Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-30
HAS REVERSED POLICY CITIZENS ORGANIZE
JapanS Attitude on the Open Residents of Suburbs Form
Door in Manchuria New Association
AN ENGLlSHMAN'S VIEWS ITO COVER WIDE TERRITORY
of the the Plan Further Interests of the
Orient Northeast Section.
ARE NOT DISTURBED HOLD ELECTION
tn
Clash the Powe Members
Japan's Attitude on the Open
Door in Manchuria.
AN ENGLlSHMAN'S VIEWS
Effect Of the Battleships' Visit to the
Orient.
JAPANESE ARE NOT DISTURBED
Former Mayor Of Oxford Recounts
Visit to Japan and Predicts
Clash With the Powers.

VANCOUVER. r. c.. May @.-G. e.
bruce. former mayor of Oxford. Eng
land secretary to the Botanical Society
Of Great Britain and curator of the Her
barium of the University of Oxford who
has just arrived here from the orient. at
ter an extensive tour of China. Korea and
Japan gives a highly interesting but
somewhat pessimistic account of Japan S
military and political activity In the far
east and the effect of the visit of the
American battleship fleet to that part OF
the world
While the official classes are reserved.
the japanese people are not the least per
turbed over the dispatch of the American
battleships to the orient. said Mr.. bruce
''Of course everybody in the far east eN-
cept the diplomats associates the demon
stration of American naval power with
the Manchurian trade question. The IA.
nous open door policy advocated by all
the white races is in reality nullity.
Japan has completely reversed the open
door policy in Manchuria excepting 10
her own people
With the arrival of the american bat
tleship fleet in the Pacific and the talk
of trouble with the United States IN the
future. japanese statesmen. MIR. bruce
Port Arthur. the former Russian strong
hold. is being made virtually impregnable.
while the fortifications at Dalny are being
rushed to completion.
Clash Is Inevitable.
Mr. bruce gives it as his opinion that a
CLASH with the powers over continuance
Of discriminatory policy now being car
ried out in favor Of japanese subjects in
the orient is inevitable. Even If Japan
is compelled to back down he believes her
will hrfn
Day Grows in Interest.
Not withstanding the shortening length
of the roll called annually during the past
forty years, the national Memorial day
has not only served its purpose. but has
grown in interest and has become moi
only time for honor to the dead. but a
patriotic inspiration to the living. and to
day ii is the great patriotic holiday OF
our people. participated In by all. 1t has
become appropriate to discuss any and
every patriotic subject which is for the
elevation as a people and a nation. But
its origin is never forgotten on this com
memoration of our second birth as ma
ton.
THE theater Of the civil war was
greater in extent than that covered by
Napoleon in his combined campaigns
The millions engaged in it. led by mill
tary commanders on both sides the peers
of any In all history. and In still greater
degree the high type of the man in the
ranks on both sides fired with zeal for
their cause rather than for the blood OF
battle marked 1t as the greatest conflict
Of the ages. The severe test of time has
proven 1t. While military maneuvers and
the plans of campaigns are still the sub
ject of study by the professional soldier
and many of the survivors of the strug-
gle, yet it has survived the years in in
teresting discussion almost entirely as a
great moral struggle and conquest. | am
proud to say that the civil war is a
continuing inheritance to us all because
of the great causes for which 1t was
fought. and I am sure that every soldier.
living and dead. could he speak, would
exalt the objects of the war above Its sac
rifces. its dangers and its adventurous
experiences.
Following the singing Of America by
the audience Chaplain Honn pronounced
the benediction.