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BANZAI!
"That's the Japanese _Satsuma_, Togo's _Satsuma_!"]
BANZAI!
BY
PARABELLUM
LEIPZIGTHEODOR WEICHER, PUBLISHER
NEW YORKTHE BAKER & TAYLOR CO., SALES AGENTS33 EAST 17TH STREET (UNION SQUARE)
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BYTHEODOR WEICHER
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BYTHE BAKER & TAYLOR CO._All rights reserved_
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, LONDON
Published, January, 1909
THE TROW PRESS, NEW YORK
CONTENTS
PAGE
FOREWORD vii
INTRODUCTION ix
CHAPTERI.--IN MANILA 1
II.--ON THE HIGH SEAS 34
III.--HOW IT BEGAN 49
IV.--ECHOES IN NEW YORK 61
V.--FATHER AND SON 69
VI.--A NIGHT IN NEW YORK 77
VII.--THE RED SUN OVER THE GOLDEN GATE 96
VIII.--IN THE BOWELS OF THE EARTH 105
IX.---A FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR BALANCE 121
X.--ADMIRAL PERRY'S FATE 142
XI.--CAPTAIN WINSTANLEY 171
XII.--ARE YOU WINSTANLEY? 185
XIII.--THE REVENGE FOR PORTSMOUTH 192
XIV.--ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WHIRLPOOL 206
XV.--A RAY OF LIGHT 211
XVI.--THROUGH FIRE AND SMOKE 217
XVII.--WHAT HAPPENED AT CORPUS CHRISTI 228
XVIII.--THE BATTLE OF THE BLUE MOUNTAINS 243
XIX.--THE ASSAULT ON HILGARD 272
XX.---A FRIEND IN NEED 286
XXI.--DARK SHADOWS 295
XXII.--REMEMBER HILGARD 306
XXIII.--IN THE WHITE HOUSE 312
FOREWORD
Every American familiar with the modern international political horizonmust have experienced a feeling of solid satisfaction at the news that aformidable American fleet was to be dispatched to the waters of thePacific, and the cruise of our warships has been followed with intenseinterest by every loyal citizen of our Republic. The reasons thatrendered the long and dramatic voyage of our fleet most opportune areidentical with the motives that actuated the publication of thistranslation from the German of a work which exhibits a remarkable graspof facts coupled with a marvelously vivid power of description. It is nosecret that our ships were sent to the Pacific to minimize the danger ofa conflict with our great commercial rival in the Far East, if not toavert it altogether, and _Banzai_! it seems to me, should perform asimilar mission. The graphic recital, I take it, is not intended toincite a feeling of animosity between two nations which have everyreason to maintain friendly relations, but rather to call the attentionof the American people to the present woeful lack of preparedness, andat the same time to assist in developing a spirit of sound patriotismthat prefers silent action to blatant braggadocio. That the PacificOcean may become, in truth, the Peaceful Ocean, and never resoundto the clash of American arms, is the devout wish of one whobelieves--implicitly--with Moltke in the old proverb, _Si vis pacem,para bellum_--If you wish for Peace, prepare for War.
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