The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-03-24

The number OF white people In Yokohama
is certainly not over go all told, so
that there is no reflection upon the COM
nunity in the above statement. Small as
II Is, It supports four daily papers, printed
in English.
The owner and editor Of the Mail.
the best edited Yokohama paper. lives
in Tokyo. Captain +. Brinkley Is ono
OF the Oldest white residents, and knows
Japan az well as anybody. but he looks
upon everything through Japanese
glasses. The other Yokohama papers. the
Japan Herald. the Japan Gazette and
the Advertiser have no government pa
tronaee. and the two first-named con-
sistentlv and conscientiously try to take
II out of the Mail and out OF the Japa-
nese Government. As they seldom Know
and seldom seem to care what tney are
talking about. they amuse their readers
and thus serve their purpose.
WHITE RACE NOT IN 1T.
lust now the point OF contest is an
article written by a special correspond
ent Of tie London Morning POST haNc
often wondered what benefit a speciai cor
respondent In Japan can be TO MS paper
He is helpless as babe. lie must
speak through an Interpreter ana near
through the same medium, ana Japanese
interpreters are. o such liarsl IL makes
no difference how cute he may be, the
special correspondent is bound 10 be STUN
ed II ne does his duty and makes Tokyo
his headquarters. he Is usually ADVISED
TO call on Captain Brinkley' ana japan
does not lose thereby. For captain
Dr,nltlev Is an entertaining talker and
knows what he IS talking about. 80 tne
correspondent is naturally prejudiced in
hn oil nI
other Yokohama papers are occasionally
hauled over the Goals by the special cor
respondent
This was the case this time. The old
reliable LonGon and China Express re-
fused TO reproduce the article in ques-
ton and called It an insult to the foreign
resident. Some Of our local papers were
more liberal and reprinted IT,, giving u
red-hot TO the correspondent ! tried TO
summarize the article in question Tor
your readers. but was compelled 10 de-
sist. The idea of the correspondent APP
pears to have been that. compared with
the japanese. we Of the white race are
not I'm Il. II took him about two ana
half columns TO impart that impression.
lie also pays his respects TO tho Hazette
and the Herald because their editions
sympathize with the foreign community
and fail 10 see I'm the japanese a nation
Of saints / wonder what they VIII 40
Brooke and Tenant. Skinner and curtis.
after the treaty goes into operation u II
really does. at the appointed time. II the
japanese permit the publication. and by
the revised treaty. they have perfect
right to prohibit il. there will be several
vacancies on the editorial STATS II big
hearted. grammar despising. honest. old
Brooke could not give it 10 the Japs, he
would have an apOpectic 1T,
The last steamer Of the Nippon Nusen
Kaisha for Europe carried the officers ana
crews 20 bring home the Asamo and Ia
kasago. two new cruisers built In Eng
and. The engineers strike i'm Great
Britain has. I understand retarded the
completion Of those vessels and IL will be
September before they arrive. ] shall be
very much surprised If they will ever
reach japan.
Before closing. | shall give an instance
If army discipline here. Some days ago
sergeant belonging 10 the Forty-fourth
Regiment al Kochi was stabbed with
,ayonet by a sentry. one evening when
he sergeant returned 10 the regiment
le was late. so that he could not get in
" the usual gate. He therefore. made
p his mind to steal in by climbing over
a bamboo fence. which surrounds the bar
racks. In an instant the sentry who was
IN duty perceived him. and urged him
repeatedly 10 desist. But the sergeant
took no heed. ThereupOn the sentry at
tackled the offender with the bayOnet and
stabbed him I'm the abdomen. The sentry
was eXonerated ii. ).