Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-29
Forced TO Take Meals in Private to Maintain
Nations Dignity.
CoREA AN ALLY OF I,pAN IN RECENT WAR
Not Able to Render Active Assistance, it
kfforded Facilities.
SCHOOLS BtlNa Established sY JAPAN
Islanders Take active Interest In
Education of People of Hermit
sIInEdom where Disorder
stfII Prevails.

TOXIC, July &.-(Special CableBTau 10
,e lee - baron X. suyematsu, the dis
ungu.shed writer and traveller, in an inter
N.e.s commenting upon the "zieten' Incl
cont, where on a German liner returning
20 tne Jricnt ty the Suez canal he was not
lowed at the captains table, said:
The pubucty gwen to the incident does
not ieIu.t nc 10 pass unnoticed few
cJnln,nts which have not been quite fair.
one Is tnIt am, perhaps. unaware Of
the fact tuat the etiquette respecting prece-
dence s nc, so strictly observed on board
ships al on land. Another is that the
japanese are afflicted with swelled heads.
IL IS not necessary that l should say that
the second IS, to say the least, rather
vide of the mark in my case, or that the
nfst Is not d fact. The reason why L pro-
tested was not simply to vindcate my own
case, but because cases like mine had come
tn be- not the exception, but the rule.
may mention a case which will appear al
most like a fable, but which is, neverthe-
less a fact. IL occurred so recently as
dLr.ng the late Russo-Japanese war
Japanese HumiIinted.
A Japanese minister plenipOtentiary
with his VIE, returning from Europe, had
to take their meals every Gay in their own
cabiu because the seats allotted to them
in the dining room saloon were so humble
2 that they could not occupy them without
seefning 70 acquiesce in an indign,ty 10 their
country / can assure you that Japanese
travellers hiterto, with perhaps some special
exceptions have been generally put in
some corner of the dining saloon. This
being the case, captains and ohcers OF
different ships appear to have regarded 1t
as the normal thing that they should be 80
treated. They had almost always treated
Japanese passengers Of every description
in that way and thought nothing more
ABOUT Il. | myself am convinced that any
intention OF deliberate insult was far from
their minds. they were merely acting ac-
coiding to a well established habit We
Japanese, however. could not allow such a
thing 10 20 on forever, and that was the
reason why / took the matter up and tried
20 make use of 1t to serve the purpose of
pfonioting the mutual respect and good
wiu between the west and the east. l am
clad 10 notice that things have already
much improved"
Award In Singapore.
According TO advices received here from
the straits settlement, Lord st. Aldwyn
who arbitrated last October between the
government and the Straits settlement
and tile Tanjong Pagar Dock company tc
decide the amount TO be paid by the
1ormer for the acquisition OF the latter's
undertaking at Singapore and Penang, has
issued his award.
Lord ST. Aldwyn has decided that tn,
government must pay at the present rate
of exchange Sl6,5OOOOO for the under
taking, compensation to the directors anc
the costs of arbitration.
The issued. capital of the company II
about S2,l50,0oO with debentures Of abou
ST, 600 900.
In an interview upon the subject OF
Corea recently, Marquis Ito said tina
Corea had been the ally of japan in thu
late war lie said II might be the cas-
that IL had not been practicable for Cores
TO give Japan active assistance in tn
held, but it had afforded facilities. Wha
was more, IL had incurred in consequence
the hostility of Russia. japan will stand
therefore. by CoTea now and help It t
govern for itself.
Japan has reserved by treaty the righ
to- regulate the foreign AFFAIRS of Corea
but all the treaties made in the past be
tween Corea and other countries will b
respected. The only exception is in tn
case Of Russia.
Japan is now starting schools in diner
ent parts of Corea. Disorder and inse
curity are still a good deal prevalent ava
from the capital. but a number of Jap
anese police officers have been lent I
the Corean government and are heipin
TO Introduce a more desirable state o
anairs. There has been lntrigues be
tween Corean officials and foreign powers
and this. Marquis Ito said. cannot be tol
Grated by Japan.