The sun., 1917-07-06
JAPAN FATTENS ON !
WAR, IYENAGASAYS
Mikado's Government Can
Spare No Ships to Send
Troops to Europe.

CHAUTAUoGA, y. Y, July 5,--Vttafs
ly interesting information concerning
Japsn's place in the.world war came to-
day from Or. Toyokichi Iyenaga, director
OF the East and West News Bureau.
The doctor spoke before the speakers
educational conference, which is being
held under the auspices OF the National
Security League.
Japan" he said, while blood and
treasure are being expended on the
European battlenelds with a prodigality
that staggers the imagination keeps her
youth intact, nay more, she presents the
anomaly OF belllgerent that has made
money out OF the war.
The war has brought TO Japan an
era Of prosperity never known before.
Her foreign trade has reached the billion
mark. counted In American dollars.
Japan Is lending money, to so-called
creditor nations. Her Investments in
bonds and treasury notes issued by the
Entente Powers since the beginning OF
the war amounts to over $500, 000, 900.
The gold reserve In the possession OF
the Bank of Japan and the Governments
amounts to over $500, 1000, 900"
The speaker explained that Japan had
come into the war as the result of her
treaty with England and that she had
cleared the Oriental trade routes. There
was no possibility of sending troops to
the battlefields, he said
Japsn'S Loyalty Pledged.
In addition to the fact that it is none
OF Japan's business to intrude herself
upon the European field" he said, there
are almost insurmountable difficulties in
the way OF despatching Japanese troops
TO Europe. In despatching 1,000,0 900
japanese troops it would require 4,000,-
600 tons Of shipping. or 1000 oceangoing
ships of 1000 tons each and a constant
| flow of military provisions Japan has
seventy ships of 5000 tons or moro.
| Were these to be Communicated for
| troop movements commerce in the East
would seriously suffer.
Japan stands ready TO do everything
| within her power to bring about tha
successful prosecution of the war against
common foe. Japan is unfalteringiy
loyal to her allies"
In a special message Franklin K.
Lane, Secretary of the Interior, said 1
1.-THE Power that threatens US in spirit
| and by act. that has told us where wa
can use the seas and to what extent.
that promises a world made up Of a rul-
ing class and subservient solciers, is in
Europe, not in America. and there we
have gone to meet It with Pershing ana
! with Sims.
This is to be a nation in arms for an
indefinite time. We cannot know how
| long. We have no delusions as to the
way being easy. For IL there is hor-
ror or terror or cruelty that has not
been used in this war there is but one
| explanation-it has not been thought Of
United states stands by Rights.
The captured civilian is enslaved !;
not sold, simply starved. Thus does
German science make war. To be a SOL
der now Is to summon the skill and
spirit of a scientists he'll and set II at
work without curb of conscience or hu-
manity.
THE. Uhited States would not sur
render to Germany what 1t ha6 fought
England to win-our rights upon tho
sea. The United States would not stand
aside with indifference until the world
had been stranglee into submission. Our
unwillingness TO participate was no pros
lection against plots and combinations
that would forever force us into the
business of making armies"
An objection was raised by DR..
Albert Bushnell Hart OF Harvard to the
alleged practice of the Government in
limiting offlcerships to the college men.
With other qualities equal, the son of
the machinist and farmer should have a
chance" he said Sinclair Kennedy of
Brookline, Mass. said college men
should be willing to go in as privates.
Charles j. Edwards of Brooklyn, vices
president of the Aero Club of America,
declared similar restrictions held in the
aviation service.