The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-01-31
JAP ANESE ADOPT
SPORTING MANNER
TOWARD CHINESE
Better Relations Between
Races Exists Now in
ManChuria.
,BU Times SDcci0L


NEW YORK. Jan. S1.--A sport:
attitude, adopted by the Japanese
residents of Manchurla toward
Chinese living there, is responsible
for distinct improvement in feeling
tiob in the opinion of e. Carlton
Baker, personal representative of
Chang Tso.lin, war lord" of Mukden
and strong man of North China.
While the conflicting forces of
bolshevism and conservatism come
closer each day to open warfare i'm
North and South China. Baker,
former American consular official in
the Far East, has chosen to take n
six months rest near the busy hum
Of New York life.
Seen at his office near the Broad
way theatrical district this man
who has been close to Chang during
many of the crises which have EN-.
dangered the life of the war lord
away from the discussion of Amerin.
can; British and Japanese warshipVI
action to- protect foreigners in
Hankow, South China. lie did not
care to predict the outcome OF
hostilities in China except to suggest
that things always moved slowly in
that section of the world in the past
and to indicate that they might move
the same way in the future.
He had much to say about improve
ment of friendship of Chinese and
Japanese in Manchuria, a section
where Chinese and Japanese bust.
ness men predominant and one which
has often been the battle-ground of
Russian, Chinese and Japanese
armed forces.
"You might even put what I say
on the sporting page" said Baker.
For it is about sport that l wish to
talk, and in particular the sporting
proolivities of the Japanese.
you might have noticed a decided
change in policy in the last few years
among the Japanese in official po-
sitions in Manchuria. They treat
other foreigners in a much more
sporting manner. Many men familiar
with conditions think it is because
the civil party in Japanese politics
has begun TO be powerful, and has
overridden old Japanese militaristic
ideas"
But this adviser of Chang Tso-lin
believes that the change is due pure.
ly to development Of sportsman
like spirit by the Japanese.
There is not day in Manchu ia
when the Japanese are not engaged
in some sort of athletic contest, and
often foreigners are there com
petitors," he said. This has de-
veloped a sporting spirit. In thm
winter there are ice hockey al q.
skating and in the summer swim.
ming, tennis, baseball and track
events. And their rivals always look
upon the Japanese as good sports"
Baker has been in the Far East %
years, having held consular posts
in MulIden, Annoy, Antung, Chungk-
ing. Foochow and in NagasaR,
Japan before accepting the present
post with Chang.
one of his most recent experiences
with armed bands came when he
was on a visit to the International
Banking Corporations branch office
in Hardin, While he was talking
to the manager of the bank an un.
der official rushed in asking for a
revolver.
"The Hunghutbas will attack Us
within an hour" the excited bank
official said. The Russian red
boards. which their name means
in English, did not attack when they
| learned that the Americans had
rallied a supporting force about the
bank. But, says the warlord's ad.
wiser, Americans in that section of
the world have come to regard raids
civil wars and the like as very much
part of their daily life.