Deseret Evening News | 1908-02-29 | Page 5 | Another War Scare

WAI Alt SOU This country It II Is asserted In u a Washington dispatch Is about to pre prepare pl pi pure pare a formal protest against Japanese usurpation of at territory In Manchuria Our OUI government has his front from tho first In iii Insisted slated on tire tho policy In China Chinn and unil It Is under ulder moral morl obligation to pro protest protest protest test against any attempt to ignore Igor that thal policy I 1 but It tl Is I under no compact to fight Chinas battles so SQ It If a I protest Is itt II ineffective It will wt have havo hl vc no further consequences The Te Japanese govern government ment knows this and the protest It If It I materializes will wi bo be politely acknowledged acknowledged edged and havo hoe no further cono It I Is ie I claimed clame that thal both Japan and Russia aro am ar Ignoring tho the Portsmouth treaty treat The Chinese government It tt see seems in H has hal complained In Washington and ant our government can cl do no tie less lesto than endeavor to exert Its I it moral Influence with wih Japan and to ask Isk other powers to todo todo toito do ito the seine same salo for or Chinas protections protection Our OUI war ships may nut not have love been die dis dispatched patched to time the Pacific to give emphasis to ti the time promised protest but pres pros presence ence eneR there thero will wi nevertheless greatly geat aid Ild our diplomats In their endeavors for tor forthe forthe the tho maintenance of at peace And It thu tire Japanese are uro made to go slow alow now no time the time lime may ma conic come when whan the tho Chinese can defend themselves They Thoy are developing very er fast tast The This Japanese are arc not nol pop popular popular ular In Sn China China There Th ro will wi bo be another war wa scare If I time the protest Is sent ent out from Washington Washing ton But thought though It II will wi not mean mean war It Is lit II just as I well wel to follow the course courso CUto of or events In III eastern Asia