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Title: A staff officer's scrap!book during the Russo-Japanese war
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Hamilton, Ian, Sir, 1853-1947
Subjects: Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1905
Publisher: London : Edward Arnold
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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man, left to himself, reviews the agonyof mind through which he has just passed and realisesthat his affection for his family is so strong that it iscalculated to interfere with his whole-hearted per-formance of his duty as a soldier. He dreads lest histhoughts might wander to his beloved ones when hismind should be entirely concentrated upon how hecan best serve the interests of his country. Hetherefore kills his wife and his child. The audienceapplaud the act with wild enthusiasm, regarding itas sublime and almost superhuman. A policeman comes in by chance and discovers thedeath of the wife by the blood oozing from beneaththe blanket. When, however, he fully understandswhat has happened and for what motive, he is so lostin admiration that he cheerfully resigns his chance ofmaking a name for himself by taking the young manprisoner, and bestows upon him instead his warmcongratulations. CoAL-MiNES, January Ibth, 1905.—To-day beingthe Japanese New Year, I went to a feast with General
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Nakamtjra Encounters Santa Claus 303 Kuroki. There were no speeches, but every one wasvery cheery and kind. The bandsmen, dressed asEuropean women, came in again, and danced a Lancerswith others dressed as Chinamen, officers, etc. Thecostumes were very strange. One Httle girl had towhair down her back ; her face painted white ; a redstraw hat and black stockings. Another had a whitestraw hat with a white feather sticking out of it. Iwas touched by the kindness of the waiter, who talks alittle English. He saw several officers egging thesepseudo females on to come and pour me out some wine.So, being afraid I might make a fool of myself, he came,and while pretending to brush away some grains ofrice, whispered in my ear, Do not be deceived—theyare only bandsmen dressed up as women. A deputation of Chinamen came to wait upon Kurokito-day, and said that in the last fifty years so mild awinter as the present has never been experienced.Putting this together with the phenomenally lightrain i

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