By the middle of November, 1865, 800,000 had been mustered out. One million men in army in May 1, 1865, were reduced to 65,000. This refers to the Union forces; on the other side, it is stated in a work entitled "The South," a publication giving the history of the Confederate Army, Alabama, minimum 93,000 (Vol. 2, p. 209). Arkansas, 50,000 (see Vol. 3, p. 308). Mississippi, 70,000 (Vol. 2, p. 422). North Carolina, 120,000 (Vol. 1, p. 485). South Carolina, 75,000 (see Vol. 2, p. 86). Tennessee, 115,000 (see Vol. 2, p. 517). Texas, 50,000 (see Vol. 3, p. 504). Virginia, 125,000 (Vol. 1, p. 121). Total, 745,000. From other sources: Georgia, 120,000; Louisiana, 55,000; Florida, 15,000. Total, 190,000. Kentucky (Vol. 1, p. 295), 30,000; Maryland (Vol. 1, p. 205), 20,000; Missouri (Vol. 9, p. 236), 50,000; West Virginia (Vol. 1, p. 388), 7,000. THE COST OF WORLD WAR. COST OF WAR IN MONEY TO APRIL, 1919, WAS $21,800,000,000 TO UNITED STATES, AND IN LIVES Figures unofficial, except for United States, British Empire, France and Italy. No figures available for Greece, Japan, Portugal. British figures include Navy. 1,350,000 GERMANS KILLED IN WAR. GENEVA, June 24.-(By Associated Press.)-Recent statistics published in Germany on that country's war losses state that 1,350,000 men were killed. There are today 520,000 war widows, 1,130,000 war orphans and 500,000 maimed or consumptives supported mostly by charity. "And know that Freedom's not a gift CHAPTER V ITALIAN HEROES REACH TOKYO (From the Herald of Asia) (The following is a full report of the speech delivered by Comm. Z. H. Zolpicelli, formerly Italian Consul-General at Canton, at the reception held at Hibiya Park on June 6 in honor of the Italian airmen, Lieutenant Masiero, Lieutenant Ferrarin and their mechanics. The speech was interpreted by Professor Torao Taketomo of the Keio University and was decidedly a great success.-Ed.) Ladies and Gentlemen: You have been waiting a year to hear d'Annunzio in Tokyo, but you know he cannot come. As a son of Magna Graecia, like d'Annunzio, I rise to give a brief explanation of the Rome-Tokyo raid. I am sure that my words uttered here on the shores of the Pacific will be endorsed by the poet on the shores of the Adriatic who, like a vestal of old, is keeping alive the sacred fire of Rome. I have waited thirty-eight years for this hour and I speak in the fullness of time. The descendants of the Roman legionaries have come to meet the samurai of Japan. There are, alas, two empty places; the bodies are in Persia, but the souls of Gordesco and Grassi are here with us at this hour, and we must speak as if they heard us. On the breast of Gordesco a letter was found; it was from our King to your Emperor. Faithful unto the last! I have heard that you intend to consecrate two memorials to them in Japan. Inscribe on them these words: ...maneat nostros ea cura nepotes." (Let this purpose be entrusted to our descendants.) Virgil says these words were spoken 3,000 years ago in Albania, to seal the covenant between two peoples. Let those words ever remind the people of Japan that those two young lives were sacrificed to cement the alliance of our two nations. The call of the East has been felt in Italy since the dawn of her history as the call of destiny. The fatalism of historical laws overpowers rulers and peoples and brushes aside the puny efforts of man. Rome that destroyed Carthage and Jerusalem has been for nearly 2,000 years the centre of a Semitic religion. Two thousand years ago, after having conquered the West, eagles of Rome flew to Mesopotamia. Then in the hour of triumph Virgil, with the prophetic insight of the poet, saw the true mission of our race. Possessed by the spirit of prophecy, unconscious of the full meaning of his own words, he uttered the famous lines: "Jam redit et virgo, redeunt saturnia regna; "Jam nova progenies coelo demittitur alto." (Now the Virgin comes, the Golden Age returns; Now a new generation of men descends from high Heaven.) Even then he saw that the future mission of Rome was to bring the moral and religious civilization of Asia to barbarous Europe. A few years passed and the Apostles of Jesus came to Rome. It was not hazard which sent the fishermen of Galilee to the eternal city. They found there the faculty of organization and the spirit of leadership of our race which enabled them to spread all over the world the worship of two Asiatics. Now all Europe and America worship the Son of Man and more than half the Blessed amongst women. When you were accomplishing your Imperial Restoration, the Rome of the Caesars and of the Pontiffs started on a new mission which we hoped would not be unworthy of the past. Now, after having won the greatest victory in European history, the new eagles of Rome have flown to Tokyo. The latest poet of Italy, d'Annunzio, with the prophetic inspiration of Virgil, has sent here our aviators to bear the message of Asia, for the sun of Asia rises in Japan! What are the good tidings they must bring back? They must take back the sublime virtues and high ideals of Asia to Europe ruined by the war. They are the pioneers of our future mission to spread the spiritual culture of Asia all over the world. We drink a toast to Asia which shall be the hymn of Asia, and its people. It shall be drunk in water, the drink of Buddha and Mahomet, the drink which America, the youngest of the Goddesses, the new Hebe with the nectar, has restored to the welfare of mankind. We raise our voices here to the Spirit of Asia, the mighty land and its mighty children, to the great mother, Asia-our common mother. The Spirit of Asia is over there in the North where the swelling Spring currents of the Obi and Lena break the ice with a roar of thunder as they rush to the Arctic Ocean; it is in the South where the waves break in roaring surf on the shores of Ceylon; in the East in the whirl of the typhoon; in the West it sweeps over Arabian deserts in the simooon. It reigns on the silent snows of the Himalayas; it rolls the waters of the Yangtze and shapes the beauty of Fuji. It inspires the great works of her children, the dazzling beauty of the Taj Mahal and the peaceful serenity of the Kamakura Buddha. The Spirit of Asia raises to Heaven the thoughts of her children; and mankind is illuminated by the Vedas, the Sutras of Buddha, the words of Confucius, the Bible, the Ramayana, the Gospels, the Koran. and the poem of Rizal the Philippine martyr, whose soul was all sweetness the morning he was unjustly shot. The Spirit of Asia shines in the bright eyes of your dark haired women, enriching them with love and virtue. We find it in the mother of Moses; in Ruth when she said "Thy people shall be my people, thy God shall be my God"; in Sita; in the mother of Mencius: in Hung Fu Nu leaving all when she had found her hero; in Lo Ch'ang Kung Chu recovering her lost husband with the broken mirror; in Terute Hime, the woman of love and sorrow; we find it in the Marys under the cross of the Son of Man forsaken by all. It is the Spirit of Asia manifested in her great children, Rama and Krishna, Moses who heard the one God in burning bush, Rustem the Persian hero, Ali the Lion of God, Yoshitsune the Bayard of Japan, Yao Fei the Chinese patriot, Mahomet the prophet of Allah, Sakhyamuni attaining Buddahood under the sacred tree, and Jesus in his long agony on the cross praying for his enemies. It is these holy teachings and sublime examples which must be evoked for the betterment of mankind; and here in Japan we can find them still fresh in the lessons of recent times. In Port Arthur the first monument erected by the Japanese was to their dead enemies, the Russians, because they had died fighting for their own country. Therefore Banzai to Asia, Banzai to Japan is the cry of our aviators; Alala! PROSPECTS OF PEACE IN CHINA From the Herald of Asia On June 3 a manifesto was issued in the names of the four leaders of the South, including Tang Shaoyi and Sun Yatsen. It was expected that it would mark an epoch in the peace negotiations between North and South and remove the deadlock reached. True to this general expectation, the peace situation has begun to take a very hopeful turn. It is now reported that the manifesto has resulted in a frequent exchange of notes and calls between Wang Itang, chief northern delegate, and Tang Shaoyi, chief southern delegate. It is further reported that three fundamental peace terms have been agreed upon. In the opinion of the Osaka Mainichi, however, it is problematical whether this new peace movement is in accordance with the requirements of the times or whether it is a party move. But it is certain, says the Osaka Mainichi, that the new peace agitation is one of the important byproducts of the progress of the world. The peace negotiations now going on are said to be based upon the following terms: 1. That the cancellation of secret treaties between China and Japan should not be included in the peace terms, since Tuan Chijui and his followers are stoutly opposed to it. |