The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-04-14
JAZZ PANESE SOLDIERS
ARE VERY FOND
Of BEERS
CANTEEN IN ARMY SAID TO BE
RESPONSIBLE FoE GOOD
HEALTH or MEN,
STRATECIST OF ARMY
Drank CIaret With Every Mcai--Sakc
Distributed rs Z Ratlon to Men
Whenever Thsre Was a
firing Battle.

New York. April l3E Kinds, Of
Hampstead inquired whether the Jap
anese army had canteen
IT he Japanese keep their soldiers
in bette? health than DO the Rus ians.
he wrote, "better health than ours,
bette than European soldiers ganer-
ally let us initiate and learn from
them.
One VINO was with the Japane e
army in Manchuia for six months
answers:
Old foreign campa.gners remarked
in the field that ne army probably
ever had SO many cantean in it's
wake When the army was not march
ing here was always q canteon or two
moi far 10 the rear Of every division.
When il settled down to rocupeyate
after battle caute MS were quickly
established in Manchu house,.
Cigarettes end Beer Carried.
"The carried cigarettes, writing
paper, postcards, beer imitation bran
dy. i'm taton whisky, imitation port
imitation sherry, AXE and 3mo,lmas
Manila cigars,
"Japarese are Keen trader MOI 200
feet back cf the Nanshaa battery one
lay in the seyen-day battle Of the
Shaho there wa7 a Japanese peddler
selling cigarettes, Chinese sweet cakes
rice and beer 10 the res eryes, During
the same battle The c3nteeas were
never mere than thsee miles back Of
the front line of trenchc5
"As ii Japanese soldier3 pay is
only $1.3G a month, and the amy saw
ngs banFs had. considering that, phe-
nomenal deposits there was not mu h
spending money in the army. A bnl-ln
Of tecr costs 10 cents and q packer cf
cigarettes about cents.
Distribute sake as a Ration.
Whenever there was titins bat
tie tho commander-in-cHief woud or
der sake distributed as q ration on
be Nikado's birthday n year ago an
extra double packet of cigarette. wa
j stributed to each man on the field.
This cos the emp2ro" more than
$4,000 Otherwise, when III distribu-
fian was possible, ten cigarettes a day
went with the regular ration.
One day in an American periodical |
received at the camp there was a |
solemn poem celebrating the abti-
nence Of the Japanc.e from drink !
This caused concern among the jap
anc.e officers who d liked the ON
pha is laid upon The difference ho |
tween their army and an European |
my. and the commissary general ,ol3 |
the foreign observers;
Send Drink 90 the Trenches.
Our soldiers like drink as well as
3ny other ollicrs. Sometimes they
need Is when they cannot get it. and |
we send it TO them in the trenches
"As a mat er OF fact though the |
peasant at bone ha a hard enough |
time to supply himself with food ne is |
not more ayerse than other people TO
strong liquor once he learns the taste
of IT, Many a man viii g. homo from |
The campaign with tas as he never hai !
lefore.
The manufacture @: beer is still |
'oung industry in Japan bur from the
ime the process was imported il has
grown to enormou proportions.
Headquarters. even hatlaliCn head !
quarters in Underground bomb proof |
renches were always supplied with !
heer or sweet wne. Marshal Oyama |
liked sweet champagne. The atrateeis
IF tha war, Geuc-ll Kadama. drank |
claret with every meal"