The kind of slaughter and violence that we have seen in this war, was in my experience very rare during the Russo-Japanese war. In modern war, the whole people are mobilized. Hence the majority of the troops correspond to the people as a whole. An army in which scandals and atrocities occur in great numbers, must surely reflect a decline in public morality?
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Permalink to quote #3 As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.
Permalink to quote #5 I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.
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