Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-30
TWenty-fitth Inf. Captain May.
Recommend Company Be
Returned to Honolulu
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HlLO. July -7-ThaJ there Is big
chance Of Company B, 18Th Infantry
h.. s.nt tack TO Honolulu or els"
~ o7d.~ being issued that will create
. .G.>" zurr uruunt lilo, : the latest
dryrIopm~ nj The situation is srri-
Gus "n,. and II is known that Captain
MCNab OF the 18th Infantry. IS deter,
mlnrd to put al md to the Illicit sell
ing OF booze TO his men. The respec-
table hotels and saloons are not do
ms anything a.Cng this line. bu. r.anT
pird piCgerS and others IT" declared
90 be- giving the aU.GI"rN Iii I'll" liquor
they can pay for.
The attention o. t. shcr!Ft and the
license commissioners has been
brought to the matter That deter
mined effort should be made by the
license Inspector and the police Dc.
partment to stamp out the hundreds
East and the second KussOJapaEes"
war dIcd a complete and permanent
death with the fall Of autOcrdc! H.
indeed. it diI not die on the FRI o.
Jaly. 1915. when the RUssO-JapanoSH
Alliance was signed
Moreover. Japan's attack on she
ria would net advance the cause OF
her Allies If Russia wer" actually TO
JOIN Germany and take up arms
, against her former Allies in Europe,
Japan could not stop her from carry
ing her pl2n out by invading Siberia
Japan could not march through SIDE
ria and attack Moscow. The utmost
she would be able to do would be to
take the maritime province east or
the Amur river; and there would be
the ond of her military activity. That
! in no wise would affect the var front
: in Europe Fer under such CirCum-
stances, neither Russia nor the
TeutCnic Allies would think it wise to
! divert enough force from the Euro
! pean fronts to the Far East to in
| fluence their European operations.
| But would not the Pacific provinces
OF Russia be a tempting prize for
| Japan to seize-especially when the
other members of the Entente Allies
would urge her to do SO? No eager
/ and ready yes" to the above Ques'
/ tiOn will be forthcoming from Japan.
For such war is a war of conquest,
pure and simple. 1t means also the
creation of a second RussO-Japanese
war-which is happily and effectively
dead now. Another, and a rather
pertinent, query is whether Japan is
financially and economically able to
carry out a scheme Of conquest OF
that sort Leading economists OF
Japan would be bitterly opposed to
it. including such men as Baron Ia
kahashi, Prof Tsumura and all the
rest who oppose what is called the
continental policy" of Japan.
Besides, the maritime province is
not such a glittering prize as is gen.
orally supposed There is a mistaken
idea that the Primorsk is a prom
ised land of flowing honey and milk
that it is a vast agricultural won
derland Nothing is further from the
actual truth.
Attitude of the United States
And then there is the United
States. When Japan drove the Ger
mans out of Kiaochao American pub
lie opinion was not slow to point the
finger of condemnation at Japan. The
American press was filled with the
picture Of Japan driving the first
wedge in her unholy scheme of the
conquest of China. The occupation
of the maritime province of Siberia
would look in the eyes of the United
States like the birth of another Ger
many in the Far East. And Japan
would be much blacker and more
sinister in American eyes than the
Germany in Europe because Japan Is
nearer to the United States and be-
cause she is a yellow power. And
Japan would not like that at all. That
is about the last thing that Japan
would like to see of all the black per
turbations of international politics.
For. after all. it is the attitude Of the
United States which fences out Japan
from the Asian continent, as we'll as
from the Americans on this side OF
the Pacific, certainly infinitely more
effectively than Russia does.
Then, too, Japan has learned a good
lesson with korea-a lesson she is
not likely to forget soon-namely, it
is neither pleasant nor profitable to
make YOUR neighbours country part
Of your own This is utterly contrary
to what some of the American papers
say about the sinister design of Japan
on China; but never mind them, it
is true When she can have all the
wealth producing advantages in Man
churia and in the maritime province
of Siberia without the annoyance and