How International: Animosities Are Bred: No Antagonism to Americans in Japan and No Public Demonstrations Prom Our Own Tokyo, June 30.
American papers that have just tenched "Japan possess exaggerate and misleading accounts of the Imperial Hotel episode when'
dozen hooligans broke up a. dance at the Imperial Hotel on June 7. These reports are follow-the plain and simple truth is no Americans have been maltreat ed in Japan. Americans go about their usual duties just as they have done, though a certain amount of tenneness, largely due to the individual's point view and mental state, can be read on the faces of some.
Week-ends take Americans out of the city many miles into the interior.
felled on a train to Nikko, correspondents in Tokyo. I called on the heads of a British and of an 'American firm—two of. the largest foreign firms in Tokyo—to ascertain their' views on the subject. The former declared that he was "bitterly disappointed" at the "penchant shown for sensation," while the American director was blunt and said he was "totally disgusted."
'A report that might have reached China too during the first week of June spoke of "the anti-American feeling in Tokio having reached its greatest climax in a day of demonstrations to-day (June 5)."
Tt was a day of demonstrations certainly, but it happenned to be the City of Tokio's celebrations of the Prince Regent's marriage, the farewell to the former U.S. Ambassador Mr. Cyrus E. Woods, while the only] anti-American demonstration on that day was at a meeting held by some reactionaries in the Wrestling Thea-_ tre, at Ryogoku, on the banks of} the River Sumida, The tens of the magnificent. mau: Tokugawa shoguns, last week end. In the same large bogie compartment were three young Americans and quite a number of Japanese of all classes. The Americans whiled away the "hours playing—auctfon "The conductor passed the li times, and, although would have been perfectly. justified in asking them to cease their game of cards, gambling in any form, whether for fun or otherwise, is] taboo in Japan, they carried on thei game till they thousands out were there because the city was rejoicing and was in festive garb and to express bon voyage to Mr. Woods. The meeting to discuss the immigration problem was said to have been attended by some 25,000 persons, and there is! no doubt that a large proportion of this number went to this meeting [because they were out for the two reasons and wanted to take in all the excitement the day had to offer. Besides, 25,000 at a Tokio mass meeting is not by any means large. I have seen 60,000 to 75,000]
a labour meeting or at a with the Ministry" demonstration there is-far from a desire to make Americans feel uncomfortable. hho are trying to make citizens the United States uneasy! fare the hotheads, not those in thority, as far as one can judge by careful observation.
"The reports reaching the United States in regard to alleged misdemean ours of the Japanese public bear a striking family resemblance, This fo coally realized when itis remembered that most of the American correspondents here come from one place, the majority club together, find work together. Thus, there fan interchange of ideas trid sentiment, when sheer independence in feach'one making out his own reports and basing them on actuali-Hes instead of hazardous guesses and rumours is of paramount necessity.
"Log Pulling" in Excelsis, Fiendish mischief is, also. having! its place in the present excitement, A group of American newspaper men were recently discovered state. bordering on. semi-panic, because they had received "nuthentle reports" that all American ho would be raided that night, Ameri-teans ejected and that they might for even live to "morrow's sun. The ridiculousness "of whole thing was that most of these young men who were talking. of guarding their snered homes talked Jha loud voice of where the holster with the Colt: automatic was hang. ing and its contents. "Even more lous was the fact that no one position to shoot at all—one shooting straight—while 4 did not seem to dawn on any that the precinets of @ hotel, miles from where they live, was hardly the Proper place to guard inviolate their sacred homes.
It all turned out afterwards to cell, that there is type of "log pulling" that the law will always frown upon. This incident shows the-frame of mind in which some of, the younger Americans are, frame of mind that might find its way into cables which are sent off post-haste, but which—will—or ought—not to find their way into the calmer articles that follow when the first flush of excitement has disappeared and the real per~ spective of the events under consideration can be rightly guaged.
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