The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-15
NO PEACE PARTY IN JAPAN.
japanese diet Grants IInme nse Sums
for the War.

for the War.
SAN FRANCISCO. March Is. 1S95.-The
steamship China, which arrived al one
O'Clock this morning brings the follow
ing correspondence of the United Press
from the ORIENT
TOXIC. March /. The temper of the
Japanese nation has been significantly
displayed in connection with an addition
al grant of 100, G0. 900 yon for the prose-
cution of the war. The original war
budget passed unanimous blythe Diet in
its extraordinary session last October
amounted to $50, O00. 900 yen. Two issues
of n have already been made. A
further issue of A, 900. 900 yen has TO be
made and the nation may at any mo-
ment find itself paying into the Treas
ury about twenty million yen monthly.
The strain does not appear to be felt as
yet. partly because a large proportion of
the expenditures is made within the
country and partly because the banks
have co-operated earnestly and skilful-
ly to avert public inconvenience.
Recently, when the peace envoy ar
rived in Hiroshima, the House of Repre-
sentatives unanimously passed a reso-
luton declaring their belief that the end
OF the war was still remote and that they
werep repaired to grant any sum of money
needed to prosecute the campaign. The
Government submitted to the Diet a
rev geH a aags ago a to ou~P }eeSMl oeo ye MAR W PqS-
49, N' 80
out question or discussion OF any kind
the budgetw Is handed to the Stand
ing Committee charged with the duty of
examining and reporting upon all sue
measures.
Two days later the committee present
ed its report. 1t CURLY stated that en-
gates, who always attend committee
meetings for the purpose of answering
questions. had established the govern
earnestly and vigorously as to secure
lasting peace for the Orient n that
consequently there could be no question
Appropriation required. When the Presi-
dent called for a how of hands every
member rose in his place and the budget
was passed unanimously amid a storm of
cheers. In the Upper House the pro-
cedure was Identical. There is no peace
party in Japan.
troops at Port Arthur panied the Japan-
csc more than 1T paine, Europeans. No
steps were taken to punish the soldiers
or degrade the generals. Such things
cannot be done in times of battle. The
only practicable way of r~eassuring the
world was to show hat the same sold
eirs could control the passion of revenge
under the same provocation. Wot-Hai-
Wei has offered the necessary oppor-
tunity.
In Shan-Tung as in the Liao-Tung Pen
inSula the Chinese behaved with ~pitileSs
savagery. Wherever they caught Jap
anese they tortured and m'Itilated them.
On one occasion. surprising a party of
thirty JapaneEe scout cooking their
tied up any that retained signs OF life,
after a fierce struggle, and tore from
their bodies everything that could be
torn.
A few hours later the main body of the
division to which the unfortunate men be-
longed marched by and saw the terribly dis
figured coroses. But there was no attempt
at retaliation. Not a single instance OF cruel
ty or needless slaughter is recorded against
the Japanese. On the contrary, we hear of
common soldiers treating women tenderly,
and Of a captain that carried a baby in his
arms through the thick of a combat. What
is more:-The principles of civilized nations
warfare are evidently obtaining recogni-
ton throughout the whole East, owing to
japanese example.