Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-01-26

total approximately $4,000. More
than 100000 Jap soldiers are now
isolated through action of General
Macarthur and the Pacific fleet in
island pockets, removed from bat
tie, relief or rescue. The war de-
partment says that the Japs are
nowhere near the bottom of the bar
rel in fighting reserves, and can
equip and train 100000 more SOL
diers without seriously affecting war
production manpower reserves. This
does not include the added millions
who might be recruited" from SUBJ
ject nations.
Comparison of the average Japa-
nese soldier with the average Amer
lean shows the Jap much smaller
man physically. He is S feet 3
inches tall and weighs 11712 pounds.
He can lift $50 pounds with his feet
together, bringing the weight to his
knees, to shoulder and then to his
back. The average American SOL
der is about feet 8 inches tall
and weighs AS pounds.
Military training of the Jap
soldier begins at the age of eight
years along with his regular edu-
cation, if at that time he is men,
tally and physically fit. Educa-
tionally the background of the
typical japanese professional SOL
der is as high as that of the typ
ical American fighting man. The
regular professional Jap soldier
has had the equivalent of two
years of high school education,
which equals the median level of
the average American soldier in
this war.
Able to read and write in Japan
is 1916 per cent of the adult popula-
ton and between 40 and so per cent
of all Japanese soldiers have studied
English, while between 20 and rs
per cent speak English efficiently.
The cunning of the Japanese is in
Dictated in their employment of ruses
in their operations. A few encoun-
tered to date include employment
of lighted cigarettes, firecrackers,
barking dogs and moving vehicles
to lead defenders to believe the
main attack would be made; use of
the English language to confuse our
soldiers; use of the name of certain
individuals and when the person ad-
dressed showed himself he was shot;
use of BOBBY traps on dead Allied
and Japanese troops to detonate
when the body was moved; placing
a dead Allied soldier in a conspicu-
GUS place with an automatic weapon
covering it. Thus when Allied troops
attempted to remove the body, they
were shot; when badly wounded, or
apparently dead, Japanese troops
have produced hand grenades from
their clothing and attempted to kill
medical personnel going to their
aid; use of the white flag of truce
to get close to Allied troops.
Japanese CONSUMPTION Laws.
Peacetime CONSUMPTION of Japan
csc calls for two years of military
service for all males between the
ages of II and 40 except for phys
ically unfit and those guilty of GER
tain crimes. Military training be-
gins with physically able-bodied
children at. the age of eight (third
grade pupils) who get at least two
hours of drill weekly. Army youth
soldiers, IA and Is years, begin an
apprenticeship in military training
and when they become of age they
are rated by the army as superior
privates. Later they are made into
lance corporals and, upon gradua-
ton from school, become corporals.
After six years service the corporal
may become sergeant-major and
upon ten years service he is pro-
NOTED to warrant officer.
One of the distinguishing charac-
teristics of the Japanese soldier is
his hardness, and special patrols,
starting at midnight, have been
known to cover go miles by the next