Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-09-02 | Page 1 | Japan Shocked by Bad Usage

JAPAN SHOCKED BY BAD USAGE I Non-Combatants in Germany Imprisoned American Charge Enters Protest in Berlin. AMBASSADOR IS STONED Result of Unbridled A.buse of Japanese Diplomat in Vienna Vien-na Newspapers Courtesies Court-esies in Japan. lukio. Sept. 2 -The foreign office today issued a statement in which the treatment ot Japanese In Germany Ger-many is described This announcement announce-ment declares that as early as August Au-gust 8, the Germans began watching all Japanese In German The Japa-n Japa-n ie 1 barge d'affaires at Berlin advised ad-vised his nationals to leave the conn-to conn-to a number did depart, but on the expiration of the Japane: - ultimatum the German authorities took Into custody cus-tody Of' Japanese and pu, them in prison, claiming that this action was taken for their "protection." The civil authorities gave the Japanese charge permission to seo his Imprisoned countrymen, but the (military authorities refused to let him do so It was impossible to obtain ob-tain their names, and the American ambassador at Berlin. James W Gerard, who represents Japanese interests in-terests protested at this situation. Th foreign Office statement declares de-clares also that the train on which the Japanese ambassador left ienna was stoned and several of Its windows win-dows were broken This outrage, it Bays, was a result of the unbridled abuse of Japan in the Vienna newspapers. news-papers. This report comes a something ot a shock to the public here, particularly particu-larly as Germans and Austrians have been treated with every consideration and courtesy by the Japanese oo