The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-18

lin the case, as usual. who has been the 70 between and received an enormous sum of money for information and doc uments which were forwarded to the
 Russian authorities by an agent fin
 Shanghai. She has kept him informed By cipher telegrams of every move ment of importance on the Japanese
 side. The leak was discovered. and the Icolonel was called before his chief. One
 version of the yarn says that he made a full confession and was allowed to com
 init harikari. the Japanese method of
 suicide. Another version says that he
 denied his guilt and mace a stout de-
 fense, but was convicted on trial. shot and buried in the grounds of the gener-
 alstaff headquarters all within a
 night.
 | If there has been case of treason
 during the present war 1t Is the second
 in the history of Japan. which makes
 1t very remarkable. In the year e3s. almost a thousand years ago. Tiara no
 Masakado, disappointed at not being appointed Dia- Dia -Jin, or prime min- ister of the government, betrayed the Emperor Suzaku and set himself up as "a mikado. He was a man of great ener- gy and ability, and until now has fur
 nished the only case of disloyality in the whole course of Japanese history. But so far as I can ascertain by dili- gent inquiry the present romantic [story of treason is a pure myth. In the first place according to the testi- mony of the foreign military attaches who have been personally acquainted | with every officer at the headquarters of the general staff. there have been no | changes there for more than a year un- til Field Marshal Oyama and General Kodama were transferred to Man churia. The subordinate officers who
 have been on duty there for more than a year still remain. No one has disappeared, and no one could disappear without the knowledge of the foreign CTS. who have personal acquaintance with every man about the place. Fur thermore, If such a tragic episode had occurred 1t would have been whispered
 about among military circles, and mo-
 body in Tokio ever heard or suspected of such an incident until they read about 1t in an English newspaper. The Secretary of War; Lieutenant General Terauchi. is an old soldier, who
 has spent his life in the military ser vice of Japan. The Marquis Yamagata, who succeeds Oyama was chief of the of the Japanese forces during the war with China ten years ago. He is quite
 
 faculties are still unimpaired. Marshal Yamagata visited the United States while en route to London, where he ap- peared as the personal representative of the Emperor at the coronation of King Edward VII. His assistant and the successor of Baron Kodama Is Ma jor General Gaishi Nogoaka, a young man with brilliant record.
 Marshal Oyama was one of the ablest and most active of the younger leaders of the revolt against the shogun for the restoration of the Emperor to power in 1867. and has ever since occupied a con spicuous position in military affairs We have felt special interest in his prominence and success because his wife Is practically an American having been sent to the United States to be educated when she was quite a little girl. She Is a graduate of Vassar Col lege and was the valedictorian and president of the class of 1888. She comes from an excellent family and by reason of her ability her beauty and her intelligence she has been, after the Empress, the most influential and i'm Major General Yamahawa. Is a famous soldier, and her sister Mime, Yamaha- wa. has been the confidential secretary and lady in waiting of the Empress for twenty years. Both Mime Yamahawa and the Marquis Oyama are Christians members of the Congregationalist Church. and have for years been active in religious and charitable work.