The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-10
oLYMPIA'S PLUCKY TARS.
ATTACKS MADE UPoN 0UR SAILORS
~ JAPANESE PoRTS.

Their FIEhtisE Qualities shown In an Enosan-
ter with = Mob In Yokohama Indinersn ca
or the Japanese Goversment Renardins
the Attneks on American Naval sailors.
The jack tars OF the United States cruiser
Olympia who were mobbed by natives in Yoko-
hama last month, proved. before they wero
ovcrpowcred by vastly superior numbers. that
their lighting qualities arc of tho sterling kind
that have made Yankee sailormen feared and
respected all the world over. Tho Japan Her
aid, an English paper printed in Yokohama,
thus describes the scrimmage in detail:
The trouble originated In the legitimate ut.
tempt on the part Of the Japanese police to ar
rest several bluojnckets from the United states
flagship Olympia who had ovorstayed their
leave. The bluojackets, obeying the benicoso
instincts Of their race. refused to be arrested
and offered an emphatic resistance. in some
cases with their natural weapon, the cal'oused
fist, and In others with short bamboo sticks,
which wore used with painful effect upon tho
bodies OF the myrmidons OF the law. News OF
the riot spread rapidly and a mixed crowd Of
natives and foreigners had soon collected In the
neighborhood. Tho former, not content with
playing the role of Idle spectators, rushed In TO
the assistance Of the police. using sticks. stones
and abusive language with the utmost Impair
TALLY.
~ "hb ~ u ulOucnC "ncu n UlucJhCkcI,
overpowercd By numbers, had been thrown down
by the police andsa brute OF a coollo was on the
point Of striking his PROSTATE body with a club
that q foreigner lntcrposed- AS any man worthy
OF the name would do-and prevented the coolie
from effecting his cowardly purpose. EnraRed
at.being thus frustrated, tho coolic watched his
opportunity, and when the foreigners back was
struck him TO the earth with the club. the blow
raining upon his LEFT temple and INJECTING a se-
undnunted by an injury which might well have
prompted him to retife from the scene Of hos
%tiiities, the injured man regained his feet and.
chase to tho scoundrel who had attacked him.
Major Ellis of tho Salvation Army hearing
room. and, sclzing the coslie hung him to tho
ground. where he held him until his pursuer ar
5ssfs of Tf FL: 1 dSali f1v' Bg h,f wh,ip% s' Sfm nns q
bins, in the lower mo1llIary region, marched
time with the blue}ackets. One OF the latter.
~pugilist, further approved his claim by laying
out in rapid succession some half dozen police.
saSaue dh and i'G mare6sS oh s"T se . thc; E EGTs snAf! oy
morning.. Major Ellis, wo bear. has been
and not TO venture forth at night, as the friends
OF the coolie whom no helped 10 arrest have
vowed vengeance against him.
This trouble had scarcely subsidized when a
crowd OF some $50 Japanese surrounded the
b9rroom door OF the Salvation Army Home,
while one OF their number approached an inof-
fcnsive American bluejacket. not concerned In
the foregoing disturbance. and informed him
he paid his.self.s styled creditor the money forth.
the police station. The blucjacIet denied that
he owed the Japanese a cent, but admitted his
readiness,to listen TO Argument and assured the
would at once pay tho money. A japanese
policeman careles-iy approached the group at
erai foreigners present, Including Major ESlliss Of
the Sally alton Army. declined TO act in the mat.
s sfr, ; Saa the SG ar rest a pi the biTej nsks s ono the and mni
supported ipse dixit OF the Japanese had not q
been created bv an offer on the part OF
jackets behalf. The latter accepted this as.
sistancc, in spite OF Major Ellis's advice that he
I nited states Consulate. lie, however. pre-.
ferred to lose the, money rather than be ex-
p pGssa to to i ths d asIics siaPIaD Of pu0lie:'rrest and a
Commenting editorially upon these incidents. |
Nobody need be surprised that tho Ameri.
can Government has at length taken cognizanco
OF the attacks made on United States sailors in !
Japan. In Sagasski lately there occurred the
posed to have bee murdered by Two boatmen
taking him of TO his ship. the Olympia; Sub
the boatmcn were arrested and tried, |
but the court contcnted itself with merely inn |
posing pecuniary fines upon the men in ques.
named Montgomery. and then there was also
the affair OF sailors, from the Yorktown. who, |
when ashore at Kobe. were brutally attacked
by a Japanese mob. =
A the Japanese authorities. So far as VIC are
aware, have taken no exception 20 the sentences
they do not appear To be disapproved OF.
and we shnn be curious to learn what ~satisfac-
tion the American Government will reap when,
after having ascertained all the particulars
u these cases, It demands that appeals shall be |
In order that the superior courts
shall review the sentences with Il view to their
being changed. As tho time-is approaching
subject to native courts, the way in which they
are presided over by Japanese Judges becomes
" increasing interest and Importance; ronse-
luently the action being taken by the Govern
nent OF the United States is entirely approved
II as likely to have a ~salutary effect upon tho
administration Of justice n matter In which all
lationalities arc concerned"