Feeling in Japan

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 11, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 11.

Feeling in Japan.—Dr. Carl Peters, the well-known African explorer and author, issues a warning against the Oriental issue, "Asia for Asiatics!" He declares that the British situation in India is critical, and reasserts what we have already reported of Japanese agitation. Okuma declares that 300,000,000 of the Hindus look upon Japan as their "natural protector;" that in South Manchuria the Japanese respect the open door as little as did the Russians, and ignore any rights that the British may have in those parts; that the Japanese army officers are busy in teaching Chinese, Hindu, and Siamese students how to slaughter white people scientifically and successfully; and all this notwithstanding the fact that the students are nearer related to the Indo-Germanic races than to the Mongolian. Japan's program, Dr. Peters tells us, includes the ruling of Asia. Dr. Peters also declares that there is a possibility of Japan's possessing the ambition of colonizing America, because it is a tradition generally accepted that 600 or 700 years before Christ, Chinese or Japanese landed on the shores of North America, and they feel that the whites are usurping a Japanese or Chinese province. At any rate, whatever their plans may be for the future, Dr. Peters feels that there is danger to England and America.