The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-04-23
GOLDEN SILENCE OF The JAP.
MAS PATIENTLY BORNE INSULTS
AND BASELESS CHARGES.
No word OF Protest at Russian Outrages
IN the Field-Feels bitterly but ~.
iently the Retention OF NOn-COm'
batants-Then Returns Good for Evil.

batants-Ihen Returns Good for EVIL
Special Gable Dsspaieh 10 THE sun.
LONDON, April 22.--The Toxic corre-
spondent Of the Times sends a long letter Of
praise Of the golden silence" Of the Jap
anese under provooation which would have
aroused an insistent outory In other ooun-
tries. When the st. Petersburg news
papers declared that determination, as Of
noXious vermin. was the only appropriate
manner Of dealing with the Japanese, and
when the Russian religious press denounced
the Mikado as Antichrist there was no
outburst Of indignation.
There was almost complete silence also
over the painful iteration Of the reports
which are unhappily indisputable Of out
RACES committed by the Russians upon the
persons and properties OF non-combatants.
In regard TO other outrages Of nameless
nature the correspondent points out that II
Is really remarkable that the Japanese do
not rise to construct a comparative vindl-
cation. They can point 70 their campaign
ing record Of 1s04-o5, 1900. and In the present
war, and ask whether even one attested
case Of outrage Of a woman can be laid to a
japanese soldier. Many such cases were
insistently so laid to the European soldiers
during the Pekin expedition and are now
charged increasingly against the Russians
by the Chinese and Coreans; yet the Jap
anese refrain absolutely from any such
analogy.
Another grievance borne In studied
silence by the japanese concerns the pris-
oners. The japanese official Gosette pub
fishes q list furnished by Russia Of the
japanese prisoners she holds. This num-
bers $50 men, OF whom only 80 belong to
the coubatant services and 800 are peaceful
japanese who have been held as prisoners
for months.
On the other hand. in Japan before the fall
Of Port Arthur there were S,07S Russian
prisoners. Not a single non-combatant
was included in this number Even a naval
paymaster who pleaded old age was liber-
ated The japanese felt bitterly but silently
the retention Of their peaceful countrymen.
and it was natural that retaliation should
be expected when Port Arthur fell.
But such an idea, II it occurred TO them,
was never expressed, and every non-com-
Blatant in Port Arthur was set free. More
over, in Port Arthur there were found only
70 japanese prisoners, representing the total
taken by the Russians during the siege.
Hundreds of wounded japanese must have
fallen within the Russian lines, and up to the
last moment It was hoped that many would
be found in the hospitals But only the 70
mentioned above were discovered, and these
included some who had not been wounded.
The rest must have persisted by exposure,
priVation or torture.
Even when Gen. Stoessel in his dispatches
accused the japanese Of deliberately firing
on the hospital, a charge which has now
been disproved, there was silence. On the
heels Of the accusation the wires brought
word that IL was not believed In England.
The comment Of the japanese journals
was simple. They printed the London
kilograms with the heading: They See
That, Look