The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-09-08
japan and China,


MY DEAR MRs Il: I may he hack
in America sooner than I had expected
or course the war news is changing every
ones plans. Exchange has become simply
ruinous. | drew my money out before Il
went down, as 1t did a day later. but
may find that new letter OF credit, which
| should have to have by November, would
cost too much. All the tourists are leav-
Ing, and as so many boats have been
taken of the lines the japanese and
Pacific Mail boats are getting everything.
The big G. II. liner Empress OF Asia. an
enormous ship. was the first TO be char
tered by Britain, but since then all the
big French and German ships on the Eu-
ropean lines have been taken for auxil-
larry cruisers for their respective navies.
This leaves the boats of the Japanese -.
Y. X Company the only ones going around
to Europe. The directors have decided
to keep them going. although there may
be some danger
There is no news by way OF Siberia
any longer. and the transsiberian trains
stopped running several days ago. All
sorts OF rumors are afloat, not only about
what is happening In Europe but about
what may happen In China. The German
fleet here Is supposed to be near Using
tao, which Is German port. and all
French. British and Russian people there
were ordered to leave Yesterday. The
German Consul and his family IN Vladl-
vos,ok were kept in complete ignorance
OF what was happening, and day before
yesterday were notified that they had
twenty -four hours In which to leave.
Japan Is going 20 live up TO her treaty
with England. and II there is trouble at
Hongkong. which In under martial law
now, will help with her navy. Russia is
boastlng now that Japan is her friend.
and certainly she Is trusting japan greatly,
for the Russian troops have been with
drawn from Manchuria and Japan is left
to take care OF things there.
] don't believe there is half so much
danger OF trouble between the different
European fleets out here In the East as
there is OF Internal trouble In China.
Every one knows that the republic may
go TO smash at any moment. Yuan Shin
k'ai doesn't dare put his head out OF the
Summer Palace for fear OF being blown
up. and now. with the foreign troops with
drawn. II anything should happen one does
not Ike to contemplate what would fol-
low. There would probably be a horrible
massacre Of foreign residents, for when a
Chinese mob gets started II Is the most
relentless wild fury in the world. and
under the surface the Chinese hate the
foreign devils" and all their foreign tivil-
ization. The progressive Chinaman is in
the minority, the teachings OF COntuCius
are st!ll adhered to by the majority, and
they don't want 10 be stirred up and
adopt Western ways 1t is said that there
are 90. 900 idle coolies in Shanghai You
can imagine what would happen II any
thing were to excite them and got them
started.
Business depression Is very great here
and the silk firms win suffer dreadfully
The crop OF fall tourists will fall entirely
which means lot to Japan every year
The air is tense with excitement and
there Is always a crowd OF people ~ al
nations around the bulletlp board OF the
newspaper office Just across the street
J must 60 down and see what the news
ia. SO many OF the reports are utterly
without truth that we have to wait a day
or two before really knowing what has
happened. l.. y II
YOKOHAMA, August 8.