The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-12
Government Becoming Germanized
Through Yuan Shih.k ais Pro-
Teuton Leanings

across the Pacific in neutral bottoms to
the various ports OF China. IN readi-
ness, perhaps, for tho use to which
they are now being put uy President
Yuan Shih-k'ai.
Re this as it may, 1t IL a fact, con
tirmed from Russian, English and
Japanese sources, that the Dictator
of China has now at his disposal "a
very large body of highly trained and
able officers OF the reserve Of the
German army, who IN addition to
their military qualifications have a
very useful knowledge q? business
matters and of Industrial and COM
mercial questions: officers. moreover.
who have had the benefit of Ameri-
can experience n Oriental travel.
II will he readily understood that
the assignment of all these officers,
not only TO the Chinese army for the
training of h troops hut also to the
various civilian departments Of the
administration of the republic. IS GER
tain to resui in their influencing the
Chinese Government more and more
in the direction Of Germany. and In n
sense hostile to the Powers of the En-
tcntc. With German officials in the
Department of Foreign Customs and
Internal Revenue. in the Ministries or
Public Works, of Railroads and OF
Mines. i'm those of the Treasury. Of
Education, Of Agriculture. OF Com
merce, Of Justice. and Of the Interior,
these departments are bound To be-
come Teutonizcd, and trouble VIII re-
suit for all those foreign Powers
which do not look at matters from
exactly the same point OF view as the
head of the house of Hohenzollern.
And since the United states has for
some time past been in a very marked
degree in the bad graces OF Germany
and is regarded with extreme disfavor
by the Central Powers IN account OF
the resentment shown-tardy though
II wus-by the authorities at Wash
ington in connection with the German
and Austrian anti-munition- movement
over here. II follows that America will
suffer, politically and economically,
from Teuton predominancc at Pekin.
Yuan Shlh-k'ai in former times
showed SO marked a prediction for
the English. and especially for every
thing American. that many will be led
to ask what has led him TO transfer
his friendship and good will to the
Germans. The reason is not far TO
seek. II Is due to the association of
Great Britain and of the other Entente
Powers with Japan in the present war.
He has always entertained a par
tlcularly strong prejudice against tho
Japanese. and Is correspondingly de-
tested by them. Indeed, there is as
suredly no Chinaman whom they hold
IN n greater amount of adherence.
This mutual hatred dates from the
time when in 1888 Yuan Shih-k'ai was
sent by his patron III Hung Chang TO
maintain and consolidate Chlna's SUI
zerainty In Corea.
II was n difficult n delicate task
and quickly brought him into conflict
with the japanese, who were bent on
obtaining control Of the Hermit King
| dom. In command of the Chinese
troops in COrea he played n bold part
in the palace revolution at Seoul In
1854, when the Japanese Legation was
burned down and tho Corcan monarch
brought back for a time by Yuan to his
allegiance to the Emperor OF nina
As Dircctor-General of International
Relations of COrca-that was his ofii-
cial title--his efforts TO uphold the last
remnants Of Chinese authority, which
Russia, and more particularly Japan,
were each endeavorinS to supplant,