The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1905-10-31
WAS PORT
ARTHUR SOLD
Z. T. Merrill Claims
the Japs Paid
100000.

Was Port Arthur sold out for Rus
sian graft?
The affirmative of this astounding
question has been declared in Homo
lulu by the mouth of a reputable pas
senger who arrived III the Mongolia
from the Orient on Friday last.
As the story was given to the local
narrator. the capitulatfon of Port Ar
thur by General StoesseI was made for
the price of six hundred thousand yen
gold.
And did General Stoessel pocket the
whole thing?" an Advertiser reporter
asked.
No He took 100 600 and divided the
remaining 100000 among the troops"
Z. +. Merrill is the man telling the
story here. AS reported in the Adyer-
tiser when he left Honolulu about three
months ago, Mr.. Merrill went to Yo-
kohama to start an ice cream parlor
and confectionery establishment AS
to why he has returned without hav-
ing carried out his enterprise, let him
speak
Whenever [ arrived over there I
was bought out by Mr. Clark. a big
caterer who has restaurants in Ma
Mia and Nagasaki. He didn't want
me in Japan, SO he took my whole
freight of outfit and stock right out of
the steamer
I had been wanting to go to that
country for fifteen years past. but 1
wasn't there fifteen minutes until L
wanted to get out again.
About the selling of Port Arthur?
1t Was told me by the English cap
tain of a steamer in which [ was go
ing from Yokohama to Nagasaki. He
assured me, that he was telling no
fairy tale.
And there was proof of the story at
every port where you would see Rus
slams from Port Arthur. They could
be seen strutting around. with their
pockets full of Japanese gold, having
gay time, playing billiards and so
FORTH
Mr.. Merrill now reverted to his inn
pressions of Japan, saying:
Secretary Taft made great many
enemies of the Americans out there.
How? He made a speech in Toxic in
which he said that Americans might
take lessons from the japanese in
cleanliness
Il only wished had taken along
some eggs to shy at him.
ut is continually f16uted in ones |
face, the love of the japanese for his |
Bosh. Two-thirds of them |
10 not know that they have coun- |
-ry, and the other one-third are very |
much swollen up with brass buttons |
md gilt braid.
You see this display everywhere.
Where one man would be sent in this |
country to serve a process, there half |
dozen in gilded uniform must at |
end to the business.
This wonderful land of Japan is at |
ne present moment in a state closely |
esembling the children's game called |
button, button; who's got the button?' |
The peace game has been played at |
and the button has been
eposited with Japan, but who has got
:?
The attitude of the Japanese, taken
5 whole, now that the war is over,
quite a different quantity from that
-hfch obtained while hostilities We're in |
rogress. When the war was in full
wing these little brown people aston
hed the world by their unity Of action |
nd cheerfulness with which they took
n heavy financial burdens. Their de-
leanor has now taken on very differ
ut color. The masses themselves are
boring under the mistaken impression
lg the outcome of the war has been
cry poor.
japanese of the middle and lower
asses have been very rude to foreign
6, 1nOuIg1nS IN Such acts DI IioO SAlu |
her disturbances as to invoke the aid
the military for the restoration of
der. The whole outcome of such acts
ignorance is that a severe cabinet
isis is now in progress. If the Japa-
ese. as a whole, have any idea crawl ,
g through their diminutive compre-
.nsion that such conduct as this can |
any wise enhance the prestige OF |
pan, they had better dispel it at once.
the action of the government regard | !
g the negotiations is not satisfactory. |
q people as a nation under constitu-
,nal rule. have proper methods for | ;
akfng known their grievances. There
no occasion for mob, riot or disorder
country that has been able TO sur
fse its fellow nations by wise conduct II
lring a great war should know how
maintain a calm and seIf-possessed
rit1lde in regard T0 the terms of peace. | :