forward with a spool of wire. In this way and under fire of the Russian Russian hosts in a vast crescent, a hundred miles from end to end. By telephone set. If they held their position, two other soldiers ran wired to a general, and the five generals were wired to the great Oyama Of the seven million telephones in the United States, about two million were organized into fifteen divisions. Each group of three divisions was enabled Oyama to manipulate his forces as handily as though he were of Port Arthur lay at their mercy. But the climb had cost them playing a game of chess. It was in this war, too, that the Mikado's of Mukden, the silk-worm army, with a million legs, crept against the Whenever a regiment lunged forward, one of the soldiers carried a battlefield. As the Japanese said, it was this "flying telephone" that In the supreme emergency of war, the telephone is as indispensable, very city officials. In two days these were linked to long-distance wires; and in eleven days a two-thousand-line switchboard was in full working cannon, one hundred and fifty miles of wire were strung across the When the wire had been basted up this hill to the summit, the fortress soldiers strung the costliest of all telephone lines, at 203 Metre Hill. were at work. In one day there was a system of wires for the use of the behind it a glistening strand of red copper wire. At the decisive battle means of this glistening red wire, the various batteries and regiments nearly, as the cannon. This, at least, is the belief of the Japanese, trim. This feat still stands as the record in rebuilding. who handled their armies by telephone when they drove back the Russians. Each body of Japanese troops moved forward like a silkworm, leaving himself, who sat ten miles back of the firing-line and sent his orders. twenty-four thousand lives.