Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-20
pKEplcTs UNITED STATES WILL
Z aEcoME INVOLVED IN WAR
IN FAR EAST.
CHINA TO TURN AGAINST
HER NEi0HeoR, JAPAN
nuntx Believes HostiIitIes viii Break
Within Five Years and That France,
Britain and America Will Be Forced
to Become Partielpants-Seores Jap
ans Territorial Policies.

Des Moines, Sept 2O.-China ana
Japan will be at war within five years
and the strong probabilities are that
America, Great Britain and France
will be drawn into the conflict.
Bishop Homer c. stuntz, OF Omaha,
former bishop to China, here conduct
ing the Des Moines conference Of
Methodists, declared today that Japan's
high handed Prussian policies" If not
curbed. would set the whole east in a
turmoil unless the conservative ele-
ment gets into power.
Japan hates America worse than
any other country on the face Of the
earth" said the bishop. she feels
that America Is to blame for the eX-
posure OF her duplicity and deceit in
F; the twenty-one points. America, thru
our Methodist Bishop Bashford, the
American ambassador, exposed her bad
international faith"
Cites Shantune.
Japan also blames the discovery of
the true significance Of the Shantung
agreement on the United States. For
some reason or other, the contents OF
Tile sSCTSI treaty ptLNS cen E-L-S ldIlQ dL4NA
Japan. which promised the province OF
Shantung to Japan. have never been
made public property. Apparently the
promise and the agreement were OF
such a nature that they had to be
kept when the final peace treaty was
drafted.
The agreement is typical of Japan's
policy OF state. II is another example
OF the policy which she has pursued
for number Of years to get more
territory for her rapidly growing popu-
lation.
Her whole attitude is to bully China
into giving her that territory. Her
diplomats and the members Of the
party in control are Prussians. One
might almost call them the Prussian
party. Their policy IS disgraceful, and
one which China will not stand for
ever"
Trade Another Reason.
Japan's reason for her thievery. ac-
cording to the bishop, Is her popula-
ton and her desire for trade articles
which she requires for her national
existence,
Japan. today according to the
bishop, has a population Of 100000
people, Their entire territory amounts
to a bare $4,000 square miles, about
three times tho size Of the state Of
Iowa Her tillable area is estimated
by various authorities as amounting to
anywhere from $4,000 to $4,000 square
, miles. The rest Is swamps, marshes
and mountains, utterly unusable for
growing anything. Japan Is COM
PEELED to import all her lumber. and
a large per cent Of her food products,
Her people are crowded for room.
But instead of trying to buy more
land" added Bishop Stuntz, she tries
to get 1t by any means at her hands
whether honest or dishonest.
Paris Ignored Plea.
~Several Of US in the east when the
peace conference was in session, wrote
to Paris, urging that Japan be request
ed to buy land from China. Instead
came the Shantung agreement, giving
ono Of China's richest provinces TO
Japan.
Ever since the Russo-Japanese war
Japan has pursued her policy Of ma
ttonal bringandry. Led on by politi-
clans and diplomats, who We're with
out scruples and imbued with Prussian
tendencies, she has proceeded to hold
up other nations for what she needed
instead Of honorably buying it."
The bishop is pessimistic over con-
ditions in the east, fearful Of what
China, driven to desperation, may at
tempt. OF the alignment Of nations
in the coming struggle, which he de-
clares will come unless Japan forsakes
or is forced to forsake her present pol
icy. he can only surmise. But he does
state emphattcally that unless Japan
ceases her aggression. China will go to
war within five years for her natural
rights.