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JAPAN AND THE WAR.
RESENTMENT AGAINST-GERMANY
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TSINGTAU-AND AFTER,
The following leading article on Japan's attitude to the great war is quoted from a recent issued the Japanese Chronicle (Kobo) :-
DESTITUTION IN BELGIUM.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE HONGKONG
DAILY PRESS."]
SIR-I hope you will grant me space to
I
rages in Belgium, the use of poisonous gas, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the other incidents which have marked out this war from all modern wars. At the same time there have been innumerable articles in praise of German strategy and in admira tion of the strength and power displayed by Germany. As we have said, this has sy few words about the Belgians still in become more evident since the fall of Belgium. The admirable efforts of the Tsingtau. If the position be regarded im-National Committee for Belich in Belgium partially, it must be admitted that such are going a long way to avort famine, but an attitudo is but natural. The organisa- tion of the Japanese Army is based on that if the million-and-a-half destitute Bel To any one whớ recalls the unfriendly of Germany, and German successes in thegians une to be kept alive the National and sometimes extremely antagonist.c field are not unnaturally regarded as the Committee must have yet further support. tone adopted by the greater part of the justification of Japan's policy of cou
The only conceivable cause of doubt in Japanese Press towards Germany for the |structing her military forgaon Gorman last fifteen years, it is curious to note the lines. That Germany should prove the matter must lie in a mere weariness in change that seems to have cone about superior to Russia in a struggle in the well-doing, produced not by any intellec» sino Tsingtan fel. It was natural that West is, apart from the political_effects interest in the war should have declined involved, a natural corollary to Japan's tual difficulty but by such wholly unintel from the time that the German colony on access in the East with an army trained lectual things as time and fatigue, Chinese soil was occupied by Japanese on similar finx. Again, the highest mili think, therefore, the best way of prevent troops, and Japan's participation in the tary officers in this country were taught great conflict became necessarily more the elements of strategy by German ing any possible neglect, of so great a mat-- passive than active, but, to judge by the officers, who supecoded in making many ter is to repeat once more the great truths comments of certain of the Japanese news- firm, frieuds among Japanese military men upon which rested the whole original claim," papers, all the sins of Germany have been and these are naturally much interested not so much on our sympathy as on our purged by the transfer of her Far Eastern from an expert point of view in watching common honesty. The simplicity and outpost to the hands of Japan. Perhaps how the theories laid down are worked out enormity of the Belgian story can best be this is to be regarded as untural. The in petice. For awhile the loading set forth, perhaps, in four truisms, ali crime of which Germany was guilty in Japanse newspapers published occasion il toweringly self-evident, Japanese eyes was that, having joined articles, evidently from the hands of Russia and Franco in warning off Japan Japanese military officers, in which the from the mainland of China, che seized lint may be called the point of view of the opportunity a year or two later the German military expert, and in these pusses herself of a port is Bhuntung, and articles the strategy of the Allies did not that thus she gave Bussin the opportunis; revive much praise Apparently atteu to seize Port Arthur, which Japan hadtion was called to the dissertations as been induced to vacata on the plen of the lung womanhat quiriendly towards the necessity of presheving the integrity of Allies, and tending to give both a false in China. A politica) manœuvre, which thus pression of the positiou and to reflect on put the territorial integrity of China 2: the Governand for intervening in a dis- a different footing according as it was pute on the weaker or less expable side. threatened from the East or the West, was At any rate they disappeared for awhile, calculated vise neither Russia nor hut we antice that similar articles on the Germany in the estimation of the military situation in Europe are again Japanese.
[being published, evidently written by Japanese military experts. As against the inclination of the Army to view Germany's military proceedings with a favourable ys muy he set the influence of the Navy, which, being organised on British line tokes Bsimilarly favourable view of British naval samtczy, but the influence of the Navy on public opinion is far legs than that of the Army.
It has always been maintained by those who, like the late Captain Brickley, pra fessed to represent the Japanese view, that Japan was more resentful concerning Germany's participation in the advice of Three Powers than as regards the other two Governments whe participated there. in The Japanese, it was said, "could understand the motives jofianeing Russia and France, for it was evidently natural that the former should desire to exclude warlike and progressive people like the Japanese from territories contiguous t mur borders, and was also natural that France in the East should remain true to her alliance with Russin in the West. But HOME Germany, wholly uinterested in the ownership of Manchuria, and by profes sion a warm friend of Japan, seemed to have joined in robbing the latter of the fruits of her victory simply for the sake of establishing some shadowy title to Russin's goodwill" Thus Captain Brink- Hey, a writer who certainly did what ho sould in the Japan Mail and elsewhere not to lot Japanese forget the retrocession incident, firstly as it affected Russia and secondly as it related to Germany. As a sity for any jogging of the aenary of the Japanese in this subject. It was keen enough, a the comments of the Japanese Press concerning Germany and ber policy were at times so extreme that on more than one occasion the attention of the Japanes
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among the tramway lines and lamp-posts of a life like our own; if there be anyone who does not feel that to be caught napping about Belgium is like being caught robbing one's mother on her death-bed; there still remains a sort of brutal compassion for bodily pain, which has been half-admitted here and there even by the oppressors themselves. If we do not, do a great deal more even than we have already done, it may yet be said of us that we loft it to the very butchers of this nation to seo tha it did not-bleed-to-death
I therefore plead for furthor help for the. Members of the National Committee whe have taken this duty upon themselves. All subscriptions can be addressed to the Treasurer at Trafalgar Buildings, Trafal gar Square, Landon, or to Local Com mittees where they have been formed.-- Yours faithfully
G. K. CHESTERTON, Overroads,
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5th August, 1915.
WAR. FORCED UPON
GERMANY."
EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY.
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How often have we been told by Gor newspapers during the last twdre mouths that this tucible war was forced- apou Germany and how quexpectedly is rame over her?
First, of course, the more badness of the story is almost too big to be bold in the mind. There have been stories of a wemaa or a child actually robbed of reason for life by the more coular sluck of some a But what about the following inct which volting cruelty do in their presence, proves that Germany was already preparing There was really a danger of some for war in the year 1913, 18 months before thing of the hard paralysing our the declaration According to officiat protest against the largest and, by the figures, contiuned in the last Anmal help of God, the last of the crimes of the Report of the Director of the United Prussian Kings. The onlookers might have | States Mint," Germany imported in the been struck into a surt of gibbering imbe year 1913. cn balance gold of a value - yf ility and even amiability, by the fill and £74,000,000, while the import in the pre- indefensible finality of the foul stroke. Wading years seldom exceeded £8,000,000. had no machines that could measure the stunning directness of the blow from hell We could hardly realise an enormous pub
The amount of £74,000,000 represents the gold production of South Africa during two years, and appears all the more significant lo act which the actor did not wish to ex
as the other countries in 1913, with the ex- euse, but only to execute. Yet such as coption of France (importing $23,000,009) set was the occupation of Belgium; almost and Great Britain (importing £13,000,000) the only act in history for which there was gained only very small amounts of gold.. quite simply and literally nothing to heThe United States of America and Austria- said. Bad history is the whole basis of Hungary even lost some gold, the former Prussia but even ip bad history the about £5,500,000, the latter £2,500,000, a Prussians could find no precedent and proof that Germany did not let her ally palliation: and the more intelligent Pray into the secret and allowed Austria sians did not try. To the natural inclination of military
A few were so foeble Hungary to reduce its stock of gold. As officers towards the school in which they
minded as to say they hard found danger. the foreign exchanges in the year 1912 ous documents in Brussels, as if what they were quoted against Germany, the acqui- received their training must be added th
had done could posibly be excused by things sition of such a formidable stock of gold professional class which has obtained its
they did not know when they did it. This as £74,000,000 in one year must have been instruction in. Gerny or ou
methods. Medical tuition, as is well
almost piteous lapse in argument was, not very heavy expense-Financial Times. known, is given in the Tokyo University however, covered up by the cleverer Pru in the German language. A considerable sine as quickly as might be. They pro- part f the abla transactions of the Univer.ferred to stand without a rag of reason on
It is to
them than with such a rag as that. Before sity is published in German Germany that the majority of Japanese we come to the monstrous material suf- studente go when they leave Japan to com-fering, there is in the existing situation an abstract unreason, nay, an abstract ju plete their education abroad. The larger number of professors in the variousity, which the brain of man must not Universities have studied in Germany, bear. A nightmare must not abide to th
end. The tiniest frace of Prussian victory where they have imbibed those ideas f the supremacy of the State which have that remains will make us think of some ben so strenuously inenicated during the thing, which is not to be thought of: of last thirty years. Japanese political something like the victory of the beasts
cosomy is German, It was to Germany that I went when compiling a constitu tion for Japan. Even the official trang- slation of the term for the legislative assmbly is "Diet" and not Parlia If everything be taken into con
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Second, it must be remembered that this murder has been done upon a people of such proximity and familiety that there cannot be any mistake about the matter. There is some shadowy justification for the
Government was drawn to the matter by sideration, therefore, it is perhaps sur-comparativo indifference in the wrongs f
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THE "SCRAP OF PAFER."
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very remote people: for it is not easy for prising that when Japanese statesmen
us to guess how much slavery shocks a were contemplating an alliance, it should Now all this is changed. With the pass have been with Britain, organised on
negro or cannibalism a connibal. But the ing of Tsingtau into the hands of Japan wholly different political and administra. innkeepers and shopkeepers of Ostend feli the resentment against Germany seems to tive lines, rather than with Germany, with exactly as the innkeepers and shopkeepers have been sonsibly modified if it has not which there were so many points of like of Dover would feel. We have to imagine completely passed away. It is evidently ness and agreement, The reason in all prehistoric cruelty coming suddenly being succeeded on one hand by an admire probabity is to be found in the political upon a scene which was civilised and al-absence from 8.9.15 to 8.10.15, tion of Germany's military prowess and on
mistake Germany made in seizing Tsing-most commonplacs. Imagine tigers break- the other by apprehension regarding the tan, which not only rendered her suspecting out of the Zoological Gardens and cat fats of Tsingtau if the Entente Powers in the eyes of Japan, but was an invasioning all the people in Albany Street; ima- should fail to pove victorious. It is im- of a field which Japan felt ought to be gine Red Indians exhibited at Olympia probable that the pessimistic utterances to reserved for her own exploitation rather literally scalping every passer-by from that BEER.Which such politicians as Messrs. O-ukai than for that of a Western Power place to Hammersmith Broadway: ima and Usui, in attacking the Government, regards Germany's position in Europe, it gine Jack the Ripper crowned king of have rently given utterance are largely is naturally difficult it not impossible for Whitechapel and conducting his execu held. The idea that Japan stands in a
the Japanese to regard it from the same tions in broad daylight oustide the Tubs critical position, because of the Meagre point of view as that of the peoples-
the station at Aldgate; imagine as much as- prospects of the Allied Powers winning other Allied Powers. To the latter thyou can of what is violent and contradic & final victory over Germany," or that as struggle is one of 19fe or death. freedom tory is an over-turn of all modern life by "the conclusion of peace in favour of the or servitude. To the Japaness it is merely troglodytes; and you are still falling short Athel Powers is out of the question, a struggle for political supremacy among of this fearful Belgian scene in that fami Japan will be refused permission to take a group of Western Powers which have liar Belgian scenery. It is idle to talk of part in the pence confereuse and must sur hitherto ruled the world between them. exaggerations or misrepresentations about reader to Germany, or fight, is so absurd As to the political alliance which Japan case so close to us. that the utterance of such opinions has with one of thoia Powers, she wil interesting chiefly as showing the lengths loyally fufil the terms it imposes upon to which party feeling may carry politi-her; he action since the outbreak of war cians in Japan. But while such opinions proves her sincerity in this respect. Morsmore invent such are by no means general, it is apparent on
can hardly be expected. i the Japanese all hauls that the Japanese take up a Press and the Japanese people regard the very detached attitude in discussing the couflict from the position, more or less, situation in Europe. In reading many of of detached spectators, this is only what the comments appearing in the Japanese is to be expected in the circumstances.
Third, this people we have heard of Press it is difficult to keep in mind that Japan is joined with the Allied Powers
daily have endured this unheard of thing; and endured it for us. There are count- whose strength and capacity are so lightly. estimated, Hostility to Germany and ANOTHER HYMN OF HATE. less cases for compassion among the be German policy, so evident for years past,
wildering and heartrending by-products of has ceased to find expression is the verna
I do not hate the greasy Turk who stabs this war: but this is not a case for com cular Pres, where it was formerly most me with a rusty dirk, He thinks he is passion. This is a case for that mere work- noticeable, which instead criticises with within his rights, he acts according to his ing minimum of a sense of honour that considerable severity, not to say asperity, lights. He had no chance to learn the makes us repay a poor man who has ad vanced his last penny to post a letter we the inability of the Allies to break through lore of etiquette on Turkish shore o the German lines on the West or to resist chance to con the laws and rules of war have forgotten to stamp. In this respect So when he Belgium stands alone; and the claims even the onslaught of the German forces on the fars in the German schools. East. The impression to be derived from stabs me with his dirk I deftly punch that of other Allies may well stand aside til such articles and utterances is that in the heathen Turk, or carve him into narrow
she is paid to the uttermost farthing. opinion of the Japanese the Allies have strips, no words of rancour on my lips. I There has been self-sacrifice everywhere Leen weighed in the balance and found do not hate the howling Han who shootsele; but it was self-sacrifice of individuals, wanting that is, they have neglected tone with his tea-feet gun. Quite candidly each for his own country: the Serbian make themselves strong. Under existing
he comes to slay, all in the good old dying for Sorbia, or the Italian for Italy. cutalitions of international relations, fashioned way, and does not argue, as he But the Belgian did not merely die for Bays a Japanese officer who writes a book shoots, and blows me promptly from my Belgium. Belgium died for Europe. Not entitled The Next War, "justice and boots, that he but makes an effort sane only was the soldier sacrificed for the humanity are in effect of no importance to raise me to a higher plane. He does not nation; the nation was sacrificed for man among nations; the victor is in the right, say, I'm shooting you to help you to a kind. It is a sacrifice which is, I think, bronder view. I do not aid you with my quite unique even among Christians; and the vanquished in the wrong."
gun to a position in the sun." I do not quite inconceivable among pagans. If we THE GERMAN MODEL
hate the men who kill with honest purpose, even privately utter a murmur, or even While it would be a mistake to suppose with a will. But, oh! I hate the Teuton privately grudge a penny for binding the that the extreme expressions of dis host, who of High Culture make a boast, wounds of so solitary and exceptional appointment regarding the military power while sioning worse than Captain Kidd or martyr, we ourselves shall be something of the Allios represent a general opinion Henry Morgan ever did. I hate the fraud almost as solitary and exceptional. W in Japan, it is evident that the extraordin- who loudly rants of virtue while he drowns shall perhens be nearest to the state ri ary capacity and form shown by themy aunts. I hate the man, profoundly that unspeakable sociologist who persuad- Germans, and the remarkable state of learned, who sees my humble cottage burned his wife to partake of a simultaneous preparedness which the outbreak of wared, and quotes his scientists to show that suicide; and then himself cheerfully lived disclosed, bare exerted s profound in have no excuse for wo Far better ara
on the
Turks, and Huns villa rusty dirke and
Fourth: If there be anyone on this have, it is true been articles in the kicking guns, who kill while mankind earth who does not find the final success Japanese Press strongly condemning the darkly broods, and uffer no cheap plati- of such crime more than the mind a meilious by which Germany makes wILT, tuden-WALT MASON in the Daily bear; if there be anyone who does not feel the treatment of non-combatants, the out Chronicle
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