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It would mean, furthermore. | that Turkey and Russia had entered i into an understanding which might be | interpreted as bringing into play the Anglo-Japanese alliance. Aside from his latter point, there hardly is any uestion that Russia would find Brit- | ish ships blocking the Suez Canal and the Straits of Gibraltar. | “Finally, the Black Sea fleet has been | greatly overrated. It was examined a | short time ago by an American naval | officer, who reported it not in very good | | condition and that it was of no use for | over-sea operations, in consequence of | | the small coal capacity of the vessels | composing it. These vessels had been | constructed simply for operations in ! the Black Sea and not for service in | the Far East.” —_———e———— Reformer Will Return to China. HONOLULU, Feb. 27.—Dr. Sun Yat | Sen; the Chinese reformer, will re- turn to China on the next steamer. He believes that the time is oppor- | tune for renewing reform agitation in the empire. | | | | | i ADVERTISEMENTS. Scrofula Makes its presence known urine. | main undisturbed in a glass or bottle for | settiing or has a cloudy appearance, it | Swamp-Root is the great discovery of | clamor, without haste or show of exs Dr. Kilmer, the eminent kidney and C'tement..calmly, quietly, with the | b fiv‘ % <>céiah<t Hospitals use it leisure of a picnic preparation, the re- yrageie. e * ' ' sponse has been made to the summons But Russia could not make such a con- | powers, other powers would intervene. | % ;flnneck, cutaneous eruptions,” in- famed sore ears. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Effects permanent cures. Call's Special Corr of the | TOKIO, Feb. 9.—The war is on. | After more than twenty-one years of [ negotiation with Russia about Korea Japan has, in her own phrase, “taken ! independent action” to safeguard what | she conceives to be her essential in- (terests. Her navy has gone to sea equipped and reatly to meet the Rus- sian sh and, it the best informa- | tion obtainable can be relied upon, { with or®ers to strike when they are |met. Her army is in motion. TlLe ! men who constitute the regular peace | force have either been moved to the | | points of concentration already in or-| | der to take transport for the scene of land operations as sogn as the navy | has cleared the way, or are now in { barracks at their ~various division headquarters awaiting the order to { move out. Since Friday night, the 5th, | | the men of the first reserve have been swarming to the colors. Even now more men are ready for active service than Japan has use for immediately. All this is what I wrote you ten days ago would occur before that let- |ter could cross the Pacific. That prophecy has been fulfilled. But there | was another about which 1 cared more. Throughout the strenuous dash | across the American continent to catch the steamer which brought me to {Japan there lurked in the back of my {head the haunting fear that to miss | | the connection at San Francisco was | not merely to have to, wait for the | next steamer, but something far more —to miss one of the greatest stories of the war, the answer of the Japanese |nation to the call of arms. I knew | something of Japanese emotionalism {and patriotism and I believed that | when the long period of uncertainty was ended, when the severe nervous | strain of expectant waiting reached its climax in the decision to fight, there |would be such a response from the | people as those who saw should never i forget. It was a natural but errone- ous attribution to the Japanese quali- | ties dominant among ourselv: | Fancy what would occur in New York | the*day we began war with Russia!| Would the Stars and Stripes flaunt | frem windows and roofs and flag poles? { Would crowds gather in the streets and | nien cheer and bands play martial and | inspiriting music? Would signs of -en- thusiasm and excitement be manifest and many? And would the newspapers | be filled with details of the prepara- tions, the call for troops, their mob- ilization and movement, all the grand rush and uprising of the people in an- swer to the call? NO SIGN OF EXCITEMENT. Well, I thought something of that sort would happen here. There would be an extraordinary exhibition of the public feeling, cheers, flags, martial music and the display of popular ex- | citement. But I was altogether wrong. Spectacle it has been and most extraor- | dinary, but quite the opposite of all that 1 had fancied. Without noise or | s* long awaited and so dearly desired. More, it has been attended with a secrecy that is astounding. The nation is at grips with the huge power which | fronts it on the west and north. The | people are proud and determined, glad | | that it is so and sure of themselves and their cause, yet with their ships at sea and their troops on the move | it was not until last evening that they received from their Government the first explanation of why they are going » war or what they mean to win by fcree that they could not get by peace- | ful means. 1 doubt if the Government | of any other civilized people-on earth could do what the Japanese Govern- ment has done and still retain a frag- | ment of popular support. th Yet almost only complaint heard against this { Government is that it has not acted be- {fcre. There is criticism from many quarters that it is not a strong Gov- ernment, the Cabinet is not composed of popular men and there is protest that it has been weak and shilly-shally- ing in the face of the gravest crisis the | nation has known for many years, but | back of the Cabinet sit the five “Elder | Statesmen.” and now that the decision | to act there is,hardly a dissenting | voice. | To an American one of the most ex- | traordinary phases of this extraordin- { ary situation is the attitude of the newspapers. It is safe to say that there is not one of them which has not in- formation which would make pages of | interesting reading. But they obey the letter and the spirit of the law. They not only do not print any news about the movements of troops or ships, or report any of the warlike prepara- tions that are seen now on every hand. | but they do not make even veiled ref- | erences to them; they do not hint or suggest. They solemnly record the fact that the five Genro statesmen and the Cabinet have had a conference lasting ja certain time; that a Prime Minister | has had an audience with the Emperor; { that the Minister of War lunched with | the Minister of Marine, and that is rall. Not a word or a hint as to what | occurred at any of these interesting | sessions, although it must be said that, |in"most cases, they are as ignorant as their readers as to what was discussed. CALL TO THE COLORS. | It was on Friday evening, about 9 | o'clock, that the order of mobilization reached the men of the reserves. They had until Sunday morning at 8 o'clock | to prepare, but by that time they must | be under way to join the colors. The order for mobilization was ac- companied by an extraordinary tight- ening of the conditions of the censorate, and an order was issued {orbidding the transmission of code telegrams ab- solutely in certain places and permit- | ting them from the great seaport towns only where the code books were sub- mitted to the office for inspection and | the translation of the messages offered. At the same time the Englishmen and Americans who are officers in the transport service received their march- ing orders, and the nkght train to Kobe was filled with® them, going toward one or other of the military bases. Before morning the word was in every one’s mouth that the reserves had been called out, but the newspa- pers printed as calmly as ever the oft-repeated guesses about the Rus- sian reply, the time of its delivery and its probable character, Saturday morning showed vacancies among the employes of the business houses, in the hotels, in the banks, everywhere where young men had been at work. The afterncon newspapers printed a brief paragraph saying that Baron Komura, the Minister of For- eign Affairs. had had a short confer- ence with Baron de Rosen, the Russian Minister, and subsequently had been received for a few minutes by the Em- peror. Late in the afternoon a man came to me in the hotel and took me aside to a dark corner, where cne could not see or be seen. In a mysterious whisper, and with his fieger on his lips, he said: / “Sh-h-h! The war is on.” But before that the reservists had begun to report at their gatherina | | FANATICAL PATRIOTI BY OSCAR KING jdiers were gathering. | shut eut they.say good-by. espondent Graphi- cally Describes Opening Scenes War. VIS, points. At various places throughofi Tckio small signs had been hung out setting forth the fact that they were meeting points for soldiers. Men in uniform began to collect about them in little groups of six or a dozen. Here and there their friends gathered also, often many more in number than the soldiers. They stood around and laughed and joked as if it were all great fun, with no possibility of a more serious side. Some of the newspapers began to show embryotic symptoms of excite- ment and issued extras about the size of auction dedgers. These were hawked through the streets by men who ran about ringing little 'bells and going as if their mission was to see who could cover the greatest distance before night without regard to the number of dodg- ers he disposed of. Some of them va- ried the performance by having two or three bells in a bunch, and one fellow had a string of them-—hand bells fas- tened together by a cord. He had chosen them regardless of size and their discordant clangor carried farther than his cries. DEPARTURE OF TROOPS. All day on Sunday unusual activity was evident in Tokio. There were ny persons in‘the streets, but all were coming or going and no crowds collected anywhere except about the gates of the barracks, where the sol- It was common talk that during the night several troop trains had moved out from the military station, which is not the one regularly used for passenger traffic. The men coming in were to take the places in the barracks vacated by those who had gone and to wait there until their turn came to go forward. It is the general supposition that the main base of the army will be at Hiroshima, down on the Inland Sea, as it was during the war with China. There the Emperor is likely to establish his headquarters, with the general staff, and about there | most of the troops will be concentrated. From Ujina, a port near Hiroshima, | and from Moji and Shimonoseki, on the famous straits of Shimonoseki, the main embarkations of troops will probably take place. The troops now moving out are going to Hiroshima or into camp near there, to await their time to go aboard the transports. During Sunday and yesterday the re- servists came in steadily. Now and then there was a group of two or three, but for the most part they came singly. Each was in his uniform, and almost every one of them had a little bundle containing his civilian clothing or whatever it was that he wanted to take along. But only on very rare occasions aid one of them carry his own bundle. That was an office reserved for the friends who flocked with him. There is no parading of the troops through the | streets here when they go to war, no final march past their friends and relatives who throng the streets and cheer them on, no grand public leave taking en masse. A different custom prevails. The friends of the reservists go with them to the barracks and at the. big gate where all civilians are If the sol- dier has anything to carry they lug it for him. Most of the men on Sunday and yesterday marched along stoically at the head of their little processions, now and then exchanging a joking word with those who tagged after them, Occasionally- one walked with two of three friends and more formed a little cclumn behind him. ~ Occasionally one of the group carried a bamboo pole from which flaunted a long streamer - * = = SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE CALL AT THE SCENE OF WAR. * 5 - bearing the name and address of the scldier, with any particulars there might be of previous valorous service. There was never a sign of weeping or of grief in it all. On the contrary it was a laughing, joyous ceremony. Yet there was a tremendous significance about it. For neither the men nor thelr friends believe that any of themn will come back. They count their lives as forfeit to the empire. and they are proud and glad of it. There i3 no need of publie display to ‘stir up the en- thusiasm of these people. It is already stirred to a wonderful depth. My roam boy at the hotel disappeared on Satur- day afternoon. Yesterday I asked the boy who took his place what had be- come of my boy. “He gone see friend,” was the reply. “Is he a soldier?” I‘asked. “No,” said the boy; “too old. His friend soldier, he go say good-by. He go Hokkaido. He come back two days.” LIKE THE FINAL PARTING. Hokkaido is a three days' journey, there and back, but my boy must say good-by to his friend. Because the friend is not coming back from the war. It is a last good-by, the end of the friendship, and there is the same sanc- tity about this journey that there would | be about going to the actual funeral of the friend. So they came in the little groups, and | the liveliest scene in all Tokio was at | the barracks gates, wnere now and then the crowd neared 200 in number. Surely, though these people make no | outward show of their feeling and their enthusiasin, it is none the less there, deep and effective. Perhaps if it were the policy of the Government to pa- rade the troops through the streets and to send them away from the main rail- | road stations in. the daytime there wculd be large crowds to cheer them on and to make public ado about their going; but since the Government SM OF JAPANESE STIRS WONDER Mikado’s Subjects Go to the Front Ex- pecting Never to Return to ive Land. Their Nat chooses to send them away secretly, to conceal its preparations with a care that makes them almost furtive, the | people acquiesce without cemplaint. They make no public demonstration, but they have thought long and deep- ly on what it all means. Their news- papers print scant information about what is going on, but the people know what the main questi is and have made the quarrel the! There is no question of hanging back among them. Wherever they meet they talk it over, and the ricksha coolie will discuss the situation quite as energetically as the educated profefsional man, if not as intelligently. And he has made up his mind to the sacrifice that may be nec- | essary just as much as his more {nr-| tunate fellow citizen. Only the ?ther day in one of the little shops of Yoko- | hama an American who speaks Japan- | ese fluently overheard a group of (hem’ | | talking. % “It will cost a great lot of money, said one. =5 “Yes, and where is it coming from? said another. “The Government will look out for | that,” was the comment of a third. “We must all do what we can, I| suppose,” said the first, “but if the| worst comes to worst we have many things in the country that we can| sell. There is the great Daibutsi at| Kamakura and al! the national art treasures. We can always find a good | sale for them, and then after we have | whipped the Russians and have got| some of the cost of war back we can buy them back again.” | That they were all in sober earnest | showed only the more how determined | the Japanese are for this wa mething of the sacrifice th: lake to carry it on. Collectively they are a poor people, but they are as well | extraordinarily frugal. They are rich | in their capacity for saving, and this/ war seems likely to nrove it. “THEY WILL NOT COME BACK.” Down onf the road to Kamakura an old woman, known to the foreigners as "Oyster Mary,” keeps the road- house that was kept there by her father in the days when Perry came | to Tokio Bay. On Saturday afternoon | an American whom she has known for years dropped in for a cup of tea. “Yes,” she said, as she brought the | tea to him, “the soldiers are getting out at last. We are going to fight. | Just in this little road as far as the | next corner there are twelve. I know | them all. The order came last night | and they have until to-morrow morn- | ing to say good-by to their friends. I could not sleep last night for think- ing about them. It is very sad for them and their friends, for they will not come back. They have their wives and their mothers, and I thought about them all. and I am very sorry for them. But after all they are only one here and another there. | It is not so much. But I was thinking of the Emperor and what sorrow it must be to him, for they are all his, | and I could not sleep all night for| thinking of how he must worry.” | In the train coming up from Yoko- | hama on Sunday afternoon the crowd | in one of the third-class carriages be- gan to talk about the war and of the| calling out of the reserves. | “Well,” sald one old woman, “I have | just said good-by to my grandson. I shall never see him again.” Two or three undertook to commiser- ate with her, and one said it was a { | | pity. “Pity!” cried the old woman, “no such thing! . Do not waste pity on me. I am only proud to have a grandson to give to the Emperor. I know hex will not come back, but I warned h rot to dare to die until he had ki ten Russians or his soul would whipped back by the god of hell There is a firm in Yokohama employs a great many Japanese ing agencies In various parts o country. One of its men returned a short time ago from his year of vice with the colors, and is the ip the first reserve. The e« fcund him a place as soon as his t was up® as it had done for others who had been called out b Just the other day the Yokohama fice got a letter from him. It said he wrote on behalf of himself and t of his mates who could not write Enz lish. They desired to thank the pany for its considerate treatment them and to express their regret at ar inconvenience which their going away again might cause, but they expec to be summoned to the colors again very soon, and as this time it would be for war service they did not ex pect to come back. “But we are delighted,” lettar went on, “to have the opportunity to represent the Emperor in his fight with his enemy.” FANATICAL ESPRIT DE CORPS. There in a nutshell is the key to the oxtraordinary patriotism of the Japan- ese. It is the teaching of the Shintoism that was their religion for hundreds of vears. It is the tradition of the feud- alism that gave them the Samurai and the Daimios, who of their own will and voluntarily gave up their great estates to restore isolated and retrograding Japan to a place among the nations of the world. If one wonders at the al- most fanatical esprit de corps of the Japanese army he must remember that it is still officered by the men who made that memorable personal sacri- fice, and the men of the line have ever before them the tradition of the sol- dier of the day when the fizhting man was in a class by himself, far ahead of his fellow who bargained or toiled for a living, and it is their conceit now to live up to the glory of that day. Each soldier feels himself to be the in- dividual champion of the Emperor, the personal representative of his sover- eign, and the call to the colors is an opportunity greatly prized rather than a sacrifice to be regretted. So, considered as a show, the mob.li- zation has been a disappointment. Color, life, pageantry and blare of bands there has not been. but instead an unimagined and unimaginable ex- hibition far more extraordinary. In all Tokio I have seen hut one flag flving. and that for only a brief time. Only one cheer have I heard, at a railroad station where a crowd of his townsmen ame down to see an old officer start away. Here and there throughout the the | eity sub-depots were opened where va- rious articles of uniform or equipment were issued the reservists. in one place shoes another blouses. in an- other trousers, in another caps. and so on. But not one of these places that I saw was marked by a flag or other in- dication of martial character. except that now and then the guard would be loungihg about with their rifles leaning against the bamboo racks set out in front of the place. JAPAN STATES HER CASE. For several days there have been hints in the newspapers that the Gov- ernment might consider it advisable to issue a statement setting forth the course of the negotiations with Russia and urging strongly that it should Continued on Page 23, Column 1. DR. SHOOP’S REMEDIES. Simply Sign This and Know How To Get Well That is all. Send no money. 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