. graphs of the Tha esplonage covers 10i- Zommon cigne alike, and if there ews of | |is it i the navy we | The ¢ siders the po tures of naval and milit men were to be had at mq of the photograph | spects the shops, as well as many v vate person views, drills and sham battl Americans came out of a hotel in To- not one is to be had. All ha kio and started for a morning walk. vithdrawn by order of the had gone far they discov- ment, as if it were i thev were followed. Both Russians to obtain men and they gave the spy | from such a source of chase for an hour. Then they | e not long ago pbssessed them- | brought him back to the hotel, and | HATRED OF THE RUSSIAN. So secretly has the Government acted | © that it is doubtful if a half-dozen men | in all Janan know to-day exactly what one kept him occupied the other into the hotel and got an inter- Then fthey demanded to know | he meant following them w an exciting debate between | whi went int all the row is about or could detail the | ¢ erpreter and the other, then the course qf the negotiations with Russia | "LciPreter said: since the situation beca ith Russia |~y savs he is from the country and b 1e situation became dangerous | hag never heen in Tokio before in his There have been note and You are the first foreigners he has 'h'.;fuf:“‘ g me n, and he was so much inter- L mates «'.lrf some were | i yur manner and your dress »a"d"l d\"_ o it all if one vour taik that he followed you. He e 3 atience a mosaic | meant no offense and asks your par- | could tehed which probably | qon 3 ; ..y r.zn'); !-..nr sent the truth But all the time war preparations go tatement of a sort as to the car wpidly. There is no question that | of the differences with Russia or their Japanese authorities know exactly cha author of war be been made by any one in The nation is on the ause of demands upon have to do fo beat Russia. ary information is wonder- they went to war with §hina verge Rus- sia the nature of which the populace | ago they not only knew the does not pretend to know. Nor does it | character of their enemy; they knew care much. The fundamental causes of | the topography of the country over the general hatred of Russia are well | which they expected to fight and they known to ev anese. The author- | knew the condition and equivpment of ities have no need to work up a public | the Chinese troops. It is not too much sentiment for the war. On the contrar; to that they are now prepared their task is more in the way of re-|against the Russlans fully as well as pressing the belligerent feeling of the | against the Chinese, i not better. They The extraordinary patriotism | know as well as the Russians how of the Japanese will lead them to sup- | many Muscovite troops there are in port the war whatever its causes. When | Manchuria and Eastern Siberia, and the time comes perhaps the four or five | where they are stationed. Ever since statesmen at the head of affairs who | the Russianization of Manchuria be- now know what all of these notes and | gan the Japanese have looked forward ave said will think it wise to|to the time when they would fight, and have prepared for it. They have stud- , scale, showing a large field of opera- | _ | ind new homes Splendid Navy the "% Tokio Govern- ment’s Hope. There must be an- When the war with China offered the chance of obtaining a foothold on the! continent of Asia that might have A %! But the companies are n the size'of ours when in active serv | numbering on the war footing arly twice e, 240 % > = o % | men, so that a battalion is about a | i 3 ! thousand strong. Besides the infan- known to their own Government as| .. aach division has a regiment of | two battal- to the Russians. fleld or mountain artille: In the preparation of their war |jons of three batteries, six guns in a maps the Japanese have a way of | battery, 120 men to a battery. Th;‘ 3 4 apan vention ~ an ak them first on a rather small | 8uns are of Japanese inventi s i apable of doing fine make and are Each d rision also has a regi- work. such as it is. The ment of cavalry i'hen smaller s show more | uons. in detail sections of the larger. .Siill Sk 4 taaller sections are.shown in still | horses of the Japanese are very poor | Treater detail, I saw some of the|and the men are not specially skillful | | as riders. Military observers rate the cavalry | as very poor. Certainly it is not near- | y the equal of the Russian Cossac orce. Bach regiment consists of three squadrons—troops we should call them—of about 150 men each. There is also in each division a bat- talion of engineers, who are among the best soldiers of Japan, very highly maps they used in the Boxer campaign in China and they were marvelous. Every bunch of trees and every hut every turn of the road, every chang of elevation was shown. The working maps by which the column was guided were only about two jeet square and the scale was so large that they | showed but a small section of the country. Such estimates as the Jananese war | trained. Besides these lh"l;l" are \)I\s, authorities ha nermitted to hecome ‘rr‘gular commissariat an supp! rains and the sanitary, or medical corps. All told, on the war footing, | each division consists of about 15,000 | of Ru ble for includ- sian this public fix the numbe troops at present ar as appr ately 200,000 : 1 i‘:uzl s ,‘L‘""h'l".'\'";f,"lid&’ f prob- | men. This makes nl{)'xe fighting line | able that since that ate was ““fl‘lh?;‘l‘?EO‘l:h§°?{:“‘\; Honn e il bublished the Russian bro peace the army hardl r:‘,}:\“f:, e aats gDt | that size. Every man on rea hing the 1 R he i ofis of Y lage of 21 is required to serve with | could, but the limitations of thelr | o cojors. but there are many exemp- | nsportation make it doubtful if reinforcements have exceeded To meet this force the Jap- rently relying on their regular army. If they ve any ex- pectation of calling out volunteers no intimation of it has become known. The army is organized on the skeleton plan, h company in peace times umbering about half what its full war quota is. There are twelve regu- lar divisions and the Imperial Guard, which constitutes a division by itself. Jach division consists of two brigades of infantry, each brigade being com- o tions in peace times. After three | years with the colors the men go into the first reserve for five years. In war ihe fighting line is at once filled up to | the limit from the first reserve. It is this fact which accounts for the con- fusion of reports now current as to whether the first reserve has been | -alled out or not. In part it h in part it is standing by for or go. What movements of troops have been have been conducted very | secret] For the most vart they have been at night. Not long ago the cap- tain of one of the big London liners | and posed of two rvegiments. The regi-|that had been requisitioned for trans- | ment Is organized like our own. of | port service spent the night ashore in | three battalions of four companies. | Yokohama. in the morning he was % sent for hurriedly to go aboard. On | reaching his ship he found her full of | troops that had been put on in the night. Immediately the ship sailed | and only the men high in authority know where she went. 1t is idle to speculate upon what the | movements of the army will be when | once war is begun. Sooner or later, however, Korea will undoubtedly be occupied. Russia cannot prevent that. The Japanese have the inestimable ad- vantage of a well protected interior | line of communication with Korea. | From Moji to Fusan it is only a night's | steaming. Midway lies Tsushima, with | its great fortifications. Flanked on | either side by the Japanese ships the Russians would have to exert their en- tire naval strength to force the pas- | sage to get at the Japanese transports, and it does not seem likely that they | would risk such an »ngagement. It is| popularly believed here that the first move will be naval. The Japanese | have forbidden newspaper men to ac- company the first operations, either | naval or land, and have issued very | stringent regulations covering the ! case. Commanders of naval stations DR. 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The suspicion of Russia, which had been felt by the men at !he. head of affairs, became a hatred of ter-| Fible intensity among the common peo- | ple. PREPARES FOR CONFLICT. Then came the Russian lease of I‘n_rli Arthur, and Japan saw her enemy in possession of the Liaotung peninsula, | from which she had been ejected. It i3 an old story how she began then to| prepare for the conflict now about to| break. At the time of the Boxer out-| break in 1900 Japan received new evi-| dence of the Russian intention. Great | PRritain and the United States asked | Japan to send her troops to the rt’l!s’(i of the beleaguered legations in Peking. Russia protested. Already her designs on Manchuria were becoming clear. The Boxers gave her an opportunity. ut them into Manchuria. The horror . she turned to her of Blagovechensk own account. Japan understood and prepared to counter by bringing her troops from China to Korea, but she was not yet ready for the conflict that might have | precipitated and her men came back | to Japan. She kaew the shiftiness of Russian promise, but for the time she was content to strive to obtain its ful- fillment. Russla promised to evacuate Manchuria and Japan hoped to see tha promise made good. She had given up hope, at least for the time, of obtaining the needed footing on the continent, but she now saw with increasing alarm the evidences of Russian aggression upon Korea. When the time set for Russian evacuation of Manchuria came and passed and the Russian troops still held their ground Japan knew that the time had come to act. Russia not oniy refused to leave Manchuria, but ad- vanced toward Korea. Already her subjects had secured a lease at Mas- ampho, almost in sight of the Japanese coast. In spite of the explanation that it was only a private enterprise, purely commercial, Japan recognized the menace to her interests. Then began the series of negotiations aimed at reaching a settlement of the matter which Janan could feel would be defin- ite. But each Japanese step was met by a further advance of Russian de- mand. Russia secured a concession at Yongampho, south of the Yalu River. Japan began to prepare to fight. No one realized better than she the char- acter of the undertaking, but no one knows so well as she that it is for her very life. ‘War is not made because of the fail- ure of negotiations; it is a world move- ment which mere human agencies can- not control. *The old, huge Russian | with his insatiable earth-hunger finds | himself, at the close of his long journey | to the open sea at the Kast, face to face with the new-bora Japanese, | feeling at last the irresistible urge of | the oress of population. The conflict is inevitahle. It is no irruption of wild barbarian§ choking down an old civil- | even if they | unrestricted | will afford relief for but a few years at Her interest is selfish.” a conflict of civilizations. Korea will either fall under the slow mov- ing Russian or come under the Influ- ence of the active Japanese. For Japan it means much more than for Russia: but the Japanese statesmen realize that win in the war their re- lief will be but temporary. Korea, with its 8,000,000 or 10,000,000 of people, is only half as large again as Nebraska. Yet they call it thinly settled. Open to Japanese immigration it purel It is the most. In climate and_soil it is suitable for the Japanese. When it is occupied there is nothing In sight be- yond. There is a curious difference between the Japanese public and private declar- ations concerning Korea. Publicly they profess to desire the preservation of the integrity and independence of the peninsula. Privately they admit that | the destiny of Korea is absorption by Japan. They realize that its occupa- them can no longer be delayed, hether there is war with Russia or not that will occur very soon. el OSCAR KING DAVIS ENVIABLE RECORD AS WAR CORRESPONDENT Oscar King Davis, The Call's special war correspondent, was born in Bald- winsville, , on January 13, 1866. In | his youth he laid a zood educational foundation for the profession to which his later years were devoted. In 1883 he was graduated from Colgate Uni+ versity, Hamilton, N. Y., and he re- ceived the degree of master of arts four years later. Davis was chosen from many ap- | plicants as special correspondent of the New York Sun and Harper's Weekly at Manila during the Spanish- American War and the Philippine in- surrection, and accompanied _the American contingent of the allied forces sent to the relief of Peking dur- ing the Boxer uprising of 1899-1900. In all these, as was the case with his work generally, he gave eminent satis- faction to his principals and readers On the approach of the present crisis in the Far East Mr. Davis was selected by the Call-Herald news combination as one of its principal newsgatherers at the scene of action and only a few weeks ago passed through this city on his way to the Orient. Besides his work as a Jjournalist, Mr. Davis is the author of several books on subjects of lively current in- terest, among which were “Our Con- quests in the Pacific” and “Dewey’s Capture of Manila,” with “Sherreaf’s Exclusion” and other stories. ——— e ADVERTISEMENTS. AVOID 9 ! L Lyon's = L] | make public their information. If they do the neople will be glad; but if 1 PERFECT glad; but if they do not it will be all right, and there will be no failure of enthusiasm for war on AN ELEGANT TOILET LUXURY that account. Used by people of refinement - |, It is a situation which could not exist in the United States. There is a care- for over a guarter of 2 century PREPARED BY fully dfrected campaign of secrecy, I W Ly 2D 5. which involves watching everything and everybody. Private and press tele- grams have been closely scrutinized for some time, and a secret censorship has been in force. The man who filed a press telegram had no means of finding out whether his message had been sent or not, and if it were sent he had no means of ascertaining whether it had | been garbled by the censor. No one knew who the censor was or the loca- tion of his office, and it was useless to attempt te find out anything about it from any of the telegraph people. Pri- vate messages which were prepaid were in a slightly better case. When words were stricken from them the sender was notified in the course of a few days and the money for those words refund- ed. He at least had the satisfaction of knowing that his message had not gone as he wrote it. Now the censorate has been modified a little, and a press cor- Honesty is the best policy - Schilling’s Best: baking powder favoring extracts tea coffee wpices soda Your grocer’s; moneyback. ied the country in minute detail. Their maps show the result of this work. In- dividual huts and clumps of trees are shown. Their knowledge of the ter- rain is complete. It is doubtful if the Russians themselves are as well in- formed as to the topography of the battle ground, be it Manchuria or Ko- rea, as the Japanese. For some years there have been in the neighborhood of 10,000 Japanese in Manchuria and 30,000 in Korea. Nearly every one of them has been a source of information to the military authorities here, and not a few of them have been military men in one disguise or another. | SPIES IN ROLE OF SERVANTS. With false pigtails and in Chinese | later dress they have worked as servants for Russians, understandidg and not- ing every word their masters said. It is an advantage the Russians can never have. Their bulk absolutely prevents them from undertaking any such secret work with the Japanese and they are forced to rely upon Chi- nese for spiles or upon the very few | twenty-one one-cent stam; renegade Japanese they have been able to find, with the added difficulty what is ically the same thing, let | or of fleets are empowered to estah- | him be ic, and his muscle would |lish what are termed strategical sea | soon fail. Strength is made from food |areas, into which noTshhiD ma); cor:e proper! igm«ft assimi without permission. e captain who | y.d ) LIS endeavors to enter such an area 1o man is stronger than his stomach, be- cause when the stomach is diseased di- | gestion and assimilation are imperfect. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Di cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It enables the digestion and assim- ilation of food so that the body is nour- ished into perfect health and strength. « hysician call igestion. e T foe The Troubie Ik ke He gave me medi me no good,” es Mr. W. H. Wells, of Wil- Pierce and stated lldlulm-:n!:ty' suffered in stomach, my nerves 1 was very thin in and sleep good at Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical Adviser is sent free on receipt of stamps to pay expense of mailing on/y. Send for the -covered book, or o the -one stamps cloth-bound volume. Address that such Japanese are almost as well ' Dr, R, V, Pierce, Buffalo, N, ¥, against the wish of the commander may- be sent back in charge of an armed vessel and imprisoned and fined, One great advantage the Japanese navy has is of inestimable value. There are three great units—the battleship | squadron, the armored cruiser squad- ron and the cruiser squadron. For months each squadron has been ma- neuvering by itseM, with frequent grand maneuvers embracing the en- tire navy. At the naval station at Takeshiki, in Tsushima, twenty toe- pedo vessels have been practicing in e flotilla. The result is that every flicer of every vessel knows not only what his own ship will do under any given circumstance, but also what every other ship will do. That intri- cate and valuable bit of naval infor- mation, the helm angle of each ship, is matter of common knowledge. They can maneuver as well in the dark as in the light, and if a ship is transferred from one squadron to another she but comes back to old mates who know her well and no new drill is required to fit her to the new conditions. THE CAUSE .- DISEASE ization to secure new homes for them- selves. It is a new civilization work- ing out its destiny in the path of world | development. The Western Oriental and the Eastern Occidental are at &rips. Niae-tenths of all our diseases The Japanese reformation “rom cen- | turies of exclusion and inactivity Is yet | in its infancy, but it “2s accomplished wonders. Now Japan feels that if this civilization, with all that it means to the world, is to be engrafted. even though it be but faintly, upon the ef- fete hermit kingdom, it must be through the agency of her people. who know and understand the Koreans and Chinese as no other people of the | world do. ' “Russia is not a civilizer,” said one | of the old Japanese_ statesmen to me yesterday. “There are but two classes in Russia—the rulers, who are corrupt through and through, #nd the ignorant, | stupid, unintelligent peasant, with '“’l centuries of oppression and misrule behind him. The vaunted Greek church | itself is not a civilizex. On the con- | trary, it is rotten and corrupt as the governing class behind it. 1 say that Russia is not entitled to attempt the redemption of an Asiatic people. She have their beginning with - CONSTIPATION It is a duty we owe to our body to secure a free move- ment of the bowels once every day. The one reliable remedy for constipation is HUNYADI JANOS THE NATURAL LAXATIVE WATER. Half a glass on arising gives prompt and pleasant relief.