Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-26
BY ELEANOR FRANKLIN EaAN.

valuable to the worlds higher progress.
whatever else one may think of Ger
II many, however accurately one may es
innate her aggressiveness and egotism
4 i must be admitted that she is pos
sessed of determined thoroughnes,
and far.sighted faith which are ex
| traoTdinary.
We are in the habit of congratulate
ing ourselves upon our achievement:
in our own Oriental colonial posses
sions, and i was really under the i'm
preston that we were the only people
capable of working miracles of organ
ization and development in an alien en-
vironment, until one day, not long ago
when found myself for the first time
in Kiaochau, that peculiarly acquired
naval base and colonial territory or
the coast of Shantung lately brought
into prominent view through Japan &
action in Emperor Williams war
1t was a bitter spring day in the
North China Sea, and in the little
German freighter, upon which hap.
pened to be the only passenger, the
heating arrangements were, to say the
least, primitive. So / Rugged my
blankets close until i learned, by
means Of distinctly audible and easily
transferable engine room signals that
we were making port. Then ] Jared
forth into the morning to receive a
series of shocks and surprises, for
which / was in no way prepared.
Surprise Of an Old Traveller.
A truly spectacular scene; every.
thing was green and white and brown
and gold; no gradations, no blendings,
just striking contrasts of definite color.
The ray was as green as the heart of
a clear green jade, while tiny fiecks of
white froth scurried across its surface
blown by the north wind. 1t gave one
an impression of unfathomable depth,
and it was cold-steely cold. The bar
rem erags, ranged around three sides
of the horizon, like huge frozen
cockscomb, were brown and gold !;
brown from their surf-lapped white.
sanded bases to their far away snow
powdered saw-tooth tops, gilt-tipped by
the cold yellow sunlight. 1t was beau
tiful, there could be no doubt about
that-beautiful in magnificent aus
tcrity, and when the ship rounded the
goldened brown promonotory and came
within sight of the white city snug
Cling in the hills, like lamb flock shell
tering against an untempered wind,
wondered how it happened that | had
been wandering around eastern Asia
for so many years without ever having
Il Id h. snh& Of
the estimation in which one has been
taught to hold German enterprise in
the Far East probably accounts for it.
Acquiring spheres of influence" in
China has been one of the chief occu.
pations for many years of a majority
of the world Is first powers, and now
the world is to have an opportunity to
observe certain results. This is inter
esting to Us in far reaching sense
because we, too, have thinned our
forces in expansion. We, too, are in
the antipodes, through no wish or ag-
gressive will of our own, true, but
there, in honor bound, to stay until
wAld peace let's us out.
bee Of international Humor.
The history of the western invasion
OF Eastern Asia is too much subject
of current comment to require even a
tursory survey in connection with the
astounding surface evidences of Ger
many's advance in the field, so one
may pass over that period during
which the United States was engaged
in forcing the policy of the "open
door = in the Far East and come to
the time when Germany goose-stepped
her armies on to Chinese soil and, gaz-
ing with jealous eyes upon the nations
there assembled, said to them through
the mouth of one noble spokesman in
Reriifs
Germany is the only country in the
world which is really and absolutely
interested in seeing China vigorous,
strong and independent; everybody in
Berlin is aware of that fact and it
would be grasped in Picking if the au-
thorities there were accustomed to see
ing beyond their noses. 1t is Russia s
aim to make China her yassal, bound
to render military service and to af-
ford men and material for the further
ance of Russian projects; japan can
only rely upon an enfeebled China for
the carrying out of her purposes of ex-
Pansion; France casts longing eyes
upon the southern provinces of China
and dreams Of extending her colonial
empire through Kwangsi and Kwang.
tung to Canton, and through Yunan
and Szechuan to the upper reaches Of
the Yangtse; while England has
proved by her attitude that she is in
capable Of understanding or appreciat-
ing the role which China is destined to
play in the Ear East. -
This may be regarded, in the light
of history, as richly humorous utter
anee.
In the treaty of Shimonoseki, which
was ratified in May, 1895, and which
terminated the China-Japan war, the
Chinese government coded to Japan
I'm perpetuity and full sovereignty
that strip of telitpry known as South
ern Manchuria. Then came the Triple
Alliance, - Germany, Russia and
France, with such representations and
arguments as made Japan release her
claim and retire from Manchuria in