The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-06-06
FRANCE is COUNTRY
Dr. WIDOWS: BRITAIN
VAST DRILL GROUND
eallics Bear Brunt Of War Losses
cheerfully, Hoping To Crush
Teutonics
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JAPANESE ARMY OBSERVER
TALKS ABOUT BIG CONFLICT
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London Is Training Thousands Of
Men and School Boys To
Fight Enemies

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GFranee is the nation Of widows
England a country of vast prepared
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Thus did Col. X. Fukushima of tn
Japanese Intelligence Corps sum up hi
impfessions Of the two warning lands
ID an interview given as he passed
through this city on his way home t,
Toxic, last Saturday, on board the Per
aia Maru.
1.-THE thing one feels most in Lon
don, and anywhere else in Great Bnt
Hln, Is the air Of tense endeavor, of al
Utmost feyerish striving to get read,
for some impending event, This doe
not show so much on the surface o
things, but the moment one begins t,
look deeper than the surface one can
not help but see IL everywhere.
Gloom In Dark London
Perhaps the darkness of the Lon
don streets at night; and the eOnstan
feeling In that gloom that the alarm o
t1o coming Of the Zeppelins may soun,
1t any moment, has something to d.
With this sensation on the part of tn,
visitor. At any rate this darkened cit!
II most impressive.
s-tt1 left Japan under orders to stud,
military economy in Berlin, and ar
rived there Just one week before tn,
outbreak of the war. Then came thu
var, and friends Of mine cabled to m
Or the probable attitude of Japan.
Backed Immediately and left for Nor
way, and a month after 1 was in Lon
don. Since that time have been u
various duties in England md France. ,
Speaking of the sentiment in Eng
land, Colonel Fukushima said:
htsThe most remarkable thing abOu
the war in Great Britain is the patriot
7 lam Of the upper classes, so-called. Their
- nothing that know of to be com
pared with IL. Not even the devotion
Of the Japanese to their Emperor ant
country is any greater.
Patriotism Unnotieed
Members of parliament have re
signed to enlist as private soldiers /.
the army. High governmental official
have done the same. Business men an,
professional men have resigned from
their posts and joined the army a.
privates or as non-eommissiOnedo officers
This has become so common a thini
that no one comments upon it any long
er. Co.,. r.g q,
9Th the big public schools and col
leges Q full half of the students ar
under training and thousands of tn
public school lads and university under
Yfpduates have gone into the army o
thp navy The parks Of London ar
1Iied each night Of the week will
marching, drilling bands of men, cage
20 learn the rudiments of the soldier ;
Work, 90 that they may take up tn
reel trimming later.
wffIn the schools of the kingdom tn
students attend their classes in KHAKI
uniforms, ready to leave the classroom
for the drill ground. The government
- adopted q general policy in regar
to these students. Those who enter tn
army from the public schools are, as {
rule, given snon-commissions while thu
university men are given commissions
II they can pass the examinations.
In spite Of her treme ndous losses
France is not q nation of mourning, de
clared Colonel Fukushima.
France Nation Of Widows
tqsHIn France the statement of a fel
low traveller that France is the nation
Of widows' kept coming back to M
time after time as passed through thu
cities and villages, and noted the hun
dreds and thousands of women in tn
mourning garb of widow. Yet thu
country as o whole is not in mourning
~ There is q cheer and confidence
noticeable everywhere, up along thu
fohting line, where the people are bus!
with their crops and their little bust
nesses way to the south where they are
striving TO keep pace with the demand
Of the country for munitions, for food
for the thousand and one things thu
army needs. And even the widows il
their mourning clothes evinee a sort o.
paddened pride in that they have paiC
the last great price that love of country
can demand. They have sent out to di,
FOR France their husbands, their lovers
brothers, fathers and sons, and haV,
been glad TO do so.
Recruiting Easy In France
In France there has been no trouble
about the recruiting. The system o.
transcription which was in force at thu
outbreak Of the war had made France
ready for the first great strain of tn
conflict. She bore the brunt while Eng
land and Russia were getting ready
She IL still bearing the brunt of thu
nebting on land, and she asks nothing
h6tter than TO bear the bTunt through
70 the bitter end, II by doing so sh'
can crush the foe at the last"