Payette enterprise. (Payette, Canyon Co., Idaho) 1909-1935, 1918-10-24
CHAPTER VII.


| ton was that Japan's power would bt
used against America at the first on
| portunity. Whether the object of this
campaign was to stir up trouble be
tween Japan and America or only t.
awaken this country to a sense of the
danger which the Germans professeC
to believe threatened her don't know
l do know, however, that prospect OF
Japanese-American war seemed tC
worry the Germans considerably more
than 1t worries US.
TIE day England declared wal
against Germany, August 8, 1914, the
Prince Won 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-
tinent Of Europe forever, and then. a
war with the yellow races, in which
we shall probably have your country
to assist usi'
That this opinion was more or less
general in Germany may account for
the fact that from the time war was
declared until August %, 1914, when
Japan declared war against Germany,
the japanese residents in Berlin were
made the subject of the most sicken-
ing 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 hither-
to 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.
In the absence of Japanese upon
which to vent their spleen, the Ger
mans did everything they could to
make life miserable for those who re-
sembled laps. 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 patients, told me
that when his wife and children went
out on the streets the crowds followed
them and jeered, referring to the jap
anese as monkeys and using other op-
probrious 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 Switzer- |
land, although he himself remained at |
his post.
1 saw the kaiser shortly after the |
Japanese declaration of war, and he |
was very bitter against the United |
States because of that development.
"What is your president thinking of |
20 allow a yellow race to attack a
white race! Now the japanese are at
acking Kiau-Chau, and America could
nave prevented it. All that America
lad to do was to raise a finger and
Japan would have known enough to
,eep her placer
He spoke in this strain on several
occasions.
When Kiau-Chau fell he again crit
cized the United States for not having
topped Japan.
"How can your president allow
apan to increase in power at the ex-
ense of a white racer" he asked, in
ignantly. "Now China is lost to the
World forever. America is the one
ower that could have prevented it,
ut now Japan has got her fingers on
nina and she is lost to us forever"
After we were in the war, the kaiser
to me his opinion that our
bject in taking this step was four
Did:
First" he said, "Wilson wants to
ave the money you have loaned to the
lilies. Second, he wants to have a
Eat at the peace table. Third, he
ants to give your army and navy
tile practical experience-unfortu-
ately, at our expense. And fourth,
nd principally, he wants to prepare
IT the war with Japan which he
nows is inevitable. The Japanese are
lie ones which your country must look
pom as its real enemies"
A German officer of high standing
Id me just before l left Berlin that
merlca had made the great mistake
sending ammunition, guns and sup
les to Russia, via Japan, because
pan had just retained the finely
ade American articles and had
lmped on Russia a lot Of good-for-
'thing material of her own in their
ace. my advice to America" he de- |
nred, SIS to cut the throat Of every
panese in America and get rid of {
e internal danger" He did not sug- !
st cutting the throats of all the I'M Y
sirable Germans who were In Amer