The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-12-22
jAPAN'S ARMY
 REFUSES CREED
 FIGHT AND DIE
we Are Human Bullets to Be Used," Officer
 Explains
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United PFesR Stan Cogrespomdene)
 Tlentsln (By Mall =. tUp) - II, Masak is . quiet, pleasant little chan with hofn-rimmed speotAclcS, and welRhs not more than 100 pounds. He started on military career and poor health made him give 1t up. But he carried on the traditions of Q military family when, gle-handed, he captured q Chinese gunbOat, s
 10 was during the early days of the hostilltles, before MNSAki'S father, Gen. Jlnsaburo . MasalEi, was acquitted in Tokyo of any connection with the February re- volt of last year. Young Masaki, junior official tn the Japanese foreign office, went from TientSin to the river mouth at TangkW and started . campaign by himself.
 In some manner he had obtained a pistol. Travelling was danger oNs then, He arrived at Tangku just as the Japanese were opening up on the mud forts there. Spying a small dory which had been abandoned by It's owner and oveT- come by patriotic arelor, MaSaki poled his way out to a small gum boat, clanahered aboard and shout ed.
 'sTn the name of the Japanese empire 1 demanded that you sur
 The crew, amazed at the sight of this civilian Scrambling upon tho deck and awed a bit by the pistol, grlhned sheeplShly and lot Masaki run up the Rising Sun flag. They knew they'd be taken anyway and this was more fun than being blown up by shells,
 Masaki Is not very talkative and says the gunboat episode wasn't 90 much" He Is adored by Japanese newSpaperMen, who say that MaSakl has performed other dangerous missions with the same moaeSty,
 Capt. Tatsuo Nishihara vas drinking lemonade in the bar at the Wagon hitS Hotel M Peiping and we got to talking about the Japanese attitude toward war,
 There is a proverb," he said, "@'an arrow can pierce Q stone It goes back to the story of the hunter iR ancient times who saw a tiger and shot at it with bow and arrow, When he went to get the animal he found that he had shot at a big stone, and that 1t wasn't a tiger at all, And tho arrow had pierced the stone,
 He went back and tried 1t again. But every time after that the arrow glanced off tho stone, He knew that only faith had made 1t possible the first time and once he realized he was shooting at a stone and not at a tiger the arrow had no effect"
 NlshihaFa, a young artillery of- ficef who soon afterward went back to Japan to train aMti-air- craft gUnnegS, slipped his drink and went oh>
 'rhat is why We can overcome such odds against us, It Is faith In our destiny. We are human bullets, I am a human bullet, My body lS only a bullet and I aM ready to have 1t used as such at any time, My body iS not itMpor- tant except that some day 1t may be of use that way, It iS for our Emperor"
 One ol tho trains which after the fighting took 10 hours or More for the Peiping- -TientSin run, nor- Mally a matter of three hours, was crowded but two soldiers, spying two pretty Japanese girls and thinking perhaps of future leisure hours, offered them their seats The girls smiled, accepted, e&- eNsea themselves for q moment and returned with their husbands The husbands bowed politely and calmly sat down in the vacated places.
 An infantry officer tola me this story, A private Soldier, hYNkio YaRaAgNehi, fighting at TSang- chow, killed four chinese het0Fe dying with a bullet through his heart, His elder brother heard of 1t, asked his captain if he could be excused a moment, went over to the body and said, ~YoN have died AoNly, I win aveNge you
 Three days later MaSarN YaMa~ gUeht ktllea six Chinese in haM<a- te-hand fighting and then was fatally wounded,
 Brother, I have kept My proM~ iSe,S he said, Long live the EaM~ AAfAnlN