The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1920, Page 11

CENSORSHIP HIDES THEM FROM WORLD Army of Secret Agents Is Fomenting Uprisings in China. A Japanese militariem boas “outranks the Prussia of be the war" and which “follows rn the steps of Germany and Tur key” in its greed and inhuman brutality, is described in a let ter received bere from Dr. Watts 0. Pye, Congregational missionary, stationed at Fen chow, Shansi, China. Dr. Pye is known in church cir eles here His letter graphic athis first-hand ft m P Japan today Until recent nsorship ‘WAS successful ng ite real @oings from the w rid Japan maintains a governme that Is absolu militaristic and bureaucratic with a constitution gov @rned by the will and whims of the emperor WOMEN TORTURED, CHILDREN KILLED In Manchuria, Shantung and Ko Tea in the last months, the Japs have been murdering helpless men, women and children; torturing wo- Men and young girls and practicing “refi cruelty not ‘excelled even by the Turk in the treatment of Armenians” Christians are being tm Korea and China A Jap system of espionage enters fmto the affairs of Chinese, Man churians and Korean, and has even invaded the private rooms of Amer teans Jap agents are everywhere. Bands @f bandits openly admit they are in _ the pay of Japan. Jap propaganda spread broadcast intimidated he militarist party controle the and the thought of the people (The moral siump of Europe and the MParis decisions have strengthened Mhe hand of this party The letter from Dr _ tolows “Some of you are wondering why Pye, in part place in seeing Japan follow in t steps of Germany and Turkey fm the second place it seemed better for the facts of what was taking place out here to get home and peo ple understand beyont! a doubt what Japan has in mind. e “We found when we were home that we could not tell the truth | . about conditions and have people| willing to accept it Altho we then knew clearly, as did everyone in the Orient, just what Japan's con s duct was and what her purpose in the agreement she was trying to put thru the United States, American | opinion was at that time so Japan jaed t truth could find no recep. - tion “Up to that time the censorship was so successful t little of her! real doings had leaked out to the < outside work But it is sow im , possible to longer conceal the truth of mor does Japan herself longer try fa to do #0. Testimony plentiful, spe gific, and authenticated, as to what she has dor® and is today still doing sin Korea and in China, must stop mouths of those who were in glined to rebuke some of the carlier rumors as slanders “Japan is the only ing rank among the ere: nation r powers @hich maintains a government that fs absolutist, militaristic and bu reaucratic in character. In ‘ fespects it outranks the Prussia of before the war. EROR OF JAPAN 18 ABSOLUTE MONARCH “The constitution under Japan is governed owes its author ity solely to the personal will of the emperor and he can suggest § an amendment to retair Ger that far powers, and elected leg chamber i* gi much lees author. ity, than was recognized or provided for by the old Prussian constitution which it. He «un greater instrument the This is now beginning to be under stood at home. “The sober truth is at last recog: pized that during the war, and espe dally during 19 the allies did not have o firm c mfidence in the loyal ty of Japan. Japan had twice re fused to agree that China should come into the war on the side of the allies, and when her consent to that accession to the allied cause given it was because it was finally had been purchased at a high price namely, that at the end of the war Japan should obtain Shantung and the rights there, as well as th ic islands once held by Germany wth of the equator eeand it Is now known that this v cs jon was given only because the fear that otherwise Japan puld change sides in the conflict, was it revealed to President | on till the last moment in Paris. PATIONS WORS! HAN IN TURKEY Wt now known even to ds what Japan has been doing months in Manchuria, Ko- 1 and Shantung—the shooting and of helpless men, women and the beating up of prisoners in Section Two RUSS We do not write more about the sit uation between China, Japan and Korea. Perhaps we should have done so if it might contribute to the) clearing up of the understanding of conditions. AMERICA SO JAPANIZED TRUTH HAD NO CHANCE “But for one thing we were foo} heartsick at what had been taking ciaim- | her | “With the vision of these things ( ties) in mind and always before one’s eyes, always been easy to be The IANISM IS OUTDONE BY JAPAN; MISSIONARY TELLS OF KOREAN CRIMES panese atroci- it has not the so-called patient with ‘friends’ of Japan who refuse to listen to truth, who apologize for her acts, and who label those who know and try to speak the facts as afflicted with Japano- phobia, and who say that in spite of it all we should have a ‘friendly “It was tanding of th the thetic under was massacring bility. me en sus n young the stripping of sirls to be streets and a further them which for re and inhuman brutality was apparently not excelled even by the Turk in the treatmpnt meted out to the Armen chile th believable in operation to drive thru th ot ven eat ned ment cruelty and un an wor and was set infamous teh official prestige miss heme w backed by out the Tsingtao. eng ed which make Manchur of su well to enter for intimic WY Chinese Korean an ob} y foreigner a eas the polic a the 1 which women's rooms dle of the night without “Dr. and Mrs. Patton, secre tary of our own American board, passing a night In Korea, had to submit to this, The bedroom in whieh they were sleeping was | entered without notice and they | were rudely inspected for the | benefit of the police, while un | Protected women have repeated: ly been called upon to submit to rough men entering their bed- rooms and searching their per- sons and clothes. “Japan has her agents all thru the country, here in Fenchow and all thru our field. In the tour of three months last fall I wha* constantly coming in touch with their work “Bands of bandits numbering Into the thousands are led by men who even 4. openly admit that they and their men are in the pay of Japan. Two of the three most notorious among Japan Japanese agents have scattered literature far and wide in the prov- inces west seeking to bring about a | rising of the Mohammedans against are returned | the Chin “government. Bishop White told me in Shanghai that in! | Kat Feng-Fu they did their best to/ bring about a break by the Moham- |medan leaders but they remained | loyal to the government fem oF SPIES | WORK FOR JAPS | “An army of these agents fille the country as did those of Germany in |the United States during, the earller part of the war and just preceding our break with Germany. These {constantly embarrass and block the! government in its efforts. These facts are now admitted ‘by the Jap. |anese themselves and cannot be de and| nied even by those who blindly seek | | to uphold her. "The mad thing, the regrettable thing, is that much of what bhal me to paas might nd Japan emnation have been avoid. spared much of the which is now given cond her had her friends been wiser. Her best friends, or those who count themselves as such, have been her worst enemies. Had they been will ing to face the facts, and instead of | blindly, neeking to apologize and con ceal the truth had given her wise, jfrank and kindly advice and criti cism, the Japanese leaders would | never hi had the courage to do | much they have done | “Japan ix sensitive to the attitude of the rest of the world for her. She wants to stand well in the esteem of | Western geoples. And whenever she | has seen that she could not get away with any scheme without injuring her reputation she has changed her [eourse, Japan Ras much that one admires, and as I 1 at the begin- ning, her course the past four years makes heartsick MILITARIST PARTY NOW IN CONTROL “There are two distinct Parties in pan. The one, the militarist party established along Prussian which is now in power and ts respon- sible much that has been done. This party controls even the thought of the people, The press of Japan |is controlled to a di cree not equaled Jeven in Bismarck’s day and is soon responsive to ‘any powers that be ‘This explains the fact that not till long afte® the events did the first inkling of what was taking place Korea leak out in Japan itself or to the world at large, xcept as tak out by individuals and accounts | prin from time to time the past 12 years. I say 12 years, since that in the time I have been in the East and have heard about them. ‘The interpretation which the Jap-| anese people and the world hears of} what has been done and is being| done in Manchuria tung at this moment is something very different from the actual facts. “The second party is that with growing democratic tendencies in sympathy with the trend of the reat of the world ry effort should be put forth to strengthen the hands of the ty the Korea and Shan- “But decisions of the peace Pa-| conference which we had so heped| made might end war have sown more wide-| |ly than ever the seeds of war, and| the League of Nations, which might| have been the means of stopping all such tendencies, has become the in- strument to uphold amd enforce jsecret treaties and unjust measures ‘between nation and nation “The moral slump of Europe is to |my mind the saddest thing in con nection with the war. All this has strengthened the hands of the mili- tarists in Japan and weakened the |hands of those who are struggling jfor higher ideals. The Paris deci- sions delayed the day of democracy Armenians. students trom | lines, | suggestion of the| in| sympathetic understanding of Japan.’ overal times on my tongue to ask these peo- ple whether they were maintaining a friendly, sympa- while it impossi- Turkish It e empire is an and tr ress tn Japan by tn dorsing policy of militariats A a has been #0 Japanned by the interpretation of Oriental affairs which the govern it with thru the Japan in New York that there of many a predispost h when It is re. I had not realied until we went hom furlough to what extent ta had gone, 1 remem: times when in converns to the tes which were being practiced and had béen for years upon helpless peo: tion reference was made eru ple in Korea and China, exception | was at once taken and the whole! thing pronounced fictitious and the product of antiJapancse feeling "Yet I knew of hundreds of cases, as people at hoi must also know! now, of crueland inhuman treatment} which make ¢ heart burn with indignagion—st { girls being cted to all of outrages are unprintat RL OF BRIGHTER: KICKED IN THE FACE For instance, a young gt 18 years old was arrested on sus picion of having spoken against Japanese aggression. She was kick- ed in the face and struck with swords #0 that she became unconact ous from the blows, When she re covered her senses she was made to| kneel de with her legs bound to-| gether and each question and answer | agcompanied alternately by blows on the face | “They called her all sorta of in-| a nt names. They tore her upper garments from her. They tied her| fingers together and jerked them | Violently Still maintaining her sb lence the rest of her clothing was jtorn off her. The rest of the story! t be related. Nor t this an extreme case. For the past 10 years «tories of cruelty like this have been constantly com 1 nearty wn ing to our knowledge in Korea, in Mancburia, in Shantung and in our own clty. “It is but @ short time since on the | atreet in Fenchow a respectable busl- jnews man was beaten to Jelly by |Japanese for no other crime than | that In the boycott of Japanese goods he refused to allow a Japanese sign | to be pasted on his shop front and) | tore tt down when put up, “The best discussion of the whole Shantung question is in Asia Maga- zine for September, 1919, and Far | Eastern Review, June, 1919. or China's defeat at the peace confer-| |fnce see Asia for April and July }1 For both of these and the | Korea situation see Missionary Her jald, January, 1919, Congrekational for October 19, 1919. and January 16, 1920, and Missionary Review of the World, February, 1920. KEEP COOL! | in hiking} Summer atyles suits for girls are not going | to cause papa to worry much, \for they will be cheap and of as little material as \possible. Here is Miss Le| | Verne Wheeler, a San Fran- cisco hiker, who roams the! hills of Marin county in a| light “middy,” runnin 9g) trunks, golf stockings and) good stout shoes. The girl hik- wr is getting to be quite an} institution in California and} every Sunday sees thousands of them making for the wood- ed hills about San Francisco bay. | orously jable inainus | Germany | pressor. |Two Are Jailed “SI ATTL Bk, WASH, & PREMIER OF NIPPON = SCORES U.S. Our Senators Endangering Peace of the World, Says Okuma HONOLULU = May = 10.—-""You're another" i» Japan's answer to cer tain Americans’ charge that the flowery kingdom ip the “Prussia of the East.” At jenat that’s the retort af Mar quis Okuma, former premier of Japan, who is quoted in af iilumin ating article on American and Japa: | nese relations by the “Jiteug here with accusing the United States of rying ¢o dictate to the world.” “Judging from the attitude of the United States,” says the “Sage of Waseda,” “we fear America will Invite catamities of & more seriaus nature than those which Germany provoked.” The marquis styled the made by United States upon his following the f ference, “outrageous be havior,” and counters with the acew sation that America hes shown ag greanivenens in the taking of Texas from Mexico and the Philippines and other islands from Spaih that give ber no license to charge impertalis tie ambition against his land. WANTS END TO RECRIMINATIONS The expremier prays that « speedy end may come to reerimina tions between the two nations and that thru a “real understanding of the mission of each other” the pons bility of future conflict shall be re moved forever Says he “The whole world arrayed itself against Germany that tried to rule | the wadd with iron and blood. Japan, for the mike of humanity and | Justice, stood by the allies and/ wrested Tsingtao from the Germans She sent her warships to the Medi terranean and to the South Pacific ocean and Hawaiian waters to pro tect the allies from the Hun men ace. She protected the merchant ships of her allies and sent her sone to the Siberian front to fight the Germans and Austrians “The United States hand, observed neutrality In the be ginning and devoted herself to trade expansion. Only when her trading ships were gunk by ruthless German U-beats did she finally stand up. DECLARES AMERICAN FEELING CHANGED attacks enators country The United States and Japan made common cause against a com on foe. The Inhil-Lansing agree ment was Aoncluded with the object of guaranteeing peace in China and on the Pacific, with Japanese war ships protecting America's island ter ritory. The friendship of the coun tries was probably at ite zenith. But as Germany fell on her knees the American feeling toward the Japanese suddenly changed. At the peace table in Paris, America and China stood together to slander Jap an. With the exception of a few, the American papers and magazines vig attacked Japan, the y journals particularly hurling unbear. tons. “Not only the press but responsi ble statesmen in the sacred halls of the senate chamber boldly denounced Japan, They called Japan an ag kressive nation, a warlike nation, the of the Orient and an op- They en went so far as to call Japan a robber who ought to be punished by force of arma. Their Outrageous behavior was that of |statesmen who knew no International courtesy SENATORS DENOUNCE JAPAN VEHEMENTLY vever in the history of the world have I seen an instance where sena tors of a country denounced a for eign country more vehemently than did the senators of the United States in their speectios against Japan “As @ result of her participa- tion in the World war, German rights in the East ought to fall into the hands of Japan. The Chino-Japanese treaty and the peace conference recognize Jap an's right to sequire German rights in Tsingtao. The world oe te the decision as re | Woman Dies on NEW YORK, May 10. Witton Japan has announced many a W. to H bel | eer Leaps on ecole || time that she would restore to China ay to Fiospital) nicnt vy a sturdy Briton, ‘That | the former German possedsions in| It was probably an overdose of|is, the sturdy one belleves himealt| Kiochau and that this restoration |*tryebnine that killed Mrs, May 8,/to be one of the finest products will be only a matter of time, But) Haines, wife of Roy T. Haines, presi-|of his o, Others insist that his to return Tsingtao to China just on|@ent-manager of the Realty Ex-|family shipped him out of the unt of threats from the United |¢hange, at her home at 4631 First| country because they could not put « would be humiliating to Jap-|4V@ N. EB. She was rushed to the} up with him in England, The who can and will solve voluntar-| Clty hospital but physicians declared| sturdy one specializes here in question without any outalde ynce “There is no good reason why the United States should be the only country suspicious of Japan.” Sunnydale Nene Dies of Injuries Margaret Kjosterud, Sunnydale nfirse who was injured by a Lake Burien street car Friday, died at Providence hospital Sunday after- noon, The body is at Bonney-Wat- son's, pending | funeral arranfments, for Knife Fight Filomena Ala, Filipino waiter at 604 Main et. is in jail Monday and A. Kamacho is in the city hospital, Both men fought and Ala used a knife. Kamacho was cut across the face MONDAY, MAY on the other! Seattle Star Pages 11 to 20 | 10, 1920. ee \ GANG tI | | SOMEDAY, MAYBE LL PINCTtE THAT — DANIELS IS > CAUSTIC IN SIMS’ CASE He Scores Admiral for Be- trayal of Confidence and Charges Against Navy WASHINGTON, May 10,—The American people will never forgive Admiral Sims for bis “personal” at tack on the United States navy, Bec- retary Daniels declared today, opeme + ing his defense before the senate naval investigating committee. He expressed regret that he had ever recommended Sims for honors, The navy stands “without a trace : of the mud” with which the admiral 4 sought to bespatter it, Daniels de- . 1 Daniels read from a prepared state: ment comparing the present investi- jgation under the chairmanship of Senator Brederick Hale of Maine, with the “impartial investigation” of |naval affairs conducted some years ago by the present senator's father, | Senator Eugene Hale, now dead. HE CENTERS HIS ATTACK ON THE ADMIR. ‘ Daniels centered his first day's fire jalmost exclusively on Sims, dwelling on that officer's feelings toward Great Britain, which he declared were an “obsession,” first noticed when he “siopped over” at the Guild hall speech in 1910 by promising that |if Great Britain were ever attacked |sbe would find America ready to | shed blood in a common cause. | “I did not know until long after- wards that it was an obsession and that Admiral Sims had a mind which wenuflected to British views and die closed views of superiors in hig own country,” Daniels declared, | Against the molehills of mistakes, which Sims made into mountains, Daniels said, would stand the achieve- | MIN Valley, San Francisco's classic euburb, ix split in twain over @ clase fe dance, back and forth like shuttiecocks. Dancer's Gauzy Grecian Gown Rends in Twain Suburban Town SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.—~Troy) slope for the Boy Scouts entertain-;artists, who dwell here in numbers. | fell because of a #oman’s beauty, and | ment, and considerable of her was beauty unadorned Margaret Nicol, Titian-haired| A special meeting of the Congrega-| religious ceremoney. he gave maximum credit to British maiden of 16, is the center of a ctvic| tional church was called and a letter! As for little Miss Nicol, she says|/accomplishments while minimiging upjheaval, with the artivts’ colony| sent to Miss Nicol, in which @ cém-|she wili continue to follow in the/ America's, that he coveted British aligned on one side and the church | mittee of three advised her that the steps of Ruth St. Denis and Isadora | decorations and seemed to value them folk on the other, while adjectives |dance was “indecent, immoral and | Duncan, more than those from his own gov- like “prudish,” “Philistine” of “im-| demoralizing.” ‘The pastor and| “rf these people had paid good ernment, that he “aspired to become! moral” and “risque” are being Mung | schoo! principal spoke against it. | money to see classic dancers in a the-|% member of the British edmiralty,” DANCED ON HILL-SLOPE from your artistic standpoint,” they | al,” she says, smilingly, “Because I| merchant ships as the main opera- FOR BOY SCOUTS wrote, “but even the Greek dancing danced in the open air and s en: | ton, It came about when Mins Nicol | girls were outcasts from society.” joying myself, I am ‘immoral’ Well,| In his criticisms, Sims has “erect- ments of the nayy during the war. “The world marveled at accom- plishments which will thril? unborn generations,” he predicted. |SAYS SIMS FAILED ON SIX COUNTS Sims “did not measure up to ex- pectations” on six counts, Daniels said. He charged the admiral “lacked vision” to grasp the navy's “coldand audacious” plans such as the mine barrage, that he seemed to accept: the views of the British admiralty as superior to those of his own, that She wore a filmy costume,|Ray Boynton and McLeod Batten, painters, denied that Grecian dancers | were outcasts, and insisted that they | danced in the temples as part of the | ‘The g00d people were shocked. “You are probably looking at it/atre, they would have thought it mor. and that he viewed protection of An uproar then went up trom thet if that’s immorality, I hope I am.” /|¢d a towering structure of exaggerae danced & Grecian dance on the hill FATHER DROWNS IN WHIRLPOOL 8-Year-Old Daughter Saved Is| Pi by Andrew Monson, 4747 California | ave., who, with Jeante Aldridge, had followed the father into the stream. Half an hour the body of Aldridge was recovered from the whirlpool from which he saved his daughter but which drew him be- neath the surface and held him. she was dead before the ambulance had arrived. Mrs. Haines had been troubled with heart trouble. University Girl Dies in Hospital Ruth Protto, 19, member of the senior class in journalism at the University of Washington, died Sat- urday night at Providence hospital, ap Berkeley Is Given Census Increase WASHINGTON, May 10.—The cen- sus bureau today announced the fol- lowing 1920 population figures: Hartford, Conn., 138 increase since 1910, 39,121, or Berkeley, Cal., 55,886; increase, 15, 462, or 38.2 per cent, in BOY IS KILLED; Because cight-yearold Dorothy| William Young Ljungahl, a Uni “gp Aldridge did not mind her father,| versity of Washington student, liv. Madison st., Sunday, a driverless bem fends in crete olathe waa 3 he is dead ng la while | ing at 1920 Queen Anne ave., ie held |4utomobile, belonging to —Mr®.!to the people at the proposed special | trying to save her life . Frederick V. Brown, wife of Judge | school election was made to the ef ; A arid on an open charge Monday, pending ty sig ban om, citock ete Pe the result of Prosecuting ‘Attorney |Brown, counsel for the Great North-|counell Monday by Mayor Hugh M. daughter Jennie, 1%, little Dorothy | Eee C,, Brown's investigation Intojern railroad here, plunged dtesily|UONeT oe $140,000 will be eft and a friend, Arthur G. Arnold, of | 10 Meath @ Teinave beon killed (20W" four blocks on Madison st. | fected by this method of granting: 1022 32nd ave. N., on a fishing tetp | Beware. ea He Pons My Saturday |PAFrowly missed a dozen pedestrians, | the firemen their off-duty day, Cald- ” Sunday to the Sammamish river, |>¥ TJungahl's Motorcycle, § and came to rest against two autos| wel) declared. Dorothy ran out on a log. Her) “ening eee f Vic. /Parked ,at Seventh ave. The tem- 88 father warned her back and told| | The little boy was the san o! peramental car was unhurt, but the| There are probably a lot of good her not to do it again. Unheeding, | ‘or W: Howard, moa sie ested piad other automobiles lost a front whee!| people in the world who do not look the child ran out over the churn: | Aen age Caden pam «sod each. the part. ing water, slipped and fell, scream- eon re pi camaeied Ag once ing for help. ie "nee cant DANIELS IN-A NAVAL FRAME girl and sank She was rescued WILTON HANDS One Thing Wherein England knocking the United States, “No 4 group periences w proudly “Much better try.” She was a member of the Alpha : . ang Theta sorority, The body will be Beall Lackaye looked at hin in rent to ‘Spokane, where her mother} “won iho level, now," said the vem, for Wisma Briton, “didn't you find most things in Englaad—haw--far superior to those of this bally land?" which far surpassed what we have deah?” asked the Briton, He glanced happily at the American group, The superiority of England was to be demonstrated, (CAR RUNS WILD STUDENT HELD DOWN MADISON rosecutor Probes Motor- Rips Wheels From Other| cycle Accident Autos Running amuck at Boren ave, and tion and misrepresentation,” scan- dalouély unwarranted and officers supporting him are “largely persons with grievances,” Daniels said. Daniels highly praised Admiral Benson, who was charged by Sims with saying “we would as soon fight the British as the Germans.” Mayor Asks Vote on Firemen’s Plan Recommendation that a charter Jamendment of the two-platoon sys I ONE TO BRITON Surpasses America Filthy country,” he often repeats. ¢ for a gentleman.” Lackaye had been telling a of intimates of his ex in London, ‘The Briten »prokched the group unobserved. hen Lackaye paused he spoke up| Mr. country, what?" sald he. than this filthy coun ‘Great “I found one thing in England this country,” said Lackaye. “And what—haw—is that, old NEW YORK—J grinned his j “The Englishmen," sata Lachays.|Of the Atlantie ¥ osephus Daniels, he peered thru a p Heck, egom te return fr