But The Japanese War
Office Could Not See The Point I Tried To Make, And The General Staff
Wrote A Letter In Reply Asking Why I Had Not Directed My
Communication To General Fukushima, As It Was Not The Secretary Of
War, But He, Who Had Taken The Articles.
The fact that they were
being issued without any return being made, did not interest them.
They passed cheerfully
Over the fact that the articles had been
stolen, and were indignant, not because I had accused a Japanese
general of pilfering, but because I had accused the wrong general.
The letter was so insolent that I went to the General Staff Office
and explained that the officer who wrote it, must withdraw it, and
apologize for it. Both of which things he did. In case the
gentlemen whose inventions were "borrowed" might, if they wished,
take further steps in the matter, I sent the documents in the case,
with the exception of the letter which was withdrawn, to the chief of
the General Staff in the United States and in England.
In importance after the bed, cooking kit, and chair, I would place
these articles:
Two collapsible water-buckets of rubber or canvas.
Two collapsible brass lanterns, with extra isinglass sides.
Two boxes of sick-room candles.
One dozen boxes of safety matches.
One axe. The best I have seen is the Marble Safety Axe, made at
Gladstone, Mich. You can carry it in your hip-pocket, and you can
cut down a tree with it.
One medicine case containing quinine, calomel, and Sun Cholera
Mixture in tablets.
Toilet-case for razors, tooth-powder, brushes, and paper.
Folding bath-tub of rubber in rubber case.
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