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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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