The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-27
BIDDER WARNS OF
 YELLOW PERIL IN
 JAPAN'S ATTITUDE


 Herman Ridder, writing in the New York Sun of today. declares that the United states should take warning from the war1ikeS attitude of the Jap anese. He says:
 The expected and the inevitable has happened. The great guns of Japan are laundering at Tsing-tao. am informed, from a reliable source, that Germany suggested to Japan the neu- trality of the Far East The advisers | of the Mfkado referred the matter to Britain and the Japanese ultima tum was the result. The two answers to this ultimatum reveal the fearless determination of the German people to defend themselves with Spartan courage.
 ! CT war; comes from Berlin If you wish Kiau-chou you must take 1t, Is reported to have been the challenge of it's German governor to the Japan csc Such words lose none of their I heroic strength from having first been uttered by the Lion of Thermopylae to the Asia of his day. The odds were not greater then-the cause no more Lust.
 The developments of the week have i conducted to a clarihcation of the sit- uation. As 9. matter of fact Japan,s 1 motive is more mysterious than ever We were told in the beginning that she sought only to preserve the terri territorial integrity of China and se- cure to the Tar East the Blessings or permanent peace, When the Japan csc come bearing gifts 1ts IS well to De on ones guard. Who has ever read Japanese dip1o- macy in its entirety2 Not I, and I venture to question if there lives the Accidental who has so read it, or can But enough of Japanese methods and sy7Se half century of contact with the civ- ilized world to show the trend of a ha- tioraI policy which bodes no good to the American nation.
 | It appeared later that Japan had been moved by 8 sense of loyalty. to her ally to protect the latterss inter- l ests on the China main. Tn just what way the protection Of British interests lin Chinese waters may be expected i to work for lasting peace may be judgS 1 ed from the fact that for two cen turfes such. afnterests'' have been the disturbing factor in the intercourse between China and the west. The Japanese press is now c1an6ring for the retention of the German Leas- | ed Territory as prize of war What a change in a week! That a pity that the world might not have perisfled tseven days ago. that we might have | left this war wrecked sphere in the vain but happy delusion that the Sa- Inurais' sword was about to be p1ung- ed into the back of Germany that peace might come to a henaispherei ' Alas. that one short week should all tier peace to ttp1under,'t
 Neither Kiau-chou nor the coal mines and wheat fields of all Shantung will pay the price to be exacted later by Japan of Great Britain for this s1o- cal and temporary blow to German prestige.
 l IfzJapan succeeds in taking and hold l ing Kfau-Chou she will be able to re- sume her former policy of expansion, the annexation of all northern China If any one believes for a moment that Japane will stop at Tsing-tao let him read the story Of Manchuria:
 Aside from the question: of Great Brftain's desire to nn1tt54tf1e activities of her yellow ally. the sincerity of which I doubt. there arises the further fauestions of her ability to do so, or feven courage to attempt it. VIII Great Britain dare. when Japan says to her: Hands off!.' to imperiI all that her ally means to her. by opposing her activities in any sphere m (which, out side of strictly British interests's she may choose to pursue them
 i put to Great Britain frankly: Does lshe Intend to invoke the arms of stae