The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1918-03-01
AMERICAN and JAPANESE TROOPS
MAY HOLD Siberian ..RAILR0AO
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attacks the Terauchi ministry for its
inactivity, while the Yorodzu, another
influential Toxic paper, takes the
ground that the United States has de.
cided to force Japan into a more ac
tive part in the war and has placed
first its steel embargo and then its gen
eral embargo on all exports and i'm
ports to that end.
Excepting the despatch of Tshii
mission there has not been a single act
in the foreign policy Of the Terauchi
ministry that showed any spirit of ini-
tiative and efficiency. The government
has done nothing in connection with
the Russian revolution. II has re.
mnined indifferent TO the disturbance
at Hardin and other disastrous de-
velOphent Of the situation in Siberia.
As to the Chinese question il has done
worse than nothing This IL the way
the Asahi opens it's comments on the
foreign policy of the Terauehi minis
try.
"While our government thus re-
| mains inactive and Indifferent, the
Russian situation has developed from
bad TO worse and it is now virtually
under the control Of Germany. If it
goes on developing in the way it is
now, it will become no longer mere
| dreamy apprehension to think that
! some day in the near future German
| submarines will be threatening the
! commerce of the Far East and Ger
| man acroplanes flying over this coun-
try and bombarling the city of To-
kio. Some people are seriously think
nf
anxious to know what our government
| can do and means to do when this fear
| turns out well founded.
"Asde from the possibility Of such
immediate threat to the safety Of the
| people, there is no question but that
1 the German influence is fast spread.
| ing toward the Far East. When the
war broke out England, in order to
| protect her interest in India, mobiliZed
her troops to Persia at once and took
decisive action against Germany in
that region. The situation Of this
country in regard to Siberia seems to
be exactly similar to that of England
in Persia. Our government ought To
have taken similar step to protect
our interest.
"1t might be said that the Terauchi
ministry thought of that but was pre-.
vented from taking the step out of
its consideration for possible protest
and suspicion Of America and Eng
land as to our real motive. Such con
sideraton is not only wholly gratti
| tous but against the wishes of England
herself. England would have liked us
| to take the same step she took in Per
! STA, for if the interest of the Far East
| be seriously threatened, England, by
her obligation to the Anglo japanese
| treaty, will be bound to assist us tC
! ward off the German menace We have
1 the same obligation as to the English
interest in, India, and England's de-
eisive action I in Persia relieved vi
| from our anxiety in this respect. Just
in the same way, our decisive action
in Siberia will relieve England from
her anxiety about the protection of
the Far East against the common en-
envy of the world.'
Japan Must Enter War
| "When the American steel embargo
was first reported, we predicted, - says
the Yorodzu, "that it was challenge
1 to us to take a more active interest in
! the war The Terauchi ministry, fail
ing to see this, undertook a futile nego
tiation rs to the lifting Of the embargo
Our business men, too, made a consid
cradle fuss about it without knowing
why America enacted that embargo
They were all acting from their OWL
| selfish interests.
"FO America the war is a question
of life and death. She has Joined il