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t be drawn fromthem, neither could the troops engaged in subjugating them be freedfor service at the front. A great portion ofthe troops transported from China were not Mongols, but Chinese, whohad been recently fighting against e castle ofTakamatsu should be surrendered and the head of its commander,Shimizu Muneharu, presented to his conquerer. The arrogantand intolerant demeanour of Japanese students of Chinese philosophywho elevated the Middle Kingdom on a pedestal far abo

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