380 THE CHINO-JAPANESE WAR. 
The accountant staff does the clerical work under the intendant 
staff. 
The law staff does the work of our courts martial; after the manner, 
I believe, of the French system. 
The Ist reserve is used to raise the units from peace to war strength 
and to assist in the formation of depdts. 
‘The 2nd reserve is mobilised territorially and is used for garrison 
work and on the lines of communication. 
The Guards division, which is recruited throughout the Empire, has 
no 2nd reserve. The men who go to the 2nd reserve from the Guards 
join one of the six territorial divisions. 
We had an opportunity very soon after our arrival in Tokio of seeing 
a march past of the Guards division. It was on the Emperor’s birth- 
day; and though robbed of much of its splendour, owing to the 
absence of His Majesty at Hiroshima and the fact that all ranks were 
wearing undress uniform ready for active service, it was still a very 
fine sight to see a march past of 12 infantry battalions, each over 800 
strong. They were a very fine, sturdy looking lot of men and marched 
admirably. They were of course short as compared with our standards, 
but were a remarkably level lot. 
There were two points which struck one at once as curious at this re- 
view ; one was that the Imperial Prince in command, Prince Komatsu, 
was the only mounted officer at the saluting point. There were lots of 
officers there looking on, in full dress uniform, but allon foot. And the 
other point was that there was only one band. But this band showed true 
Japanese powers of endurance and went on unceasingly, playing the 
same few bars over and over again, whilst the whole division went by. 
Bands have only recently been started. There is a school for military 
music, and the Guards and 4th divisions have each a band, but no other 
division as yet. We were fortunate in finding a band with the head- 
quarters of the 2nd army (which was the army which we joined) which 
had been formed from the School of Music; and its members enter- 
tained us, not only with excellent music, but with some really first 
class acting during our stay at Kinchou. 
Now to return to the war. The remainder of the Sth division left 
Japan on the 8th August, landed at I'usan and marched from there to 
Seoul under General Nodzu, the division commander; and a mixed 
brigade of the 3rd division was sent to Gensan, but did not arrive 
until the end of August. General Nodzu’s command, which included 
for the present the troops sent to Gensan, was divided into the 
following detachments:—(i.) General Oshima’s brigade, which was the 
brigade originally sent to Korea. This was at the junction of the 
roads near Heizan, and consisted of five battalions of infantry, one 
squadron of cavalry, two mountain batteries, one engineer company 
and a medical detachment. (ii.) The Sakunei detachment consisting of 
six companies of infantry, one mountain battery, and a troop of cavalry, 
under General Tachimi. (iii.) The Gensan detachment, consisting of 
one infantry regiment, one troop of cavalry, and two mountain batteries, 
under the command of Colonel Sato. (iv.) The main column, which 
