Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-20
HIGH JAPANESE
DENY CHARGES

Special Cablegram to The Star.
TOXIC, August 2O.-High japanese OH
Gals deny the statements Of Messrs. j. r.
Patterson. c. W. Wrightson. H. de Gray
and L. Wildwood to the effect that the Jap
anese government 10 discriminating against
foreigners. According to these gentlemen.
who accompanied a party Of Shanghai mer-
chants through southern Manchuria from
Newchwang to Liaoyang and Mukden,
thence to Hsinmintun and back to Picking,
Americans and Englishmen are not receiv-
ing fair treatment. These merchants spent
q month in investigation of trade condi-
tons throughout the some OF japanese in
fluence In Manchuria and In Peking. They
made a report to Sir Robert Hart upon
their Investigations and suggested to him
that certain trade conditions there be called
to the attention Of Great Britain.
/ It should be understood in Englsnd and
America that the Toxic Commercial Society
has memorialixed the governor general Of
lAaotung, Gen. Baron Oshima, on the sub
3ect Of south Manchurian trade: The as
ISOLATION wants to know Immediately the
full carrying capacity Of the East China
railroad, and has asked that a large area
Of land in the vicinity of Dainy wharf be
appropriated as quickly as possible to the
facilities.
This activity on the part Of the Toxic
Commercial Society has inspired the Ger
man association of Shanghai to forward to
the German minister at Peking an urgent
appeal that he put pressure upon the i'm
perial customs of China to establish its
service in Manchurian open towns as soon
as possible.
Americans and English capitalists are
also complaining that their investments are
not 70 ND Coll r,lyrr tvaf1 t. o3f a
to show that the rush of foreign money
will not last long. A very large corpora
ton sought to protect the eastern side of
its business by promoting an allied Japan
csc company. It very carefully invested
100000 yen. and in order to cover the
transactions it had everything done in the
name Of its Japanese lawyer. Then one
Of the leaders of the enterprise became q
Japanese subject, a Japanese company
was formed and the lawyer was requested to
draw up the necessary deeds transferring
all the properties from his own name to
that Of the new body. Certainly" he re-
piled: but my fee will be 100000 yen."
The million had to be paid to him, and the
people had no redress.
End Of Court-Martial.
The court-martial which has been sitting
at Toxic for some time past to investigate
the conduct Of officers who left the trans
port Kinshiu Maru before the was sunk by
the Russian cruiser Rossia has concluded
its labors.
Capts. Shina and sakurai. Commanders
Mizozuchi and Ogura, Paymaster Ida, two
lieutenants and one ensign have been dis
missed from the army and reduced to the
position Of commoners.
The report on the foreign trade Of China
in 1905. as issued from the statistical de-
partment of the inspectorate general Of
customs at Shanghai lis out. Mr.. H. B.
Morse. the statistical secretary. devotes an
int tfncy oH1 nP hfo 70 fho
question Of the boycott against American
goods.
Dislocation of Trade.
There has been a considerable disloca-
ton Of trade. which appears to have been
more marked in the minor distributing
centers. and from time to time a recrudes-
cence Of the agitation is still reported from
one place or another. Much suspicion
has been created, and much hostility en-
gendered. but the general verdict Is that
not much injury has yet been caused to
the American manufacturer and Apoar.