Bisbee daily review., 1915-03-25
Thursday Morning, March 25, 1918
JAPANNlNe CHINA


 The game of oriental diplomacy that is going iu Asia while the rest of the world is bused with the European war is a little too much for occidental minds to fathom But the goal at which the Japanese empire aiming in her devious negotiations plain enough Japan wants to gobbc up China; anl if the other pow CTS don't get busy without delay, Japan will either ceed in her ambition or else preciptate big in Asa to add to the general unsettlement of the world
 We do not want to think in of Japan We have al- ways admired the Japanese, and liked them, until cent clashes in California and elsewhere rufled ru ditional friendship little and increasing Japanese cockishness began to get on We to be ieve in Japans good intentions and her word at 100 per cent Nevertheless we are forced to recognzs once more that oriental ways are no. our ways hnd that underneath the elaborate courtesy of Japanese in tercourse there are ntrgues and removed from the usual blunt honesty of the Aneo-saxon
 When Japanese statesmen take such pains as they have taken in the past months Americans Of Japans pacific honest intentions it is natural suspect that there's a "nigger in the woodple" Tne hidden Ethiopian is so obvious that he cant be overlooked We are pretty thoroughly convinced that Japan doesn't want the Philppines-at least, doesn't want them badly enough to fight for them Why should she when she can grab eastern Asia, at hand end more healthful for Japs and richer in com mcrcial and natural resources?
 The first hint of broken faith came with Japan surprising rcpudauon of pledges Che world rc garding Kiao-Chau. Japan attacked and captured fha military and commercial stronghold of Germany vits the professed intention of restoring t to China from whom Germany had forced u as a 99yoar concession Count Okume the premier declared Aug. 24, "Japn has no ulterior motive no desire to secure ter rtory no thought deprivEg China other peoples of anything which they now possess" He said that the promise to restore Kiao-Chau to China would "as honorably kept Japan always keeps promises"
 Now it is given ou, in Tokio that Kiaochau and thc adjacent shautung peninsula will not be given up until the expiration of Germauys 9oyear lease, which ha. about so years more to run
 But Japan's recent demands on China together with her apparent duplcty putting them before the wocd are far more serious As presented to the Chinese gov ernmeut these demands numbered twrnty-one. As or ncay reported by ToEio to other powers ncludn- the United States the list included only eleven demands and even those were more than they appeared in the Chinese text The powers awoke after littlo with a start to discover the real nature of the impos' tions Japan sought lay upon China. She demando' many concessions for railways and mines a transie an Germany's rights at Shantung, supulatloh una China should not alenate or lease to other couutrie ports harbors or islands her coast guarantee O Japanese control over Chnas foreign loans and WOES of alI Chnas consent to employ influential Japanes subjects as advisers for conducting administrative hna cial and military affairs" In short she asked Chiu to sign away her sovereignty and admit Japanes suzeraiuty over the empire recently wrested iroi Mauehu control by the republican re7olutonists
 In uis Japan seems plainly to have. broken ial with the United States In official notes exchanged b Ambassador Takahira and Secretary of State Root i 1908 Japan acknowledged "the principle of equal oppo tuuity for commerce and industry in China" and d' clared 1t to be the common interest Of an the power to preserve by an pacific means at their disposal [" Independence and integrity China and Che principle equal opportunity commerce and industry of all m tons in that empire
 And Japan seems to be violating faith with h' own ally Great Britain, much as Fith us The LQ don Daily News pointing out the that acquieseen' in Japan's demands would put an China under Japa ese suzeranty" and equip Japan with '' Monroe 'o rne operative against an thc powers except Japan eoncluces that if the scheme succeeds .t win kneo fine, b.tem out Of bc Angle Jap1n--o n st, 'hieh '.