On the question of raising troops for an expedition to Europe, the Professor explains the necessity for sending only the elite of the Japanese army, men chosen from those who volunteer for foreign service. Tt has been said that an army of 500,000 Japanese in France would suffice, but the opinion expressed to the writer by Japanese military' experts is that 250,000 picked men would be sufficient' to meet the needs of the situation.
Buch an army would work best under a Japanese Commander, cooperating with the Generalissimo and keeping in the closest touch with the Allies. The Japanese would thus constitute a part of the Allied army, and at the same time' have scope for exercising its special qualities. The difficulty of sending supp! of guns, rifles, and ammunition so great a might be overcome by supplies being found by the Allies. any definite result, at some part or another of the long line of battle in Belgium and France. Although about a sixth part of France ig in the invader's hands, we are told by the authorities that the position is "satisfactory," which no doubt means that it might be worse, and also better. There very little news as to what is being done in that part of Franco behind the German linea, The Germans hold three of the most important manufacturing towns—Lille, Roa-paix and Tourooing—and are administering them after their own fashion, importing civilian officials, mending the roads, changing the signboards into German insoriptions, and allowing the French owners to work sugar refineries and coal mines on condition that they supply the invader with se much sugar and coal as he wante.
The Germans are stated to have helped themselves to all the wool and other raw material they could find at Roubaix and Tourcoing and to have sent it to Germany, where it will be made up into cloth for German army uniforms. Why the owner were foolish enough to leave quantities of wool in towns which they knew could not be defended is a mystery, for they can hardly, after the first few weeks of the war, have had any illusions about the rights of private property being respected by the Germans. What is still worse than this thieving, however, is the deliberate destruction of property.
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