Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-01
Former Will Hold Latter in Check Until
All is Ready.
.tfERENcES WILL MAKE TROUBLE
.Ast and West Not Compatible and Bad
Feeling Grows
TOXIC DISuKEs ost RECENT REPORT
Statement that American Legation
Guard mt PekinE is TO BE
Doubled Dses Not Please
Islanders.

TOXIC. June 5O-(Special Cablegram to
The Bee. )-Reports that the 100 marines
who are now guarding the American lega-
tion in Peking having nearly finished their
term of enlistment, having served about
two years in China and one year In the
Philippines. will be replaced by 200 fresh
marines II the Chinese government can. be
induced to permit, are not meeting with
favor here. The excuse that 1t was
originally meant to station 200 American
marines in Peking, but that the United
States has heretofore not been in a posi-
ton to spare so large a force from other
duty does not deceive the japanese and
probably does not deceive the Chinese
since the orientals-in fact, all nations ac-
customed to dealing with the Russian gov
ernment are accustomed to the hidden
meanings In connection with this kind of
diplomacy.
A former United States army officer who
has been spending a great deal of time
in China and Japan. in the interest of a
European firm supplying arms and am
munition to the Japanese and the Chinese
is authority for the statement that the
worlds next great war will take place in
the orient. He bases his estimates on the
immense number of guns being ordered for
this part of the world
"YelIOw Peril" a Fact.
There is no use Of Disgusting the fact
that there is grave danger from the yell
low peril" he said. The Japanese, who
possess minds more subtle than any other
nation in the world, will not allow the
outbreak to come until China and Japan
are thoroughly armed and equipped. The
japanese expect to furnish the brains for
the next fight, but they expect to make
the Chinese do most of the drudgery.
THE orientals do not understand the oc-
cidentals and the people Of the far east 90
not understand the people of the western
world This is all there is to It. And
sooner or later these misunderstanding
must blossom out into actual warfare. Nc
diplomacy can avert it, for the popular pres
sure on the oriental governments will be
so great that no oriental government car
Withstand 1t. The government OF Japlr
itself could not have prevented the recent
war with Russia The people were bound
to have the war, and. although they wor-
ship the emperor, still he could not stoI
the war.
Fears Japanese Soldiers.
! ION the part Of the Americans there is
complete Misunderstanding as to the ability
OF the Japs. 1 have seen them fight II
China and in Russia, and tell you frankly
that while would not be afraid to pit al
American regiment against the Kings owl
on neutral ground or against the crack regi
ments of France and Germany, 1 should b.
afraid of the japanese. I believe they ar
as good, II not better, soldiers than tn
Americans, man 10 man, though 1 suppos
few Americans-few white men-can b.
found willing to believe It, But IL there ar
better soldiers than the Americans the Jap
are those soldiers.
'On the japanese side the people do no
understand what the white races can rcall
do when It comes to massing armies an
navies. For instance. they figure it out thi
way: China has 4OOOO0,Oo0 of people; Japa
has 100000 people. The United States ha
80. 900. 600 people. Japan can whip the Unite
States five times easy as It whippe
China. Japan whipped the 100000 peopl
t OF Russia and Russia was the big police
man of Asia. The United States has onl
: two-thirds of the population OF Russia
I therefore. Japan could whip the Unite
States far easier than II whipped Russia
= The educated people know something of III
D skyscrapers-the big Misunderstanding an
! otherwise in America-but the rank and nj
9 do not understand II; will not try to under
stand It. War Is coming and It is comm
more quickly than most people imagine"
The Jiji shimpo. in Peking Telegram
states that the British and American mel
. chants at Shanghai and Tientsin conten
plate taking united action against the jar
anese military administration In Manchuri;
While Japan ostentatlously publishes II
statement that Dalny is a free port. it
o not vet open, and when 1t Is opened it wi
d only be free as far as goods consigned
: the Liaotung peninsula are concerned.