Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-09-04
German v, ter Doesn't Believe
Japan Is Driving Toward
MAD Adventure" Like War
Against America,
WOULD SURELY LEAD
TO HER ANNlHlLATl0M
Time For Sowing Discord and
of Menacing Neighbors By
Secret Treaties Is Declared
Past,
By NIaximIlian Harden.
1919, by The Press Pub
fishing Co.
(The New York World)
(Specia, Cable Dispatch.) }

Berlin, Sept. 3.-When Japan de-
munded Tsingtau a cry of raging in
dignation went through Germany
Never had the silent men of Nippon
hinted that Germany possession or
eastern Asiatic soil was vsxatious to
them. Now they have used the hour
of Germanys greatest need to place
brusquely' on record an assertion or
rights which belonged not to them but
to China, which they seem to regard
as their ward,
Kiaochow had cost us tall heap OF
millions, which Were lost with the
acquiescence OF the allies in this as
sertlon. Since. however Japan had
never previously entertained the
thought tthis acquisition--eyen as
| France had hoped never to let ltseH
into the war except TO the extent that
self interest dictated-the fire OF rage
here soon disappeared in smoke, Tor
there are other grievances more ur-
gent, which are voiced in reproaches of
disloyalty and of breaches Of alliance
against Italy and RoumaRia.
These reproaches are really without
reason, for those countries were neith'
er pledged to participate in a war de-
clared by Germany, nor were they
prevented by any agreement from
throwing the weight of their arms into
| the scale of the attacked side,
Japan really had obligations to Ger
man teachers and to the German atti-
tude which favored them in their war
against Russia. 1t seemed the height
OF ingratitude that they should fall
upon Germany with brusque ultima
tum. Yet they quickly have received
German conformation.
Their Interests Differ.
"They win need us vet, and we
will need them" one hears every
where. The quite unjustifiable rage,
as |, o preacher in the wilderness,
said hundreds OF times over the sup
| ply Of arms TO Germany's enemies
| by America, and the madness of the
miitarists, which suffered the de-
| usion that without war the con-
flicting interests of the great nations
| could not be disentangled, led to the
| following chain of thought:
Japan will not wait until the United
| States has finished arming and COM
pleting preparations against the Island
empire. Japan will act as 1t did with
us in 1914, by falling upon America
with an ultmatum, thereby forcing
upon England the difficult choice be-
tween the two nations.
This would change the whole face
of the results of the world war. 1t
would accelerate the triumph OF Ger
many by means of an alliance which
| would seek to lay down the law for
the whole world.
Not only Is the notorious note OF
the German Secretary zimmerman to
President Carranza Of Mexico an echo
Of this prospect. The memorandum
of Cen Ludendorff as recently as
September, 1917, lis to be taken even
more seriously, 1t is an abhorrent
monumnet of miiitaristic, anti-morai
policy making, for 1t led to talk of
future alliance with Japan which
forecast, beyond shadow of doubt, a
purpose to draw Holland within Ger
many's sphere by guarantees or by
threats affecting Hollands colonial
possessions,
Germany Relied on Japan.
For four years the German people
never heard that their armies had
suffered defeat or that their fleet had
incurred serious losses They heard
only of victory, not of the final tri-
umph of the allies. If the heaven Of
hope ever became clouded, then from
mysterious diplomatic sources came
the whisper:
I'VE still have Japan which con-
cluded firm alliance with lis during
the war with Russia, and which will
do nothing for the entente, for it
wishes to settle scores with America
and will not endure Englands tyran-
ny of the sea. Therefore, 1t spares
itself and strengthens its fleet and
finances. Japan still secretly plays our
game. Negotiations for this purpose
were inaugurated long ago, through
the best channels"
This was a tonic for hours Of peev-
ishness, and Kiaochou was forgiven.
The assertion that negotiations were
on was correct japan was to medI-
ate for separate peace with Russia
and seemed ready to dc SO. But |
never shared the hope which Will
helmstrasse set on these negotiations.
never believed Japanese interests
could wed with German interests.
/ Japan Not in Mad Adventure.
Marquis Ichiro Motono. who held
| the threads in his hand as Japanese
ambassador to Russia, and who did
not have far TO go. from Petrograd to
Stockholm, was from his early Pari-
sian days a friend of the entente
powers. Japan strictly adheres to its
reputation. As the youngest of the
great powers 1t wishes to be no less
respected than the oldest Surely IL
would not do anything which would
influence the world to pass verdict
that in matters of loyalty and of po-
litical morality yellow nation stood
below a white nation.
So far Japan has fulfilled every in
ternational duty with most punctilious
zeal. Should 1t now break its word
and turn away from the strongest
business concern the world ever saw:
Honor and advantage counsel against
it. s tF
Every one who dissents from my
conviction believes that Japan is striv-
ing toward q mad adventure which.