Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-12-15
JAPANESE WILL
 PUSH PROTESTS Foreign Office Had Hoped for Change of Sentiment
 in California
YELLOW MEN HOLDER
Because of Alliance With Great Brit. ain Being Strengthened by War. Japanese Feel Confident in Deal.
 ing With T. S.

Tokio. Dec. 14.-The Japanese for eign office is evidently expecting a great deal of anti-Japanese legislation at the next session of the California legislature. Secret agents of the for eign office have followed the recent elections very closely with the result that it has issued a confidential re- port to the Japanese newspapers giv- ing what appears to be an accurate analysis of the legislative situation in California in so far as it affects pos Sible anti-Japanese legislation.
 Public utterances of all the candi- dates on the question of anti-Japan- csc legislation have been checked up and according to the forecast of the Japanese foreign office those who are in favor of such lceislation are in the majority in both house of the California legislature.
 It is believed here that Japan has held off further protests about the anti-Japanese legislation in California until the California election. Now that she sees no hope, of change Of sentiment there, she will doubtless push the matter further. With the Anglo-Japanese alliance strengthened through Japan's aid in the war against Germany, there is little doubt here but that this time Japan's diplo- matic representations will be much stronger than they have been hereto fore.
 Now that Tsingtau has been taken by the Japanese forces, the local newspapers almost without exception argue that Japan is in no way pledg- ed to give the colony back to China. They argue that Japan's ultimatum to Germany in which the surrender of the place was demanded in order 70 give it back to China does not now held good. Tsingtau was to be gwen back if surrendered peaceably by Germany but now that Japan has had to fight for possession of the place, she is under no obligations to give it back to China. a.G
 ] The Hochi, which is credited witn being a semi-official organ, is one O. the most Outspoken on the subiec. It. says the phrase promising the re turn of the place to China in the ult matum to Germany does not hold goo( because the surrender of the plact was not peacefully made, as conten, plated by the ultimatum. Those wht say that Japan Aas pledged her wor' tc give the place back are wrong. continues eff Japan ever return Kiaochow to China, she will do it b, cause she finds it convenient to dt so, not because she feels bould b, any obligations.'
 This is the view held by practical. ly all of the Tokio papers and is be, lieved to be the official view. The few papers which insist that Japan has pledged her word to give the colony back insist that the promise b.. kept. but outline plans of restoration which would give China the title tt the place while Japan would remail in a dominant position. They insis on the appointment of Japanese ad visory committee which will rule the place in the name of the Chinese au thorities, and also that Japanese bt given special rights of residence ant trade in Shantung, rights which ar' to be enjoyed by no other national ity and which were not granted tc the Germans.
 As to the German mines and rail ways in Shantung province. there i' no question. according to the Japa' rese papers, about their disposition They are now in Japanese hands anf will remain so. The fact that these properties were in private German ownership is not considered.
 News comes from Hongkong O very stringent measures which have been taken in that British colony tC prevent possible German espionas; and also to destroy the vestige of Ger man trade which is left in the Fla, East. At the beginning of the war al the local Germans were placed unde' strict surveillance and this has now been followed by an order of deporta, tion. All must leave within a shor1 time. while those of military age arc tc remain in the colony as prisoners
 An order amounting practically to confiscation has been issued againS all German business concerns. All have by government order been plat- ed in liuuidation. Their owners arr given a short time in which to dis pose of their property either to Brit ish subjects or to neturals and if thii is not done, tine government will wind up the business. The purchas> money is not to be given 10 IVY owner of the business but to be re tained by the government until the end of the war. As Hongkong busi- ness is very much depressed at pres ent, this order means that the German owners will be compelled to part with their business at fraction of it; real value
 Tine order applies to bushes firms with a German partner, and several American ccScerns will be af fected in this way. A great deal oi German capital is invested in Hon"- kong enterprises and this order will practically confiscate all of their prosperity. A similar order has been issued in Singapore.
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