Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1896-11-25
JAPAN'S THIRD VICTIM.

b,
OF your readers doubtless know, ths
large island lying to the southeast {
China. 1t was one of the two portion
OF territory ceded by China to Japa
as the result of the recent war in th
East. For the past year the Japanes
army has been busily engaged in tn
island. endeavoring to subdue the il
habitants and make ready for exclu
sive japanese occupancy. From NAL
arial fever, and other causes. the Jan
anese have lost heavily in the attempt
claiming that in Formosa alone the,
have lost ten times as many men al
during the entire war.
A letter which the writer has just re
celved from Formosa givee an array Of
facts which lead him to make a few
remarks concerning the efforts OF
: Japan, and her policy, in colonization.
There are three territories in which
Japan has attempted colonization in
modern times.
# In 1875 she planted a colony in the
9 BONN Islands, 900 miles South. south.
Q east OF her mainland. These islands
were already occupied by settlement
OF half breeds whose fathers had set
tied this group from the Hawaiian
(Sandwich) Islands in 1880. The jap
anese came in and established them
selves in superior numbers. The Gov.
ernment appropriated the best hold
lngs OF the settlers without, in most
cases, giving any remuneration or satis-
faction for them, and have steadily en-.
croached from year to year upon the
rights OF the first settlers. These is
lands they have feeced of whatever
valuable materials and products thew
have found upon them, tillenow food
products and fuel are becoming scarcer
year by year. 1t will be only a cues
ton OF few years whether the islands
Will again become barren, as they for
merly were. They have made enemies.
instead OF friends, of the original BONN
islanders and there is no love lost. he I
tween them. Only the toughest and 1
most abandoned class of Japanese were h
sent to colonize these islands, and they |
largely came. from community of
exllec criminals between this eroun {
and the mainland. I
Ihe next picture we look upon is the
peninsula of Korea to the northwest.
The war with China was undertaken. a
ostensibly, to make Korea an indie t
pendent natien, free from the domi- o
nation OF China. However, now that
the SO called a0aa is ended it is evident
that from the first, Japan played a
game OF bluff and bamboozle in re-
spect to England and America. who
were thus easily befooled. So soon as T
japan had Korea under hack she he u
gan TO dictate excruciating reforms !" ~
with high hand; doing violence to y
harmless customs of the Koreans which F"
had been in vogue for centuries. Tn. u
stead OF persuasion and gentle means. sc
me has used the sole arguments of
orce and dlctation. Hence she has 10
naoe OF the Koreans bitter and in Va
'eterate foes. When the great Chinese VI
'rince, Ii Hung Chang came over tn sp
apan to conduct peace negotiations oe
u hiroshima. he was shot in the face ~
y would be Japanese assassin: when
he Japanese took Port Arthur. one Of la'
ne strongest of the Chinese citadels &C
he place was sacked and louted and mt
ne Japanese became insatiate fiends te'
utcherlng right and left, showing no in
uarter. When the war was done and we
ley found the Korean Queen, a wo- COZ
an OF nerve and determination. usinp Or
Or influence against them, they sent ma
secret assassin into her palace and sta
ltcnered her In cold blood, and tn. an'
ing fled for safetv to a., wo
'gatlon. The japanese official who gia
"a this butchery done returned to
pan and publicly feted along his afi f.
ute to the capital (Tokio.) At pres hay
. tne helr apparent to the throne of sel1
'rea Is virtual prisoner in Japan con
ger perpetual espionage. Recently gre' gro
Japanese Cabinet seems tn bava real
ailzed that such deviltry must sooner Bad
latef reap It's reward, and seeing the con
sslah navy becoming gradually more sion
IN erous in Eastern waters, the Prime heal
nister,- the great Count Ito who The
5hstood Prince III hoe lead
q MIN the Chief members of the cons ms
oinet' ana d new, and probably can
aKer, ministry has been formed Rnt perm
re is no limit to Japanese arrogance fiea
conceit, and having failed nttar,v Tho, 2Ieo
accomplishing the good which MANY patio
IAN enthusiasts predicted for her At any
IN Korea, she has turned her at- 1o1s5, pIes'
Iion TO Formosa, a picture of which Sc,
lven from the pen of the Rev. Dnn- Worl
ferguson, for some years a Scotch ton,
soyterian missionary in this island eai niese =.
the Japanese in Formosa
We SO much to say that I could
q you half a dozen letters and have Hin
~ material lor another half clever
- n VIII. In the autumn Virgil
st year just before the arrival of here
japanese in south Formosa we had ensni
'ssacre OF Christians by heathen King,
lese who thought they were in Vince
Japanese. Then in III. Il
u ILLS year there was Simm
00a0re On tne East coast for James
mar reason. From these twom mas N Mi
"ooue ~ christians. N. Ru
'ne Japanese with all the haver
Y oa'' lou speak about the Morga
80 oeine Juoilant over the ton, a.
nee OF the Japanese into Korea execn,
"nae! over the sinking Wheel
o"snins over the butcheries James
onur On the approach of Wood
:, l nao all these, and more Ameri
all these, things before n,o m.