Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-05

herman property Was injured, no ter
man molested. No ones German gov
erness. valet. or employee of any kind
was interfered with or imprisoned.
Germans naively wrote their names in
the lists for tennis tournaments, I'M
conscious of the. fact that not Brit
ish woman or child would tread the
same court with them.
While this went on in Japan nom
combatant Japanese were still detain-
ed in German prisons and the vigorous
representations OF the American am
bassador in Berlin were unavailing.
In October the German authorities,
through the American government, in
timated that the Japanese prisoners
would be released provided the jap
anese government gave similar guar
antee for the safety of German resi-
dents in Japan. If that were guar
anteed, the German government would
mot only release the Japanese, but
even afford them all facilities for de-
parture." On October -, through the
still more strenuous efforts OF Am
bassador Gerard, II japanese were de-
liyered to him and sent under en-
bassy escort to- Zurich, Switzerland;
but 3S japanese remained in German
jails, some of them the children of
Japanese residents in Germany.
The Germans, one and all, bitterly
resented Japan's coming into the war
game. They could not accept the
same logic and plea of loyalty to an
ally by which they explained Ger
many's stand by her ally, Austria.
They reeounted increasingly all that
Japan owed to Germany in military
and medical training, modern science,
and art and philosophy. Japan even
owes the life Of Japan's emperor to
Germany, they said, since as deli
cate child he was cared for by Ger
man physician. They proved so con-
vincingly that everything was due to
contact with German culture that for
once Commodore Perry had a rest,
and no American made himself heard
with that perennial, age-worn claim
of the American after-dinner speaker
in Japan: I'VE did it all E., start
ed Japan in the path of modern sci
ence and progress. Are I'VE" and
Commodore Perry" lalways to be
crammed down the Japanese throat at
the Japanese banquet board by the
touring American = 90 -
The German officials left, protesting
the ingratitude Of the world and ia.
pan why, this war was not to come
off until next spring. whimpered one
German officials incautious wife; land
then we were ali to have been safely
!, -, - a., s(s, An, a,,,, u aforo II hooor1s,a
most Illuminating break, which the
british circulated with gusto.
There was no war thirst in Japan,
no lingering animosity or resentment
at the advice of 1895 that had robbed
| them of Port Arthur. no race hatred
or cry of white peril" when war was
declared. intellectual Japan grieyed
deeply at the necessity; every army
surgeon and university professor was
saddened at being arrayed against
honored teachersa aud was cut to the
quick by the violent expressions of
German professors and officials. ia
| pan biting at Europe's heel, and rob
bing' and stealing Tsingtau,' often
raised peals of merriment..
The real bombardment of the inner
forts of Tsingtau began on October 81.
the emperor's official birthday, as
prearranged,'' they might have said;
for a party of high officials, foreign
military attaches, and members of par
| lament had been waiting for fort
night in Toxic ready to embark on a
despatch boat to Tsingatu ito watch
operations in Shantung." ~
The first lot of prisoners, a in all,
and all captured on outpost duty, were
brought to japan early in October, and
assigned to Kurume, on the southern
island, the headquarters of the 18th
Army Division. They were received at
the station with ceremony by the mil.
ftary officers of the garrisons, by Mrs.
Kamio and the members Of the local
Red Cross Society. i visited them my
self later The men were quartered
| In Buddhist preaching-hall and class
rooms, the officers in the Lord Abb
bots rooms at the Bairingi temple,
and the wounded men in separate
ward of the military hospital, where
| the chief surgeon and all his attend
ants spoke German. Officers, men,
and invalids were allowed to speak to
me freely, and one and all acknowl
edged the courtesy, consideration, and
unfailing kindness of the Japanese Off
GERS in charge. AS with the Russian
prisoners of war in 1904 and 1905, the
Japanese are doing "as The Hague
ordains," and then doing even lit
tie more for their charges.
The captiyes are kept at different
old castle towns, now headquarters OF
military divisions in the southern ISL
ands, in order to gain the advantage
Of mild winter weather. Buddhist
temples and preaching-halls have been
rented for such use, and are readily
adapted to the purpose. The prisoners
live under the most lenient reguia-
tons, and. the prisoners information
bureau in Toxic permits communities
ton, takes charge Of any consign-
ments, and answers any letters of in
1uiry concerning the captives. The