Show 9 7 1 f Japanese Honor Bonar THE HE Japanese are a strang strange race to us us l. l and some Americans fear feir that some some day dayi i we have have to go to war Var with the them n. n Here Hefe is a a little tittle story abo about t a Japanese j. j culled from the press dispatches that is worth thinking about not about not in connection l the between and America p possibility of war Japan t c use it throws such a revealing light on Ja Japanese pes nese character S Afew A few days ago there was much trouble at al Na in china l ina While British and Arp American Amer ri r- r i ican al war warships hips bombarded the city to protect their J nationals a Japanese vessel firing no no guns guLls guns s sent t a a conti contingent gent ashore to rescue e the theS S Jap Japanese consul S This This contingent was commanded by a lieutenant named Araki He went unarmed un- un armed as did his followers determined ned t to td S I J id bloodshed His mission was was successful 1 rescued the consul and neither he nor any o t the sailors in his command was molested w 5 But when he had returned to his ship he heS S v to Wrote to his commander as follows S 3 In order to insure the safety of the Japanese Japa Japa- S nese residents nese de residents at I 1 endured from the the Chin Ghin Chinese se se ins insults which no Japanese can toler- toler S ate aJ h The he lives of the Japanese refugees should be be saved butI but am ashamed that the honor honorof 5 A of t the e Japanese navy has be disgraced in iti S my my person V r Having written this he took the one course ourse courseS S gp open to li to a a Japanese whose honor has been offe offended lie he he killed himself By no stretch of the imag imagination ll can you Imagine an American or British naval officer J that Our entire philosophy is differ differ- Y vent i L from Japans S And what a philosophy that is It is isS I S Spartan ruthless if you wish yet t U il is s impossible to read that little littI story with- with S S But being convinced that there must be some some- something m thi thing g extremely fine about a race rac that can cani i maintain l in Such uch a philosophy A j ii nation with men me like Li Lieutenant Araki S o ri Somewhere It it deserves to It n also J is 1 issa nation worth being friendly with w not y because of policy but because it t h has hasA s A something to offer us spiritually S A |