Los Angeles herald., 1909-09-15

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Ing into anger, then you
may approach any Englishman in the
far east, engage him in conversation
and casually refer to your allies. the
Japanese" The explosion will result
But this attitude of the sons of Albion
eXiled in Asia Is not reflected in the
policy of Downing street. In London
our allies, the Japanese" are the same
| dear, delightful, dainty, cherry-blos-
son. sugar-plum, little brown men that
they were when they were engaged In
pulling England's chestnuts out of the
fire by putting bumps In the path of
the Russian advance. In fact the
| British are more keen about that par
ticular alliance than are the Japanese
1t is a pretty tale, and 1t proves that
our little Japanese friends although
they blunder often in the minor rela-
tions of diplomacy, are there with the
goods when 1t comes to long-distance,
Ifar-sighted, open-plumbed, sanitary
dealings with foreign nations. In pass
| ing 1t may be mentioned that the.
same Japanese have the press agent
business down to a point so fine that
the most skillful purveyor of interest
ing articles about an actress diamonds
couldn't see the game with a micro
scope. 1t is pretty tale.
Here was the layout Japan had
whipped Russia to q standstill. The
whole world was ringing with praises
of the plucky little brown fellows. The
said whole world had not dropped to
the fact that it was reading only such
accounts Of that wonderful war as the
Japanese press agents deemed fitting
and proper for public consumption. The
hard and fast, copper-riveted, her
metically sealed offensive and defensive
alliance with Great Britain, the great
est and most powerful of all nations,
was no little feather in the cap of the
Japanese nation, not yet fifty years
out of the woods of Asiatic medieval
ism.
other things followed in rapid sue
cession. There was an entente cor
dale" with France, an agreement"
with the United States, and an under
standing with the late enemy Russia.
But not with Germany. John Bull,
whether there is any reason for 1t or
not, is extremely nervous about this
German person, Wilhelm. Any German
gets on the nerves of any Englishman.
No Briton feels like going to bed until
he has surrounded his house with
Dreadnoughts, baited trap with lin
burger cheese and locked the door with
an alliance lock. The Japanese navy
looks mighty good to the men in Down
ing street while the air is filled with
German airships, and, as they say in
shanghai 'Scare-SnlpS.
1t is Japan's little game at this time
to make over Korea and to acquire
Manchuria. The shock of the Japanese
victory in the war caused the powers
to permit Japan to have its own way
with Korea, despite all the treaties
made with that Hermit Kingdom. But
In Manchuria the Japanese were told
that they must go slow and not appro-
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The japanese promised, of course, to
be good. Then they set about weaving
this tangled web of agreements and
alliances and understandings and so
on. The result is that they have every
body so tied up that there Is nobody
in position to protest against the
Japanese program OF peacerul assiml-
lation In Manchuria.
England, as an ally, is in a very pc
culiar position. The real test question
of whether China's sovereignty In
Manchuria is genuine or whether Japan
is supreme, came up on the Faku-men
railway incident. The contract to build
the road was let to BRUSH nrh.
The British dearly love contracts like
that, little deals which guarantee or
7 per cent on the main proposition with
q huge profit on supplies sold TO the
company. The British government Will
fight, under ordinary circumstances, TO
uphold the interests of Its nationals
who manage to get such juicy con-
tracts.
Naturally the British sympathy and
influence in the Faku-men case was on
the side of the Chinese and the sacred
British construction contract. DID the
foxy Japanese kow-tow to their power
full ally? Not a kow"tow. Dld tney
defer to the superior wisdom or their
British partners in the game OF uni
Tnf 0SIeT-
ence. Did they euchre the noble and
honorable British contractors out OF
that lob? They did. And did they DO
so with the aid of the British govern
ment itself, with a German ghost IN
the background? They most certainty
did.
Whatever the attitude Of the Times
NAV be toward the government in pow
er concerning internal affairs, tne
Times and the foreign office are always
in accord. The foreign department OF
the Times is practically part OF the
British diplomatic organization Inc
Times gathers the diplomatic news
from all over the world IN 1asnlon
more thorough than any other asenty,
unless it is the Japanese olplonlatIIo
renort system The Times gives lts
news to the public, which the Japanese
do not Naturally, the news IN tne
Times is British in inspiration ana, al
ways properly of course, the Iiines
correspondents report the news from
the British standpoint.
The Times has some great corre-
spondents, but it has none greater than
DR.. George e. Morrison, the learned
and able Australian who represents
the Thunderer at Peking. For years pr.
Morrison has been looked upon as the
last word in the foreign correspond
ence game as they do 1t in London:
since Josiah X. Oil of Atlanta ana
Washington has been gathering items
in Peling for the New York Herald
there have been several crimps put into
DIR Morrison's prestige as the only
on earth-but that Is
mere American opinion, utterly beside
the question and not worthy OF the
notice of true son of Britain
Then after he had sent that article
home. after he had given Japan a clean
hill of health, after the party was all
over--then DR.. Chirol went with Dr.
Morrison 10 visit Korea and Manchu-
ria Rut he had already said the Jap
anese were all right, so the trip didn't
make any difference. And DIT. MOTIF
son went back to Peking.
The opposition of the Times 70 tne
Tananese aggression in Manchuria was
this silenced England forgot all
about that railroad contract. one
wonders why. until he has read the
nroceedines of meetings In London to
ppansider fhe, question of imperial de-
eorsa And there, when the Austria
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