CHAPTER II

Japanese Study of the Russian Army--Remarkable Confidential Paper--Concise and Accurate Estimate--Incapacity of the Russian Officer--Lack of Discipline--Kuropatkin “Not to be Feared”--Necessary to Frighten the Russian Soldiers--Contempt for the Cossack.

The Japanese Soldier and Russian Opinion--His Patience, Self-restraint, Ingenuity and Courage--Russian Deductions Mainly Wrong--Theory Falsified by Fact.