The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-01
JAPS GREATLY EXCITED
Don't Like the Way the Powers
Are Acting IN the Orient.
WAR MAY BREAK FORTH
Sneers at the Boasted Civilization and
Christianity OF the Western World
Which Tolerates Such Con-
duct as Gerrnany's.

Washington, Dec. 31.--The high state
ef public feeling in Japan over the COM
rfications in the far East centering in
China is shown by the last press ad-
vices received here from Japan. That
the government itself has an eye 10
TIE gravity ef the question is shown by
the reply of the premier to delegation.
lie said:
"IV th affairs tending toward dam
eerous developments as lis now the case
in the East. we shall not hesitate to ask
The diet for 9O-00O,e 600 yen or even 4o.00o.-
GOO. If necessary
This was only a short time before the
premier was forced to resign because
Of public feeling that the cabinet was
too weak TO deal with the European
powers with reference to China and the
probable dismemberment of the latter
country.
The Jill Shimpo. the most influential
paper in japan. contains a scathing ar
raignment of Germany's course, declar-
inG the occupation of Kiao Chau shows
that the laws and tenets of internationl
al morality have ceased to be anything
more than specious pretense by Euro
pean powers and that the rule by which
their conduct is really regulated is the
flesh Of the weak is the food of the
strong. After declaring that Germany
has thrown off the mask and has taken
the lead Of the Western powers in the
struggle 70 devnur China the paper
adds as to the attitude of Japan:
The confagration is on heseother
side OF the river but the river Is a
narrow one and sparks may easily fly
across. The lesson for Japan is that a.
country's security depends solely on its
strength to resist aggression, and that
aggression has come to her own gates.
1T will not suffice that she should be
e4Fr..t he I.F
what one already has. it is sometimes
necessary to add more. A crisis in the
Orient now eonfronts Japan and her
undivided strength must be devoted to
guarding against the perils that menace
her"
The Sehuo declares that the time for
the partition or the Chinese empire has
arrived and adds that in the occupation
what shall Japan do? Shall she join
in ths scramble for pieces OF the parti-
toned state or shall she oppose its par
| tition?"
The Toxic Shimpo takes the radical
position that it is Japan's duty to sue
| cor China at this juncture on the
| ground that the boasted civilizatIcw
| and Christianity of the Western world
is slowly trampling down right and jns-
| tice in its descent upon the Orient.
Pekin. Dec. 31.-Advices just received
from Seoul. the capital Of Corea, s.ys a
compromise has been effected IN
agreement by which j. Levy Brown.
| British customs agent. and NJ Alexieff,
Russian agent. to make room for whom
Brown has removed. will work the
| Corean customs together. The British
warships which are present at Che
mulpo are there to give moral support
| to Brown.
London. Dec. sf.-A special dispatch
| from Paris says that NJ. Roume. head
of the Asiatic department of the French
colonial office. starts on secret mission
| to China Sunday in connection with the
| crisis in the far East. The dispatch
| adds that a special military miss IN will
| also start for China shortly.
| Berlin. Dec. 31.-The. German first
class cruiser Kaiserin Augusta arriye7
| yesterday at Kaio Chou bay