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JAPAN AND SIBERIA.

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Tailroad problem was being postponed by Japan's opposition. and calling the Ambassadors attention to the work of General Takishima.

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Viscount Ishii returned to the Embassy in Washington and dis- patched a long code message to Tokyo which arrived there on a Sunday night. Mr. Lansing sent, a copy of his remarks to the United States Ambassador, Mr. Roland S. Morris, in Tokyo, On! Monday morning "Mr. Morris called at the Foreign Office, only to be informed that the Minister of Foreign Affairs could not see him for two or three days.

During these critical days of early November there developed a political storm in Japan. The

for war party was

defying America The business interests and peace statesmen, who learned for the first time of the activities of the Japanese Army in Siberia, sided with the United States. For three days the debate continued. and during this period no one knew whether there was war or peace ahead.

SET BACK FOR WAR PARTY.

But within four days the sane elements of Japan triumphed. The war party met its first great defeat at the hands of its own people. The Japanese Govern. inént telegraphed new orders to General Otani immediately. He was instructed to send back to Japan 35,000 soldiers. A few days later another order was sent to him in Vladivostock ordering The return of 17,000 men. Another order still was dispatched order. ing General Takishima to Tokyo.

For the time being it looked as if the victory in Japan over the war party was complete. but those whose who thought all difficulties were at an end under estimated in the influence of General Takishima. He was the chief politician of the Japanese railitary party. He was Japan's Ludendorff. When he arrived in Tokyo another political storm appeared. which resembled typhoon in its suddenness and effect. All the anti-American sentiment in Japan came to his support.

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By the Fest part of January, however, the "war party" had In La Revue (Paris) of March again appeared on the political 1-15. L.M. Dumas writes in simple, horizon. and had a sufficient clear style, and with intimate amount of influence with the psychological sympathy. of

Alsatian Tokyo Cabinet to block all the

Protestanti-m and eTorts of the United States, acting French Sentiment. The writer on behalf of all the other seems to be an officer of the Army Allies. to bring about an of Occupation, whose unit has agreement us to the reorganisa- been shifted from one to another tion und operation of the Alsatian city. One surmises that Tran-Siberian Railroad. The he is a very liberal-minded man Japanese military party had been theologically. bred in Roman working secretly in Siberia, des Catholic environment, like the pite erents of early November. educated French generally. Through financial and moral support of the Japanese. General Semenoff, the 28 year old Cossack. in Chita, was interfering with the transportation of supplies to the Czech-Slovak armies. Semenof was refusing, also, to recognise the Koltchak dictatorship. At one time the Czech Slovaks were

the on

point of attacking

Semenoff when the Japanese stopped the military trains.

The State Department in Washington was compelled again] to bring the issue of the operation of the Trans-Siberian Railroad to decision. Again the attention of the Japanese Government was called to the fact that a policy which the Allies had agreed upon five months previously was still undeveloped because of the opposition of Japan's war party.

At this time every Chamber of Commerce in Japan, every large importing and exporting house. every large financial institution. and

every statesman who had been working for Japanese- American friendship united in supporting that party in Japan which sought a solution for the difficult Russian railroad problem, and an agreement was reached-

is accounted irreligious. She promises freely now. At first changes will be in minor matters only. But the enforcement of her own standards will increase. Eventually religion will be rendered anemic. The soul of its fervor and its faith." Alsace will have yanished with Yet the overwhelming majority of Catholics still believe that they are regaining both a political and a religious fatherland.

The Germans, while merely coquetting with Catholicism, have impressed on the Protestants that up with Protestant Germany and their fate was absolutely bound its Lutheran Kaiser. If France revives religion at all "-said the Gerivan immigrants and pro- On the first day of our entrance into Alsace, I heard an officer let Pagandists-"she will remain fall. concerning the Alsatian Pro Roman Catholic. She will pre- testants, the sweeping declara-secute all dissent, as she did of old the Huguenots. Only with "They're all Boches." Again, in a railway carriage a

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So, when France came, some pair of native civilians sat among Protestants imagined themselves French officers. One of the two isolated, a hopeless minority in a remarked: Tis the Jews hare who know French best; in fact, Catholic nation. even political suspects. as the followers of a

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frank reply, such as he would pastor said frankly: But curand sincerity. When all dreams never have ventured to a German Preaching will be forbidden, our of independence fade, in uniform," I'm a Protestant my-liturgy altogether suppressed. self and I won't have is said the

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the Rev. George Hayton Hewit- But (as readers of the famous son," formerly chaplain at the birth, was forbidden to preach, but suffered to carry on the regular story. La derniere ecole will re-barracks, who was killed in the service otherwise. And after a call) the language has always Bulwark explosion that in the very brief time, the commandant been more German than French. Battle of Jutland nine chaplains went in person to announce to The more stolid peasant temper lost their lives and only, six him the lifting of the ban. Yet does not react easily to Gallic captains.

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In the capital, Strasburg, the venerable M. Gerold in the senior and leading Protestant clergy- the incident was skilfully exag-gaiety and offervescence. Ger- MEN'S DRESS FOR WOMEN man. For his pro-French utter- ances in war-time the German gerated to appear but part of a man rule is a half-century old,

A Bill has been introduced to TARANTULLE, and not a few born Alsatians are the State Legislature of Florida rulers silenced him, and also im-general and settled policy.

Alsace never was Germanised frankly. Germanic in posed a prison sentence-which

their making the proviso that "from for Ladies & child- officialdom, political, social and intellectual and after equal suffrage has been

Undercloth- established in Florida it shall be ren's Deutschland uber Alles!" re- entered his church again to preach mained as hateful as the personal a young school-mistress is a fine wear the wearing apparel of maning, now so much

A really pathetic confession by lawful for females to do and his first French sermon, the insolence of the German lieuten-human document, whole congregation stood up, as

ap-es now worn publicly by him." solemn homage to him and to ant. To the gruff "You are preciated only if perused in full, Should the Bill pase women in in demand. Stocked

Germans!" the peasantry always France.

While the village Protestants this particular State will be able President and Prime Minister replied: "No, we are Alsatians generally are only wondering to wear trousers.

If the desire took shape, never what measures will were formally welcomed, in the same edifice. One of a group of gain to be the football or the forced under French occupation, Yes, I realize. What will be officers, visiting the church next booty of contending nations, but my heart is sad over Ger come of me later I do not know.

to stand safely Bloof day, complained to the author of

and many's defeat. I love the Ger- I am conscious only of the or man literature. I could not help moment's crisis. But could not. its icy coldness," the utter lack independent like Holland

Switzerland--that was but it. I was so educated. and in trust be felt in my loyalty, in my of special decorations; yet the pastor had personally welcomed

own schools I felt that feelings of honour and duty? the two great French statesmen criticized for his coldness" this the German track ("in the Ger- versed in psychology, believes In the study of one partor, Alsace bad found happiness on The French writer, deeply to the city, as he was the ac- last autumn, the writer read an man furrow"). I wish she could such elements as he has pointed cepted head of the entire Pro- ante-bellum serinon, written just have followed it. I did not wish out to be among the most valuable testant clergy.

after the murderous Zabern in-her to become French. It pains for the creation of an ideal future Many austere churchmen have cident. He had felt it as scruples against any secular dis whiplash on Alsace, and he, too, I ashamed of it. But I cannot already indissolubly merged in ame. I do not conceal it, nor am Alsace, which he believes to be play in the House of God. But reared and plunged." He had break with my own Alsace, and France. One might go yet further, far more than that, mere joyous written, eg., "This funior lieuten wish to follow her-in sadness and propose to leave such an welcome is not the whole attitude ant is part of an organism whose but in loyalty. of Alsace. There is worry, some spirit is bad, whose sttitude, dis

Alsace, in absolute freedom and To a reminder how difficult her peace, to see some day, veritaps, in Japan with the militarists.fear, occasionally even terror. The policy of the former is based A Catholic priest talked frank-turbe us and that spirit should task must thus become, she for herself the value

privilege.

the understanding which was but recently announced by the Acting Secretary of State: Under this agreement the Trans-Siberiac Railway is to be operated under the direction of an Allied Board and under the protection of an Allied Military Staff. The Japanese. war party, for the present at least, is impotent, but recent reports from the Far East indicate that this party is still active and that it is a work on a new plan of invasion to begin in the spring, according to which the 52,000 troops which were withdrawn from Siberia last November and December are to

be sent back supported by 50,000

inore.

The great peace, leaders of Japan, however, are expected to

win in any, fight which develops

"

human.

Our

not only upon the question of ly of his own people. The pea- fealt in pastors of such courage suppressed tears:

vanish." The author sees no answered, after silence, with cinzenship, and to be

strength.

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