The Van Buren press., 1904-10-15
The WAY JAPANESE
CONDUCT THE WAR
Abstract of a Paper Read by Maj,
Seaman Before the Military
Surgeons at ST. Louis.
.OMMISSARIiT and SANITATION
THE FIRST THINGS THOUGHT OF.
loss From rreNcntabie Disease is
Reduced to IA Minimum--N Uus-
sian Cnntrnst--our own aud 9th
cr Nations Could weII rake Les
sons From Japan.

sons From Japan.
St Louis, oct l&.-FolloW il an
St Louis, oct Following is an
abstract OF an interesting paper read
by Mai Seaman before the Association
If Military and Naval Surgeans assem-
bled at the Worlds fair.
Mai Seaman visited in turn all the
naval and military hospitals in Japan
aud the Russian wounded and prison
crs at Matsayma. where the prisoners,
some 600 In number were being "en-
tertained, as Maj Seaman put it, The
men, he said, were being literally fed
with fish, white bread fruit and many
deliCacies. Several OF them, he said,
declared they hoped to be left in Japan.
Speaking of the effect of the famous
Shimose powder, Maj Seaman cited
the case Of a Russian sailor on the
cruiser Nariag, whose body contained
i6l distinct shots.
Mai Seasan pointed out the small
percentage Of deaths from wounds
among the Japanese, and said that
from the testimony OF those conyersant
with the facts, supplemented by his
own observation, the loss from pre-.
lentable disease in the conflict will be
put a fraction Of one per cent This,
too, he added, In a country VIGOROUSLY
unsanInry.
sharp Arraignment.
In contrast TO this condition Of pre-.
paredness, Mai Seaman described tne
conditions which he said existed In
the Russian service in Manchuria prior
20 the outbreak Of the war
Arriving trains, he declared, that
should have been crowded with men
and munitions Of war, brought each
full complement of the demimonde and
vodka. Wine, woman and song were
certainly the undoing OF Russia, where
a beauty and a bottle were the high
est ambition Of It's OftiCers-from gen
eral TO corporal. SOdom and GomOrrah
the current synonyms Of Port Ar.
thur and Nladiyostok in the orient
were temples of virtue in comparison
TO the debauchery licentiousness, fla.
grant immoralities and openly -haunt.
ed vice recently practIced in those IN
happy cities"
Touching the lessons 10 be learned
from the Japanese war, Maj, Seaman
said.
THE Japanese authorities permitted
our government to send five military
attaches to accompany their army IN
the field. Was a surgeon or a quarter.
master or a commissary detailed? No.
They represented the Iife-saying and
life-preserying departments, and were
omitted. The killing departments got
the appointments, and to-day the Jap.
ancse officers are laughing In their
sleeves al our senseless failure to have
Representatives on what they consider
their three vital points, whilst the
only weak, almost burlesquc feature
Of their army, Is considered Of suf'
Rcicnt importance 70 be worthy of spe'
Cial study
Lesson, to lie Learned,
"But what can be expected OF o
government that after such terrible
lessons Of 1889 slill insists especial
~ In the tropics OF subsistlng IT.
army on ration 40 rich and elastic
noycly term, that elasticj that when
In the emergency Of war It's elasticity
* tested II bursts It's bonds aud l.
found TO consist Of pork and beans
and fermentlng canned rubbish that
in six weeks prostrates 30 per cent Of
rs $50 900 units with intestinal dis.
eases, ana sends 5000 to their last
homes, 10 say nothing Of the enormous
inyalldcd and the $1,000 pension
claims? THAT In rs famous roorganiza
ton falls utterly TO recognize one OF
the most important Of all departments,
namely, that Of sanitation, asit ~ rec
ognIyed by the Japanese to-day? That
holds lls greal lIfc.presorving depart
mcnt In such Hight esteem that but
onc ofioer In the entire army can even
reach the rank and emoluments Of ".
brigadIor.general? That on its general
stan fails 10 have single representa-
tive OF this department, and II any
only q young inexperienced man OF
inferior rank, instead Of the ablest ana
most experienced Orlcer In or out OF
the service, one ol lnternatonol rcpn'
tarion like our returned Surgcon.Gen
crnl Stcrnborg''
\ slap ~ Congress
Mai seaman assailrd congro" fof
abollBhlnE the post ranlccn, ANA said
II was time Tor this Association of Mil
,tnry ana Na,a Surgeons 10 demand
another reorganization of the army
which would an0rd the medical branch
equal recognition with other branches
OF The service.