The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1915-08-06
EUROPE I51S ~ AND 1915

It matters not whether the central
states succeed in conquering Russia in
this present titanic struggle around
Warsaw, or even allied Europe history
will not grant unto the Kaiser place
among the chivalric, heroic leaders of
the world; because his warfare has
been based upon usages hitherto con-
demned by all civilized nations; his
conduct on land and sea has turned
back the pages of history to the age of
barbarism.
In the meantime it is question in
my mind if Japan will dare to aquiesce
in the conquest Of Europe by this gi-
gantic combination of power exhibit
ed by Germany and Austria Hungary.
Hitherto, Japan has been quiet OBJ
server of old country battles; will she
remain thus in the future?
If read the sign of the times
Alright, the handwriting has appeared
upon the wall; weighed and found
wanting; and the very existence of the
Empire of the Rising Sun is threaten
ed; for if Germany succeeds in bring
ing about the speedy close Of the war
by signing an honorable peace pact
with the warning nations, it is certain
that the next blow will be dealt to
Japan by the German-Austrian combin
alton. The teutonic pride has been
humbled by Japan's entering into the
struggle and the kaiser will never per
nit the oriental race to hold the lands
in China, which at the beginning of
the war were under the sovereignty of
Germany and which were lost to the
land of the Kaiser after the most stub
born campaigning against unlimited
hordes of little brown men of Nip
pom.
Knowing Japanese self-reilance and
self-assertion, as do i am confident
that Japan will try to put up strong
bluff, by holding a whiphand over the
celestial republic, and it is also cer-
tain that Germany, covered with glory
enthused with victory, smarting under
the blow received to her national pride
by Japan in the hour of her extremity,
thirsting for revenge for this seeming
insult, will call Japan's bluff. Will
Great Britain be able to succor her
present ally, Britain, perhaps barely
escaping complete dissolution of all
her boasted powers by land and sea :?
/ rather think that England will find
no response in the breasts of her
scions to fight for Japan; that Japan,
which is even now conspiring and in
triguing to curtail England's authority
in the Orient and which if possible
would rob England of her colonial pos
sessions. There can never be affinity
between the white and yellow races;
the old Saxon spirit will not permit
this.
Shall France come to the rescue
France, crippled, discouraged, weak
ened, tottering upon the brink of rev.
olution, weighed down to the earth by
billions of war indebtedness, can not
assist the Mikado's empire in the ap-
preaching crisis. Besides, France will
have to watch carefully her frontiers
and possessions in north Africa. Aside
from all these problems, the spirit of
the Frenchman is not in sympathy
with the race Of Nippon.
Shall Japan look to Russia in her
hour of distress? and will the land of
the Gar render assistance ! do not
think that a soldier will be moved by
the great Russian nation to help her
present ally, for the men of Russia are
still smarting under the terrific pun
ishment and humiliation received at
the hand Of Japan only little over
decade ago, and the Slavish race is
slow to forgive a wrong. Japan has
no friend among the nations of the
world, hence she must act now and
very quickly, if the mailed fist of the
Hohenzollern shall not be felt in the
island kingdom at the close of the
present European war.
/ am looking for the advance of
large Japanese armies by the way of
the trans-Siberian railroad to the
seat of theconfict before long; what
ever Japan statesmen do must be
done at once; for a conquered
Russia frees millions Of veteran troops
to be used in both the Western and
Italian campaign and with only a.
few thousand men of the reserve op-
posing allied operations in the west,
Germany has ben able to keep at bay
the combined armies Of England,
France and Belgium, what will she do
when her victorious armies are re-
leased in the East?
It is true that Japan has developed
very rapidly within the last few years,
and is ranking with the great world
powers; she has an immense army, a
navy, latest models Of UNDER
water craft, large fleet Of air ships
and nation Of men and women who
are fatalities in some respects and who