The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1905-08-24
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SEATTLE, Aug. 24.-"An 1ndem-
nifty and an assurance that Russia
will not be able to infict any injury
to Japan on the Pacific coast for the
next rs years"
That is what the Nipponese pleni-
potentiaries at Portsmouth, N H.,
will insist upon from the representa-
tives of the car before there will be
any peace, according to William Din
widdie of New York. who is stopping
at the Butler hotel. He has just re-
turned to America, after three and
a half years sojourn in the orient
and Pacific islands. He is the per-
sonal representative of the New York
World and Harper's Weekly
Mr.. Dinwiddie was one of the few
correspondents who witnessed the
bloody battle of Liaoyang.
TWENTY-FIVE years from now Japan
Will not care what Russia may do"
continued Mr.. Dinwiddie, for then
she will have one of the big navies
of the world. The war now being
waged is but move in Japan's fu-
ture, both commercial and financial
She is working for the future.
Il am a decided pro-Jap man, for
have been in that country so long, and
have watched and studied it's course
so carefully, that l feel confident that
Japan will become one of the great
commercial and financial countries of
the world in the next 20 years. We
need not fear the little brown man.
He is our friend; not ally. He is an
ally of England.
"They love the United States. I
was in Japan when Mr.. Taft and Miss
Roosevelt arrived there. They were
given the greatest ovation ever ac-
corded a foreigner. That is saying
everything possible when you take
into consideration the fact that it is
not considered manly for a Jap to
show any emotion in public. L was
in a rickshaw when Mr.. Taft was in
the city. After my man had yelled
himself so hoarse he could scarcely
speak, he asked me, with tears in his
eyes-tears of joy-whether l was
an American. When l answered yes
he said in substance that he and
every man in Japan loved this coun-
try.
Ten years ago Germany exported
almost all the wooden goods used in
that country. Today Japan has cut
the trade more than half, and is sup
plying Germany with certain kinds,
besides cutting into the Chinese trade,
The same condition is true as re-
CARDS other commodities and coun-
tries, especially England. Japan is
advancing commercially. and financial
ly, and will continue to do so until
she is one of the great nations of
the world.
II hear it said that Japan will next
take the Philippine islands. Do not
believe it. But l will add, however,
that if Japan did take them she
would do it in two weeks time, and
we would never be able to get them
back. The Japs are not 'swelled up,
as you term It. over their successes.
confidence and determination.
They do not feel that they are 60
ing to win this way-they know II.
The whole army is so conducted that
Field Marshal Oyama can place his
hand upon any one of his men at any
time of the day or night The army
is conducted the same as is one of
our great railroad systems in this
country. The conditions are such
that It is not necessary for an officer
to expose himself in battle. The men
know what is expected of them, and
their movements are communicated to
headquarters by wonderfully pro-
ficient telegraph and telephone sys-
TEN. Orders are given and the men
carry them out.
THE Japs are not boastful. They
have little to say. You can not find
one who will say that they are going
to win this war. They say that the
next peace conference will be held in
Toxic. Could YOU say more? And it
will be held there if the negotiations
In Portsmouth fail.
"Field Marshal Oyama Is ready to
strike as soon as matters at Ports
mouth warrant IT. You can not get
the Japs to admit that they are rest
ing on their arms awaiting the out
come of the conference, but that is
the fact. But when Oyama strikes
again II will be a second Mukden
The Japs have more men than the
Russians. and when say men l mean
men who can shoot. The Russians
are decimating themselves by sick
ness The Japs are gaining b. in
activity between battles, because dis
ease plays havoc with it's foes, while
with the Japs there is little sickness
They drink only boiled water, and
their diet insures good health.
"rhe next fight will be an awful
one, but II will he the same in results
as Mukden and Liaoyang. The Japs
outnumbcr the Russians. have a cam
paign mapped out that will result il
victory, and as the laps say. the next
conference will be held in Toxic"