The sun., 1919-07-23
FOREIGNERS MAKE
TROUBLE IN JAPAN
Much misunderstanding Due
to Ignorant Criticism by
Newcomers.
BY MILTON h. M'INTOsH,
Formerly Special Assistant to the Naval
Attdche, Toxic.


AttGche, Toxic.
As 1 recall the last years spent I'm the
Orient, Yokohama with its mangled
Russo Bolshevik community; Toxic with
its Unconditional surface and deep under
current; Osaka with it's Western COM
mercial atmosphere; Kobe with its
Asiatic Hog Island and shipping mill
lionaires in the background: Seoul with
its Corean statesmen settling down to
a realization of their part in the pres
ent and future political Japan; Moukden
with Its handful of vigilant fore gners
| attending 20 Japan's business Vladi-
| vostock with its nucleus of an allied mill
| tary garrison; Hardin with its broken
down Russian-Chinese condemnation !;
| Shanghai with its ever increasing num-
| Der OF foreigners not wanted elsewh re,
and finally Pekin with its topheavy
group of foreign advisers. official and
| otherwise, all stand out in my memory
and pass in review.
During the war Yokohama presented a
continuous scene of political and COM
mercial activity. All persons going to or
| coming from any point in eastern Asia
stopped here. Some came on business,
some pleasure and not few belonged TO
|
ments. both allied and enemy.
1t was in Yokohama where the notori-
Gus Catarau (Rumanian) was arrested
by the Japanese and deported. suspected
Of being a German spy. Here scores OF
| being a German spy, Here scores OF
American draft dodgers were congre-
| gated, bearing all manner OF passports
In Yokohama was a section where lodged
large group OF Russians who had
taken out their first papers in the United
States and who were travelling with Rus
sian Gold Government) passports. These
fellows. having attempted to reach Boil
shevih Russia via Vladlvostok and Har-
bin. and finding 1t impossible to get
! through, were forced to return. Their
status as Russians precluded the Ameri-
| can or British Governments granting
them vises to return to America ; so here
they were trying to prove by their first
papers that we should consider them q
Americans; In some cases they were Of
fering brides to our consular officials 10
pass them through.
In the foreign community of this
unique Japanese city We find the citi-
zens living In foreign style, reading for
eigh newspapers, eating foreign food
thinking foreign thoughts end passing
foreign judgment on things political hap
pening there; the hotels catering 10
tourists furnishing nothing but foreign
food; in short, there is no effort put
forth by the foreigners to either study OF
assimilate any OF the native thought OF
to become even very well acquainted
with the life, politics or spirit of the ma.
tives. 1t Is to the dangers attendant
upon this unnatural state OF residence
and the freedom with which our ma
tionals comment on the affairs of those
Oriental peoples that l wish TO invita
particular notice.
A careful study OF the course thi,
system takes as manifested in just thii
one Japanese city will give a fair ides
OF It's workings. In the Grand Hotel, ar
American institution, the guests gather
In the Hobbies and over few Scotch
highballs or at their afternoon teas en-
gage in discussions which seem to al
! ways end in a general denunciation O
the japanese. The hotel. while Amer