Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-23
THE JAPANESE.
What an American Naval Officer
Thinks of Them.
CAN TEACH EVEN BRITAIN A LESSON
Her Military Operations Without Fault
A Great Country Now at Her Feet
Suing for Peace.

Belknap says: "Her army is to-day the
equal Ct the British army in organiza-
ton and equipment; superior to it in
homogeneity. mobility. and discipline.
Her navy. patterned after British and
American lines. in a state of efficiency.
discipline, and es rit ju corps that any
nation might envy. No foreigner has
place in either arm Of tho national de-
Tense, and. If Japan continues to main
tain her traditional policy of Japan for
the Japanese. to the utter exclusion Of
all aliens from every part of her ma
tional life. she will excel all other
nations in prudence and wisdom.
She knows full well what has bo-
fallen India. Burmah. and Egypt from
admitting a few British traders and
capitalists within their boundaries,
and the doom that is impending over
Siam through the Vaccinations Of both
England and France. She has seen,
this long while. the British squeeze up
ON the throat of China and the brutal
means used to accomplish it; and she
does not mean that such fate shall over
take her IL stout hearts and strong arms
can prevent it.
She knows, too. that Enplind has all
along been secretly opposed to her in
this war with China; that the Eng
fish feet has logged almost every move.
ment of her feet in the China and Vel
low Seas, against the enemy. She
knows. too, that Great Britain. pre-
tending to be the friend of China,
stands eagerly ready at this moment
with her REINFORCED feet to seize a
strategic point of Chinese territory the
instant Chinese stress Of disaster makes
IL feasible. Nor does she forget, as
wrongs to be redressed when tho time
comes. the days when England and
France insisted upon maintaining Brit.
ish and French trops at Yokohama; the
insistence Of England and other
European powers inforoing her to con
tinue tariff schedules fixed and de-
manded by them. their claimed extern
sion of extra territorial rights, and
their defiance and overriding of the
laws of the empire pertaining to omar
antine that all modern governments
and civilized humanity have heretofore
respected in all parts of the world.
Not six months have elapsed since
Japan declared war against China, and
she already has that great country at
her feet suing for peace. Her conduct
Of military and naval operations seems
to have been without fault. Ping Yong
and Yalu will 60 down the ages among
the most momentous of land and sea
fights of modern times.
Contrast the instant mobilization of
her army. its complete commisarIat,
and thorough preparation in every de-
tail for foreign service. with the scan
dalous story of English unreadness.
criminal commissariat. and fatal blum
behring's in every direction at the out
break of the Crimean war and during
the first year of its waging. Compare
also the readiness and the achievement
Of the japanese navy. with tho poor
showing the British navy made in the
Baltic and Black seas during that same
Crimean war. The Japanese fleet went
about its work without confusion or
bluster. but in perfect confidence as to
its ability to meet successfully the
Chinese or any other feet of like force,
We all recollect how Admiral Sir
Charles Napier sharpened his outlasses
at public dinner in London prior to
his departure for the Baltic. and how
he came hack without nick or spot of
blood on their blades. to the chagrin of
all England. Nor did the fleet in the
Black Sea do much better.
From the moment the present war
ends and Japan retires within her Dor.
ders as one of the conQuering nations
Of the century. she will feel that she
has cast off her swaddling clothes of
modern civilization and of quasi sub
mission to the treaty powers in matters
Of tariff concern and extra territorial
rights, and she will demand release
from the CALLING bonds of the existing
thraldom in no uncertain or mincing
tones. For years she has been supple
her creation of an effective
ARMY anu navy ny tne CouStruCtlOu OF
strong forts and heavy batteries at all
the important ports and the narrow
channels leading to them. Armed with
Krupp and other rifled guns of heavier
oaliber they await with composuro the
attack of any hostile feet No British
Minister will hereafter attempt to
anact the meddling and menacing part
Of a Parkes at Toxic. nor will any
British fleet lombard with impunity a
second Tengoshima. And bearing in
mind the undoubted fact that England
,as never waged war on the humane
ines that have characterized Japan in
his war with her great unwieldy ene-
ny. has Japan not the right to feel
hat in all justice and sovereignty she
s entitled to demand the fullest powers !
II autonomy as regards all the affairs
whether foreign or domestic?
have seen in recent years the off.
ers ana crews of English and japanese
hips OF war under various circum-
tances. have seen an English Ad-
niral handle force of ten ships in
apanese waters. and Japanese Adj
liral maneuver q fleet of twentv.two