Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-02-06

Germans naiFely wrote their names 10
the lists for tennis tournaments, un'
conscious OF the fact that not a Brit
ish woman or Guild would tread the
same court with them. - ~< 80
! While this went on in Japan non
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 IL that were guar
anteed, the German government would
not 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-
iiyered 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. g
The Germans, one and all, bitterly
resented Japan's coming into the wal
game They could net accept the
same logic and plea of loyalty to an
ally by which they explained Ger.
many's stand by her ally, Austria
They recounted increasingly all that
Japan owed to Germany in military
and medical training, modern science,
and art and philosophy. Japan even
owes the life Of Jspan's emperor to
Germany, they said; since as a 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 rest
and no American made himself heard
with that perennial, age-worn claim
of the American after-dinner speaker
in Japan: I'VE did 1t ALI E., start
ed Japan in the path of modern sci.
ence and progress. Are I've" land
Commodore Perry" always, to be
crammed down the Japanese throat at
the Japanese banquet board by the
touring Americanfd Z .a.s= t3rt. - -
The German officials left, protesting
| the ingratitlIde 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 All TO have been safely
home in Germany before il began "A
most Illuminating break, which the
british circulated with gusto
There was, NO war thirst in Japan
mo lingering aninIesity or resentment
| at the advice of 1881 that had robbed
Them of Port Arthur, no race hatred
or cry of white peril when war was
declaredS elleetual' Japan ,grieved
deeply at the necessity. every army
surgeon and university professor. was
saddened at being arrayed against
IGNORED teachers, and was cut to the
tquick 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 empefor's official birthday, "as
prearrangeds'' they might have said;
for a party Of high officials, foreign
military attaches, and members of par
lament had been waiting for a fort
night in Toxic ready TO embark on 9
despatch boat to Tsfngatu to watch
operations in Shantung.'
The first lot of prisoners, u in all
and all captured on outpost duty, were
brought to Japgn early in October, and
assigned to Kurume, on the southern
tislalld, the headquarters Of the 18th
Army Division. They were received al
the station with ceremony by the mil
itary officers of the garrisons, by Mrs,
Kan1io and the members OF the local
Red Cross Society. Twisted them my
self later The men were quartered
IN Buddhist preaching -hall and class
rooms. the officers in the Lord Alb
bots rooms at the Bairingf 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 inyalids we're 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 regula-
tons, and the prisoners Information
bureau in Toxic permits communica-
ton, takes charge of any consign-
ments, and answers any letters of In
quiry concerning the captives. The
prisoners families may. join them,
rent houses in the towns, and the pris-
oners may live there with them under
light restrictions, as Russian prisoners
were permitted to do in 1904 and 1905.
Since the war began Japan has been
courted by all the powers in Europe
and directly and indirectly appealed to
for help. In season and out, M. Pr