Bisbee daily review., 1908-11-25
KUROPATK|N
 REGRETS END
 OF JAPAN WAR

To EverlaStlngly LICK laps, |
 and That Enemy Needed
 That Very Thing.
 NEW YORK, Nov. 24.-"The results of the premature conclusion of peace at Portsmouth, by which Japan was recognized as the ccnqueror of Rus sis on the continent of Asia, will un- occasionally be painful, not only TOT Russia, but for all the powers wao have possessions of business interests in Asia. 'The Yellow Peril" whose appearance has only recently been foreseen, has now arrived"
 This astonishing statement is made by Gen. A.exi Kuropatkin, command CT of the Russian army during the Russo-Japanese war, in an article from the suppressed history of the war in McClure's Magazine, rublish- ed today.
 "Japan is feverishly augmenting her forces" he says. China, under the guidance of Japanese officers Is forming a numerous army on the Japanese model"
 "The twentieth century Is bound to bring a terrible conflict in Asia be- tween Christian and non-Christian races.'
 i Gen. Kuropatkin's article Is writ ten to prove that Russia might have served to avert this struggle that he foresees by wiping out the Japanese army during the last war. Russia was ready, he says, to do this, with a million and a half men. ! Never, in our military history he writes, "has Russia sent out forces |, of such strength as in September, !, 1905. when we unexpectedly received l the fatal news that an agreement oe- tween our representatives and the Japanese had been reached at Ports mouth"
 | Gen. Kuropatkin hopes that with an understanding with European pow CTS Russia will be given an oppor- tunity to use all her armed forces in a fight with Japan, or with Japan and China"
 'In a very short time China and Japan will be ready 60 throw into Manchuria an army of more than a million and a half armed men," he says.
 Supporting his statement that Rus. sia could have whipped Japan at tho time peace was declared, and that future historians must say that vic tory was assured to Russia" Gen. Kuropatkin says that by August, 1905. the Japanese army was as good aa routed.
 More men than Japan's whole standing peace army of 116,000 had been sent to their graves by Russian soldiers. There were over 135,0OO Japanese dead. Japau's 315y000 re. serves were disheartened; its creai. was impaired.
 "To all appearances the Japanese were troubled even as to how they could secure ammunition for their ar tillery.
 Later Russia knocked out, either killing or wounding, 300, ,000 Japanese soldiers.
 "One day a Japanese company ID full strength surrendered as prison CTS. The southern temperament show ing itself among tie Japanese in weariness of war. In letters, found on the killed, were found expressions of the weariness of war; and there was news of the heavy taxes whicu had increased in an extraordinary de gree during the war, and the costli- ness of articles of prime necessity. The Japanese could not fail to be worried by the coolness toward thelr successes which began to be shown by the powers of Europe and Amer ica," says Kuropatkin, further sum ming up Japan's alleged distress be- cause it was not at all to the In- terests of European powers to permit complete victory by the Japanese. :" Meanwhile the Russian army had grown in size, enthusiasm, and bray cry. Russia had discovered that it was necessary to guard its frontier from European powers; aged men had been weeded out of the army; young men had taken their places.
 I had succeeded in making all the men think that fighting was neces- | sary," says Kuropatkin. The wo- men will make fun of us," they said to me more than once" The army of Russia, for the first i time since the opening of the war, "was filled to its complement It had received machine guns and bat 1 teries of howitzers; field railways in sured the transportation of supplies to the army; telephones and teIe. : graph had at last arrived. The trans. portation department had been en larged and the sanitary condition of ! the army was excellent" | Kuropatkin closes his article by de- claring that Russia herself must i'm, prove before her army can be any better. A military uniform now, does [ not designate valor. The word "gen, eral" means nothing The best men 1 do not go into the army; the higher officers are promoted the less prac tice they have in commanding troops 1 Soldiers are not kept sufficiently well clad. Too little has been done in the ] schools to encourage patriotic spir
 1t.
 Gen. Kuropatkin sees hope. 'We cannot doubt that Russia, summoned
 to a new life by her monarch, viii ! speedily recover from her temporary
 shock"