The troops in the North have a better opinion of Japanese valour than Japanese Teather. One man, noticing our boots, remarked upon their durability, and told tus that last year some Japanese gentlemen reviewed the troops at T'ungebou, and afterwards sent ten thousand pairs of boots as a present to the forces. ' Where are they now?" we asked. "Worn out Tong ago," was the reply, "they were very poor boots, not so good as our own cloth boots." And a comrade standing by, joined in: "Yes, they wore made of Kaoli chih (Corean paper)."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.