Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1908-03-13
CHINESE YIELD A
POINT TO JAPS
IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT APOLOGIZE
ES FOR INSULT TO FLAG
OF MIKADO.
CASE Is NOT SETTLED YET.
Pekin Authorities Still Insist Upon Full
Investigation of Tatsu Maru
Incident
NJ II
CASE Is NOT SETTLED YET.
NEGOTIATE AS TO INDEMNITY

PEkIN. March 9.-The incident of the
Tatsu Maru, the japanese steamer that
was held up by the Chinese authorities
on February Z off Macao in the belief
that the cargo of arms and ammunition
on board were intended for Chinese revo-
lutiOnstS, has not yet been fully settled.
Baron Hayashi, the Japanese minister
to China, held Il conference today with
Yuan Shih Kai, grand councillor of the
empire, but they failed to reach an I'M
| Outstanding as TO the release Of the
steamer, which is still held by China,
and with regard to the indemnity.
China in Apology.
China has, however, given satisfaction
regarding the hauling down Of the
Japanese flag on the Tatsu Maru by
! Chinese officers, and Baron Hayashi to-
day assured China that Japan would
meet her desires regarding supervision Of
the traffic III arms to Chinese territory
, He agreed also to the Chinese proposal
for the ultimate disposition of tie cargo
Of the Tatsu AIaru, after which he again
set forth the final demands Of his gov
ernmcut.
Influence had to be exerted on Yuan
Shih kal to get him to act i'll the mat
| ter. The foreign board rciterates its
previous statements that the case cannot
be settled without u thorough inyestiga-
ton.
Serious as the Tatsu incident is, it is
regarded here as merely the climax Of a
series of offenses committed by the ,Japa-
| neSe.
The real cause is attributed to the
desire Of the Mikado's government to
prevent Chinese from recovering full
sovereignty in Manchuria.
The fomenting of rebellion i'll certain
Chinese districts, i'll which Chinese
youths, educated in Japan, are used as
tools. and other repressive measures are
pointed out as proof of this plot.
Postal Service One Cause.
The conduct of the posta. service i'll
Manchuria is regarded as another OF
these sinister moves. Japan is harrass-
ing the imperial Chinese post by such
means as the following:
Japan refuses China certain postal
privileges on the South Manchurlan rail
ways to which she is entitled, has broken
| open Chinese mail bags, secretly conts-
Gated one mail bag and contents and
conducts a parcels post over her railways
while refusing to carry the parcels of the
! Chinese post.
! China has been aware for some time
! past that Japan was using her depart
ment of communications to extend her
authority in Manchuria. Japan substi-
| tuted for her military post when 1t was
withdrawn at the time of the evacuation,
| a complete postal establishment under a
postal commissioner of the imperial
! Japanese post, who resides at Dalny.
China has not 50 far had the temerity to
mention her natural rights i'll Manchuria
! on account of the menace which the
/ Japanese government holds over her
puccia Aid to Iapan
Russia has been a party to Japan's
success i'll her postal policy. Shortly
after the Russan-Japanese war China
discovered that Japan and Russia had
made Il secret compact by which the
/ imperial Chinese postofiice was excluded
from the through mail traffic between
Europe and the east by way of Siberia
and Manchuria. The mails from Europe
are received by the Japanese imperial
postofice in the heart of Manchuria and
are delivered by the same postoffice to
| addresses in Chinese cities. Japan re-
ciprocated Russia's delivery OF European
mails by delivering all European bound
mails to her.
Russia and Japan based their rights
to this action on the ground China was
not member of the international postal
union. Then Japan submitted a scheme
by which she would not only hold her
present postal and other communications
in Manchuria, but would obtain certain
unfair privileges over the Chinese i'm
perial railways in Manchuria and China
proper.
To these and other high handed pro-
ceedings China has objected strenuousy.
| but the open breach did not come until
the TatSu incident, which is regarded as
the final straw by high Chinese officials.