Ve then went on to describe the different periods through which pan had passed to reach her pre~ sent status and how she had digested and adjusted herself to the new environments in which she liv He pointed out how Japan up and realized that she was ferior in spiritual and intellectual attainments and how she had taken the best from China's civilization and that of the continents of Europe and America, and adapted it to herself. The Japanese, he suid, had been accused of being shallow imitators and, though some were shy of being described thus, they were on a whole not afraid be: cause they were after all engaged in a great task of giving birth to a new state of civil Mason Saty AXD THE
Me, Tsurumi pointed out that with her progress, Japan's wealth had grown, schools and factories thad been established in every city and every district. In Tokyo, the pointed out to the Tt was pearance of lighted rooms: a number of powerful electric lamps. Hluminated the scenery from the front: others were arranged behind the battlements to light up the principal masses of the buildings and the gilded domes, and others were carefully sited to give an appearance of solidity to the structure by accentuating certain of the shadows. A number of powerful red lamps were placed about the structure to heighten the appearance lof the conflagration and to assis obtaining the final effect of out building. Each series of lamps was separately controlled through a rheostat, fo that the brightness of the various since of lighting could be varied at will. The amps and ewitchgear were lent by the Municipal Electvicky Department and were installed and operated under the supervision of Mx. R. L, Evans lof that department.
The musketry only was provided supers—a party of 20 men of the 2nd Border Regt., firing blank ammunition, under the control of Captain 3.' Smyth.
The remainder of the effects were obtained by fireworks, ignited elec~ trieally. After a series of experiniente, red, orange and yellow flares were devised, which burned for various lengths of time and gave different intensities of illumination, Other fireworks were devised simulate the appearance of shells Larsting and, by means of arrangements on the switchboards, the flash Jof the shell bursting was made to fappesr simultaneously with - the sound of the explosion, whilst the fred glow of afire started near the stine place a few seconds later. A Hfew smoke candles, carefully placed regard to tke direction of the wire, and operated the switchboards during the performances. with the mu 1812" was w A. Salt, m., Bandmaster T. Gilbert, of the 2nd Border Regt. The music had been ry carefully timed and the exact instants when the various effects of Jmusketry, guns firing, silence, Moscow set on fire, the height of the conflagration, and the final crashes Jond explosions were required to fit with the music, had been worked lout to a second or two. Once massed bands had reached a certain passage in the overture, the he board operators worked entirely by stop.vrateh to a carefully arranged timetable.
In orler to be able to hear the! bands through the noise of the bombardment, a microphone was installed under the conductor's platform Jand connected through a three-valve wireless amplifier to headphones shed in rear of!
Bandmaster Gil. to the musie, gave the Joperators the exact moment to lcommience work, and was realy to signal if the massed bands should happen to vary the tempo of the music. The microphone and amplifor were lent by the Kellogg [Switchboard and Supply Ca.
A fire engine and team from the Municipal Fire Brigade stood by jin rear of the building, in case the jetrveture really did catch fire. The model of the Kremlin, made of paint-Jed matshed: Zupported upon bamboo scaffolding, was designed by Mr. J. 1D. Watt, asdiitant architect to the Public Works Department of the Council, and was erected supervision, ug place very fast and one wing at the corner of the Tokyo station had every reas to that he was in some west-city. of Ameri with its tall and the ruch of the lent Roosevelt had and sensitive, but Mr, thought that they could not be sensitive because they had been brought in surroundings which sensitive both called for sensitiveness, They were
to the nation and to national life. They aspired and were determin. ed to avoid such dangers. Such sensitiveness had tended to impress fon the Japanese people the need to get together and organize a strong nation, If they met with success it was due to a strong nationalism: if they met with failure, it would be due to the same cause.
Japanese—nati reached a climax in 1904 when she went to war with Russia and also in 1915 when she presented her demand: to her neighbour and outraged a great nation, The world war opened her eyes and Japan changed her ways. She approached life in a critical state of mind, New literature was produced, Japan was gradually changing her policy towards the outside world. She was now shifting the worthy from the worthless, She was bound to go forward in years to come.
Mr. Tsurumi then mentioned the spread of education in Japan and said that in recent years Japan had cut down her illiteracy to less than five per cent. Schools were now plicated by over 99 per cut. ight against.one of the greatest enemies of imankind—ignoranee—the foundations of a modern Japan. There was an increase of Population because of the better
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