The sun., 1919-09-13
TOXIC PAPERS HELP
FOSTER U. S. HATRED
Reported Thousands Slain IN
Race Rioting of Whites
Against the Blacks.
GERMANS TO SEEK TRADE
Y. NJ. c. A. Secretary Says On,
Soldiers in Siberia Wed
Russian Girls.
GERMANS TO SEEK TRAnp

The Japanese newspapers exarss,,,
the reports OF the Chicago and wash,,,.
ton race riots to such an eS,en. ,,.,
Herbert Griffin, who has tust re,n,r,,
from year and n half In siborio -,
Japan where he was II Y. NJ g
secretary with the American Exnedl,,oo
airy Forces, said yesterday that bo a.
pected to find those cities in ashes
One report that is credited througbo,,
japan was that over 100000 whitos snS
blacks had fought pitched battles IN ~.
streets OF Chicago and thousands hos
been slain. Mr. Griffin said mi, /.
propaganda fostered by the Jspan.,s
Government to make the peoplo bslIsrs
that America Is prosecuting the blaeS
race.
There Is strong feeling OF unfr,sna.
Illness to this country in Japan. NJ
Griffin said, and the papers are prlnt.
ing false and exaggerated tccounts n,
conditions hero In order 10 discrtdit m,
United States.
German Influence Dead tn Japan,
German influence in Japan is dad
according TO Mr.. Griffin, but in parts a,
Asiatic Russia he visited Il is still str,nv
and he predicted that Germany would
again control Russian trade when N,
peace treaty releases her commerce,
Articles of German manufacture ar,
abundant IN the Far East Germany
before the war undersold Japan in her
own field, Mr.. Griffin said, and he az.
poets to see these conditions return
The 1000 American troops which has,
now bes~ in Siberia for about eighteen
months have only one thought-when
will they come home. They are guarding
allied property with English and French
soldiers and outside OF few minor
brushes with isolated bands Of Bolshs.
Wiki they have had nothing to break the
monotony OF picket duty.
In Vlndivostok half tho girls talk
English now. Mr.. Griffin said They
have picked II up from the American
and British soldiers, who fratcrnize with
the Russian girls as readily as they dh
with the French. Some Of them have
n arried Russians.
Mr.. Griffin operated a motion picture
OUTFIT on the Siberian Railway II was
set up on n freight car and he Travelled
from Vladlvostok to Omsk showing pic.
lures where they never had been seen
before. Russian peasants stood in open
mUuthed amazement before the screen.
Chinese Boycott japanese.
In regard to Shantung, Mr.. Griffin
believes the Japanese are sincere in their
promise to return It TO China. There Is
we'll established boycott against Japan
In Shanghai, and the Chinese merchants
put up signs In their shops stating no
Japanese money will be accepted
On the day Of the armistlce Mr. Griffin
was In Vladivostok. There was no cele-
brstion there, he said. The Russian at
titude was that the war was over for
We stern Europe but not for Russia.
Bolshevik atrocities that far outdid
any charged to the German army were
told by Mr., Griffin. In one town near
Omsk the Bolsheviki took the prisoners
out of the jails and murdered every
second one. Their bodies were thrown
Ia a cellar and still lie there.
Czecho-Slav soldiers carry grenade
or their belts which they use to end
their lives If necessary rather than be
taken prisoners and tortured by The
Bolsheviki.