"If I may not like, I shall at least be driven to admire." "To talk of bravery when one speaks of that war," the General remarked, "seems invidious, for it is my belief that throughout the whole of the Japanese army such a thing as fear did not exist.

They simply did not know what the word meant.

But I shall never forget that the only piece of hand-to-hand fighting I saw during the whole time was a cavalry charge led by Prince Maiyo against an immensely superior force of Russians.

Duchess," the General declared, "those Japanese on their queer little horses went through the enemy like wind through a cornfield.

That young man must have borne a charmed life.