The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-19
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spectacular and perhaps inspires the soldiers with greater courage, but the Japanese Is more businesslike.
 The censorship which they enforce tends to deprive them of their just dues in reputation. Often correspondents are forbidden to mention the names of the leaders In daring and important fights because the names might give the enemy a clue to the identify and therefore to the strength and the char acteristics of the organization oppos- ing them.
 General Ogawa gathered his troops in the fog of early morning on the fourth of July aad prevented the Rus sians from seizing the Molten Ling; ha turned Keilar's most successful at- tack of the 17th into disaster and his soldiers from the rocks above the Yushiling shot down a thousand Rus sians without any compensating dam age to themselves. He Is a strategist and fighter In England or America he would be a popular hero, but the newspapers which come to the camp fail to mention him. How unpopular a censorship that excludes exploitation of generals would be with certain oth- CT armies Is appreciated by corre- spondents who have accompanied those armies.
 General Kuroki Is a quiet and un- assuming gentleman. rather the Mo1tke type His type Is apparently the pre- vailing one in the Japanese service Sometimes 1t appears that he has worked out his plan of battle so per- fectly before the event that he can sit down confident of its fulfillment and takes little further interest In the pro- ceedings. During the critical hours of July 31, when his infantry was ad- vancing across the valley to charge the Russian intrenchments on the heights he sat in the court yard of a Chinese temple chatting casually with mem- Der of his staff. General Kuroki's force partakes of his character.
 The Russians have their regimenttal bands which play at sunset hours and on the march and during battle and their followers advance to the sound of the drum. But in this campaign all though the infantry carry bugles by whose notes they march in peace times, have never heard the sound of trumpet near the front. No war songs are sung. The band of the im- perial guards has been with head quarters occasionally and the magnifi- cent service in memory of the dead Ut CcHB wang 4HGHB was COnCluQeu with ringing benediction of trumpets but music has no part in the soldiers daily life.
 Nor Is this a convivial army The few camp followers whose presence near the front is sanctioned, sell cig- arettes. handkerchiefs, caps, tooth brushes. etc. The nearest shop where bottle of saki or beer can be bought is at Feng Wang Cheng. fifty miles to the rear and that means that the off, cers get very little and the soldiers none. Tea, cigarettes and fans are the soldiers luxurtes, fshing,, writing let- ters and reading the'r amusements.
 The field post e0iries an enormous amount Of m&n As,ty day between ARtuhg and thes est, sE'din;f about the camps one always sees hundreds of soldiers sitting cross-legged under the trees painting artistic epistles to relatives with a brush on rolls of thin paper. The greatest indulgence of the officers Is the big iron kettles carried in netting, two on pony which are used for heating water for hot baths as well as to cook the camp mess of rice. few squares of straw mating to construct bath house. a fire and an immense stone jar for a tub spell comfort
 Fans for soldiers seem an anomoly particularly for soldiers so far re- moved from suspicion of effeminacy as the Japanese. Yesterday bat talion of infantry rolled past perspir- ing through the sandy corn fields un> der an almost tropical sun and every man was painting a paper disk. An other souvenir of home life which the soldiers have brought Into Manchuria is fishing line in every knap sack From Commanding General Kuroki down to the humblest collie who trots after his masters hodse, they are dis ciples of the rod
 Seeing these mild-eyed boys sitting for long hours by the banks of moun- tain streams waiting for a three-tnch minnow to bits at angle worms it is hard to realize them as the same fight ing men who storm rock entertainments under showers of shrapnel and bring back the huge Cossacks of awesome reputation. docile captives.
 No description of the Japanese sol dier would be just which failed to mem ton his courtesy and his honesty. Living In the midst of the army. dis playing many luxuries which must he tempting to soldiers kept on a most economical basis. the correspondents leave their effects about the camps without fear for the safety of them. Nothing is stolen, not even tobacco or food. The same thing could hardly be said of other soldiers.