The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15
THE BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERAID SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 1918

dared that his greatest problem was to prevent the Kaiser from making re- marks which afterwards came back md required embarrassing denials and I heard of some Ameri- ,an congressman who were received in audience by the Kaiser while travelling through Berlin and to whom the Kaiser spoke freely of the Yellow Peril. When they returned to America some of them repeated the Kaiser's utter ances and they got into the local pa pers. The news finally reached the Japanese ambassador in Berlin and he promptly demanded an explanation from Prince Won Beulow, the chancellor at that time. It Is said that the prince, as before and since have done attempted to settle the difficulty by denying it's occurance. Why, the Kaiser wasn't referring to the Yellow Peril at all" he is reported to have said. "He was alluding to the yellow fever and it's prevalence among work CTS in the Panama canal zonei" GENERAL OPINION IN GERMANY
 The day England declared war against Germany, August 5, 1914, the Prince Von Pless called to see me pro- fessionally.
 There will be two wars fought" he said, oracularly. ''The present one, by which we shall gain control of the con- tinsnt of Europe forever, and then a war with the yellow races, in which we shall probably have your country to assist usl''
 That this opinion was more or less general in Germany may account for the fact that from the time war was declared until August 23, 1914, when Japan declared war against Germany the Japanese residents in Berlin were made the subject of the most sickening attentions. 1t was reported that Japan was going to attack Russia and the Germans could not do enough to show their newly-born admiration for the yellow race which they had hitherto so deeply despised. The Japs were carried through the streets on the shoulders of the populace and kissed and cheered wherever they appeared in public.
 And then Japan declared war against Germany! Instantly there was a wild
 demonstration in the streets of Berlin.
 which would have resulted most disas-
 trously for the Japs who had so recent
 ly been hailed as friends but for the astonishing fact that every single Jap
 had succeeded in getting away from
 Berlin before the news of Japan's en-
 try into the war became generally
 known. The Japanese ambassador in | D~tAiA hsN bCCi SiNCi diiplc tllflt Uy
 the home government in which to ar
 range for the departure of his country
 men when the moment came. A few who failed to get away at once were de- tained at the border and interned, but
 the great majority of them got across easily enough, as in the early days of the war it was not difficult to secure
 the necessary credentials. know that even as late as the spring of 1915, when I nd cured pass through our embassy and went to Geneva, Switzerland, for 10 days. Outside of having to answer a few ques- tions on the border, both going and com- ing, there was no difficulty.
 SIAMESE MINISTER SUFFERS Tn the absence of Japanese upon which to vent their spleen. the Germans did everything they could to make life mis- erable for those who resembled Japs. The few Chinese who were there were terribly treated either because they were taken for Japs or because they were of the same race. The Siamese minister, Prince Traidos, who was one of my pa tients, told me that when his wife and children went out on the streets the
 crowds followed them and jeered, refer ring to the Japanese as monkeys and using other opprobrious epithets. They
 even went so far as to spit in Princess
 Traidos' face, and the minister finally decided to send her and the children to
 Switzerland, although he himself re- mained at his post
 I saw the Kaiser shortly after the Japanese declaration of war, and he was very bitter against the United States De- cause of that development.
 .What is your President thinking of to allow yellow race to attack white race? Now the Japanese are attacking Kiau- Chau, and America could have prevented it. All that America had tc do was to raise finger and Japar would have known enough to keep he placer He spoke in this strain on several subsequent occasions.
 When Kiau-Chau fell he again crit icized the United States for not having stopped Japan.
 s.How can your President allow Japan to increase in power at the ex- pense of a white racer He asked, in l dignantly. Now China is lost to the world forever. America is the one power that could have prevented it, bu' now Japan has got her fingers or China and she, Is lost to us forever" After we were in the war. the Kaiser expressed to me his opinion that oul
 object in taking this step was four, I fold:
 l First" he said, wilson wants te
 save the money you have loaned to tn
 allies. Second, he wants to have 2 seat at the peace table. Third ht wants to give your army and navy 2 | little practical experience-unfortun ately. at our expense. And fourth, ant principally, he wants to prepare fol l the war with Japan which he knows | is inevitable. The Japanese are tht ones which your country must look upon as it's real enemies.'
 AMERICAS GREAT MISTAKE l A German officer of high standing | told me just before I left Berlin that America had made the great mistake of sending ammunition, guns and sup plies to Russia. via Japan, because l! Japan had just retained the finely
 made American articles and hal dumped on Russia lot of good-for. nothing material of her own in theil place. My advice to America" he de- clared, lis to cut the throat of every Japanese in America and get rid of the internal danger" He did not suggest n --ARa AulEEENEA