Show american consul general declared excitable and hard to deal with pekin april 9 0 the am american alcan legation here has received no information regarding the invasion of the american consulate at murden mukden by japanese and the resultant encounter between the japanese and the native staff of the consulate the japanese legation also was questioned and a partial verification was ivas obtained together with expressions of regret that such a small matter should have been cabled to the united states an official of the japanese legation quoted a japanese newspaper published in mukden as saying that willard D straight the american consul general there was an excitable man given to exaggerating trifles and difficult to deal with otherwise the legation minimized the occurrence and deplored it A court of inquiry has been ordered by nf kato the japanese consul general at mukden and a full report will not be submitted to either washington or pekin pending the report of this court it Is hoped that this investigation will lead to an acceptance cep tance of 0 proper reparation A detailed account of the incident has been obtained from an authoritative source this shows that the conduct of M kato in the beginning might be described as extraordinary it is even said paid that he was insolent when the matter was brought to his attention he offered no apology nor did he be express regret and he asked mr straight to prove his bis own statements as against the verbal declarations of the japanese thugs involved this mr straight declined to do but he permitted a japanese official to examine the scene of the onslaught and to conduct an investigation a the allegation that M kato showed lack of consideration in hta his relations with the american consul general has bas created a bad impression here mr straight twice made formal representations of the seriousness of invading a consulate protected by tho the flag and dragging the servants of the consulate out into the highways at the second presentation IL ka tos re spouse was more cordial but ho he sought to discredit mr straights protest by tho the declaration of a postman that the staff of the consulate had attacked him while the postman was waa bringing it a letter to the consulate unfortunately he sought to enter the building near a private door which was barred and encountered encounter ked the opposition of the chinese servants of the consulate at that point mr straight intervened and referred tho the postmark post marf malf to the main entrance tho the postman wept away to return in a short ti time me with the japanese who made the at abc tack the consulate servants armea with sticks offered resistance the postman post manIn in the course of the scuffle le entered mr lr straights bedroom bed room and hit one of his pera personal onal servants in the face while 0 this was going ort on the post mans accomplices had keen been captured by the three other servants the postman made an attempt to call iri in reinforcements but in this he was not successful in the meantime the chinese police had arrived on the scene boone and the invading japanese were arrested the police were not ot of much use for mr straight found it necessary personally to guard the prisoners with a firearm in his hand and thus to convoy them before M kato persons who witnessed the en encounter court say the postman was at the head of his four or 0 r five countrymen who created the disturbance and that during the row a number of disreputable japanese gathered in the street and menaced the consulate na M kato was in bed when mr air straight and his prisoners arrived at the consulate and aid this fact may possibly explain his apathy in the matter the Jp japanese anese police made no r response to mr straights appeals for ild aid the consulate at mundon unlike the ew others in china was not provided in with a stand of rifles fifles and revolvers consequently its only recourse for protection lies in an appeal to the Jara caranese Ja nose the chinese all authorities thor at mukden are thoroughly intimidated timi dated by the japanese and the chinese invariably flee from any difficulty that promises trouble with a foreigner satisfaction to Is expressed in that the outrage was not actually committed on the person of the Aral american rican consul general this incident has brought out the reference to the fact that last january the german consulate at murden was subjected to trespass and outrage at the hands of japanese and that japan showed reluctance to meto mete out punishment and give reparation |