A LETTER FROM JAPAN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2626, 13 July 1904, Page 67

A LETTER FROM JAPAN.

Mr J. Whall. of Darfield, has received (says the Chmtchurch Press) the following letter from a friend who resides in Japan: — '"The war stiU goes merrily on, and I am pleased to say the Japanese are ha\ing decidedly the better of it. Mark mywords, they will go through the Russians like chain-lightning through a goo eberry buoh. Tho Russians are nothing but a lot of bullies and the Japanese know it. They have been doing nothing but try and bluff the whole time. They are tho mo.st corrupt nation on the face of the globe. I l>a\e had c ome experience with them in that ipspoct. and I found Alexeieff ju-t as big a loguo ;.s the lt-t of them. Ho w-js raptain of cno c>f th- 11 meu-of-war, aud 1 made a. ton tract Ua

supply them, and for every 300 roubles of goods the ship got, 200 roubles went into tho officers' pockets. There aio some men out here who ha 1^ made fortunes out of them. They ha\o not got the provisioning in Manchuria they are supposed to have; I have f'-ifiids over there, and received a letter from one of them the other day. and he says tltey are in a bad wa}'. Another friend of mine ha= returned heie after r>. business ti ip through Manchuria and Siberia, and hp tolls me that he met hundreds of Japanese there chested up a^ Chinese, and that it is \ery hard to tell thorn, as they look very like the Mongolians and Menehurmi*. It is these men who are clomo all the damage to tho lailv, ays, and tho Rus-!£ins think it is the Chine** bandits Me-seral of my mon from the club h&\P gone to the war. E\oiv able-bod-pil man in Japan is a so'dior. and a good one at that. The)" Pro very biave iron."