23/28 As the Japanese said, it was this "flying telephone" that enabled Oyama to manipulate his forces as handily as though he were playing a game of chess. It was in this war, too, that the Mikado's soldiers strung the costliest of all telephone lines, at 203 Metre Hill. But the climb had cost them twenty-four thousand lives. Every fourth American farmer is in telephone touch with his neighbors and the market. Iowa leads, among the farming States. |