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Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
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s with theJapanese. Every general of brigade in the fieldis connected by wire with his divisioncommander, and the generals of divi-6-3 sion are in touch by telegraph or tele-phone with the corps commanders.The necessity of sending aides in everydirection with dispatches and reportsis a thing of the past. Through thetelephone system the commander-in-chief can communicate with all hissubordinates, and where two or moreof these subordinates are engaged inthe same movement, they can keep intouch with one another and developthe plan in absolute unison. There is something almost humor-ous in the idea of the commander of aregiment calling up by telephone abrother officer commanding anotherregiment some wild night among theManchurian hills and asking him if heis ready for some desperate charge,just as one might ask a friend to meethim at supper after the theatre; butwhere victory or death hang in thebalance, the knowledge that the otherman is ready is worth much. By thus 474 CASSIERS MAGAZINE
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SIGNALLING IN WAR SERVICE 475 applying modern methods of electricalcommunication, the effective strengthof the Japanese Army in the field ismuch greater than its size would indi-cate. The work of their signal corpsis largely the work of the electrical en-gineer. Visual signals for communi-cation in the field, except in isolatedinstances, have been relegated to sec-ondary place. The Japanese, with their naturalability for adaptation and develop-ment, would not tolerate any methodof communication but that whichwould bring the most distant outpostof Manchuria within a few minutes ofTokio, and enable the Mikado tomaintain touch with his troops. Theresult has been seen all through thepresent war with Russia in the evolu-tion of the Japanese Army, which inthe complete subordination of its oftenwidely separated parts, and the abso-lute and instant control exercised bythe commander over the whole field ofoperations, shows a mechanical accu-racy of movement and direction thatseems either insti

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