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THE CLOVIS NEWS f HIS la the rear of triumph (or Japan. It Is especially the year of triumph for Pre mier Bhlgenobu Okuma, leader of the party of the people, and for hi war cry, "Aila for the Asiatics." There has been a little discontent at the "compro mise" with China. This was bound to be so la the most war like nation on earth. But Japanese who are better Informed know there has been no compromise. Group V may have been left "for later discus sion," but the Japanese leaders will exact every demand embodied In It from time to time. Thus Okuma, the one-legged grand old man of Japan, sees his great Idea coming to fruition. He knows the Japanese people will willingly spend their blood like water. All Japan has needed for conquest Is money. Japa nese strategy Is not of the year or the decade, but of the century and the millennium. Money, but not enough, has come out of Korea and South Manchuria. Money money for bat tleships and siege guns, for sub marines and aeroplanes will now flow from China Into Japan, Centuries ago untutored Japan made conquests on the mainland and adopted Chinese culture. Sixty years ago she threw off the culture of Japan for the efficiency of the West. Now she will go a step farther and with Iron fist Impose western efficiency on China. Modern wars are fought with fac tories. With 400,000,000 Chinese la boring to supply munitions of war In ber rear, sixty millions of Japanese will present the front of their warrior nation to the white race and tell It to get out of the western Pacific and some day will tell the French to get out of Cochin China and the Brit ish to get out of India. These are the alms of Okuma. They are not hazy national aspirations, but active policies that Japan Is working every minute of her time to carry out. Okuma proclaimed them openly and loudly when he was of the party of the opposition. On this platform of mili tarism he won his campaign in the spring of 1914 and ousted the Yama moto party. For a year he has been In control and his hold Is stronger than ever. Being at the head of the nation his words soften. He exudes honey to Great Britain and sends messages breathing the spirit of peace to the United States. Japan is not deceived. They have long seen these two ir reconcilable currents of expression flow from Okuma's mouth and they know which one to believe. They be lieve only the one which accords with the spirit of the samurai, the "two sword man." In Japan bcth the nobles and the commoners are militaristic. Okuma Is a noble, but be has chosen to lead the commoners. Perhaps this is be cause he came from neither of the two leading clans which for many years controlled Japan, but of weaker clan, the lllzen. Throughout his life he has fought against the clan sys tem and In favor of the constitutional monarchy, now for years strongly e tabll8hed. At sevenly-seven, Okuma Is still fiery and energetic. He was a boy of twenty, living In a small Japanese town, when the visit of Commodore Perry and the granting of treaty rights to foreigners by the shogun set all Japan to talking about the "red haired" barbarians. Okuma had a great curiosity to learn about the world outside Japan. He heard of an American missionary, Doctor Veer beck, and went to htm secretly not to embrace Christianity, but to learn. First of all he learned to read the Bible. Then came the one political document the devoted missionary pos sessed, the Declaration of Indepen dence His soul was set on lire. When seventy years old, he said: "The read ing of the Declaration of Independence when I was a boy made such an Im pression upon my soul that the doc trines proclaimed by It have ever been my guiding rule In life." Thomas Jefferson became bis model and he studied everything he could find about the American statesman. In his youth came the great Jap anese civil wars between the mikado's party and the old feudalists. Okuma left school and plunged Into the thick of the fray. The mikado's party, hav Ing adopted western military tactics, won Its battle, and the mikado was es tablished as snpreme In Tokyo. Oku ma was put In a position In the office of foreign ""r'.-s. The intrlcacres of Japanese politics In the last half of the nineteenth cen tury are difficult for an American to understand without long study. Suffi cient to say that Okuma was In the FAMOUS IN ENGLISH HISTORY C.-.r.terbury Cathsdrsl a Point of In terest Thst Hss Few Equals In ths World. The only king buried In Cauieruury cathedral Is Henry IV. and his tomb Ik on one side of the place of the rhrlne. On the other Is the tomo of Edward the Black Prince. Above bim hangs the armor which he wore. The ancient stone coffin of Hubert Walter, rm I 7 - I 10 - i II middle of everything, fighting first for the mikado and later for a represen tative parliament to which the minis ters should be responsible. The gov ernment In 1881 promised to summon a national diet, grant a constitution and limit the Imperial prerogative In 1890. Okuma then formed the Pro gressive party, forerunner of the pres ent National party, and was for many years Its president. Aside from his constant political ac tivities, he founded Waseda univer sity In Tokyo In 1882 and was for many years its president. He saw It grow to house 6.400 stude!:'.;. ""''h flrst-cluBs baseball team. It was not until Japan had settled her domestic troubles and put her house In order that the foreign policy developed. In this line progress has been perhaps faster than in Importing western ways of manufacture and liv ing. And It was after the great victory over Russia, following the easy hum bling of China, that Okuma's really truculent utterances began to appear. In 1908, when Japan was troubled by the Vnited Slates sending the American fleet into the Pacific, he said to an American newspaper man: "Nothing can be more dreaded than crazy people, and the Japanese are a crazy nation. In fighting they will go on like mad, as was well Illustrated In the late war. The Japanese are al ways ready to throw away their lives for the glory of the state; they regard PIRATES IN CHINESE WATERS Freebooters Extend Thslr Operations to Land Expeditions, and Fre quently Loot Villages!. A favorite form of freebootlng In Chinese waters takes the form or river piracies. The pirates themselves are, unlike their deep-water outlaw brethren, more of the jackal type, slinking, cowardly, but still murder oua and deadly whenever they fall In with unarmed parties. They Infest the shallow rivers, creeks snd canals which cut In from the China coast The big Junks, In nse by the deep sea freebooters, are of no earthly good In shallow waters, and so the river robbers make use of light-draft craft known locally as "fust crabs" and "scrambling dragons." The West river near Canton Is a favorite ground for these shallow-water freebooters, al though the great Yangtse-Klang river Is also InfeBted with them. In their little craft they navigate without trouble over the shallows and rapids Inland as far as Chungking, which Is more than 1.000 miles from the coast, and Instead of preying upon the merchant ships and steamers of the deep, they loot villages, murder travelers, massacre whUe concession aires, and cause untold trouble to the missionaries, of whom there are many hundreds In this part of Inland China. And It Is against these river pirates .,,. i. ,! Hint tha activities of the little Palos and .Vonocacy will te rected. Fc,- hOVfc.oi years fcngisni, ffC.TOany and Japan maintained light-draft river boats for use against the pirates and now the United States follows their example. China, too, will soon add sev eral vessels of a similar type to her service. During the last four years several citizens of the United States have been murdered by Chinese pirates. created archbishop by Richard I on the Held of Acre, always Interests tourists, for as chancellor he raised the ransom for bis king. In the warriors' chspel Is the tomb of Archbishop Stephen Langton, who I'd the barons in their struggle sg'inst King John, compelling him to grunt the Magna Charts. When Henry VIII separated the English church from Rome he emptied the wealth of the cathedral Into tha king's treasury; otherwise the tourist would be permitted to view a vast y V III SB SH SSl III III their lives as light as the weather. On the other hand. Americans and Eu ropeans attach too much Importance to money; those who love money love their lives. Sup pose the Americans and Japanese wboBe Ideas of death are fundamentally different should come to fighting. The final result will be easily foretold." Although not so truculent Just at present Count Okuma for several years in the caucuses of his party, in his newspaper organs, and In the fa miliar conversations which he was wont to hold with the former pupils of his great school, had a habit of speak ing of the United States very much as he spoke of Russia In the years before the war, as a great power which will have to be humbled to se cure the salvation of Japan. Even before the Russian war the count said: "A Japanese muBt be re spected wherever he goes. We yield to no one, not even to the Romans. In pride In citizens and citizenship." The British probably have not for gotten Okuma's famous outburst lu which be said: "Beiiii ounressed by the Europeans, the three hundred million people of India are looking for Japanese protec tion. The Jauanese ought to go 10 India, the South ocean and the other parts of the world. Nor will anyone who knows Japan's history doubt that she Intends to hold Klauchau, the Carolines, Marianne and Marshall Islands In the South Pacific. She took these from Germany and al ready some capital Is being invested and experts have been sent from the ministries of agriculture and com' merce to study the question of the ex. ploltatlon of these Islands. WHERE MEN LIVE AND FIGHT Visitor to ths German Trenches De scribes Thslr Construction and Arrangements. Three hours later I was In the Ger man trench at Ia Bassee. When 1 bad accustomed myself to the steady cwV't of rifles In the firing pits, wmcb f could not see, but which 1 knew must be close by; when I bad nervously counted the bursting of 10 shells, all la an appalling few min utes, yet had heard no plop of frag ments burying themselves Into the mud above, I began to be able to look about me. I was standing In a pit about seven feet deep and barely wide enough for two passing men to squeeze by. By turning my indispen sable electric torch this way and that I could see in the rear wall of the trench a series of caves dug In the earth, their entrances so low that a man would have to enter them on hands and knees. In some I saw the faint yellowish gutter of candles and others were pitch dark. But in the front wall of the trench thero were cut, at Intervals so short that the plaee seemed a catacomb, narrow passages that led to (Tie shooting pits, recesses not more than Ave feet wide, re-enforced at the level of ths ground with sandbags and armor: and on either side of these approach sMKn j ,fcW the holes In " . rth in which men r"t d lived, and ate when they len 1 ,n the ,lts' the,r un ,oward tne enemy. At the lieutenant's sug gestion I went down Into one of ths caves. "Iater," he said, "you won't want to be moving around much. It'll get hot ter then, and you'll want to remain In one place where you're sure the shel ter Is good." The Christian Herald. Yorkshire has 12.000 looms weaving kbakl. amount of priceless gifts left at the shrine. Cromwell once stabled the horses of his army In the church, and the marks of the hoofs are plainly discernible In the nave. When visiting England make a pil grimage to Canterbury, for this old cathedral, begun in 1070, Is rich with historical Interest, snd In Its archi tectural features can be tracea the building of the English empire. Her archbishops wielded a mighty Influ ence to the time of the Reformation. SUPERSTITION V AA-1 house, fate being thus vetoed, according to the tradition governing It. And all this was done. Washington was surprised to see the old Morton house go down, for old though It was, It was still one of the great houses of Washington. It stood on Scott Circle, occuping a whole triangular block and Imposing in Its mass of prersed red brick, the whole treated In Queen Anne style. Here In his day Mr. Morton has entertained lavishly, for be Is many times a millionaire. HEIR TO GREEK THRONE Should death be the result of the Illness of King ConBtantlne of Greece, it will bring to the throne one of the most soldierly young princes of Eu rope's young royalty. Crown Prince George, the oldest son of- King Con stantino and Queen Sophia, saw serv ice In the two Balkan wars and gained a reputation for bravery and valorous performance. He was wounded in action at Janina. Until the present war he enjoyed the distinction of be ing the only heir to a European throne who bore the scars of battle. He is twenty-five years old. Reports conflict as to the stand Prince George takes concerning the great European war now going on. One has it that the heir apparent has been Identified with the war pnrty and Is an intimate friend of ex-Premier Eleutheriqs Venizelos, who resigned recently as head of the Greek cabinet because the king was not In sympathy with the allies. This report bIbo car ried the prediction that In the event of King Constantlne's death the new monarch would at once summon Venizelos to form a cabinet, a course which would be tantamount to the entry of Greece into the war. On the other hand, the sympathies of the crown prince In the present struggle are said to be on the side of Germany. This report guins credence from the facts of his German kinship and German education and military training. His mother, the queen, is a sister of Kaiser Wllhelin. The king was also educated In Germany and received his military training there. BOUGHT WINDOW DISPLAY hi' ' fc r 1:7 anxious to know Just why the pictures of some more or less LEADER OF WOMAN LABORERS Once there was an eager little German girl, of whom, perhaps, you could And traces In the brave, forceful face of Emma Steghagen, labor lead er, delegate to the recent convention of the National Women's Trade Union league at New York. You might find a suggestion of the thin, emotional child in the figure, bowed by factory labor, yet energetic with the spirit of protest. This little girl lived before woman suffrage had become a national Issue, before the serious magazines were pro ducing special suffrage issues, even before the cartoons were exploiting the "suffragette" yet In her own mind she had evolved the theory that women bad a right to suffrage and to labor organization. She was only fourteen when the time came for her to stop school and go to work In the factory. "I was miserable at the time," said Miss Steghagen, In telling tha story, "fcr it was my ambition to be a schoolteacher, which was, of course. Impossible, since my father was a laborer. One of the things which I havs to be thankful for in life Is that I did not realize this ambition; that I was able to champion the cause of labor from the laborer's standpoint. I was bound to have devoted my life to this work of organizing the woman work ers, snd my usefulness has been Increased tenfold because I havs been a boot-and-shoc worker myself for twenty-five yesr " OF MR. MORTON Levi P. Morton, vice-president un der the second President Harrison, who has Just celebrated his ninety first birthday, has successfully weath ered a superstition, over which he Is congratulating himself as much as over the fact that he is well on tho way to a full century of life. When eighty nine years old he wanted to live In a new house In Washington, which ho bad determined upon as his winter residence, giving up New York city, where he bad lived. He also wished to have the house on the sita of the one be had occupied w hile vice presi dent and which 'he owned. He was aware, however, of the superstition that when a man pulls down an old home of his and displuceB It with a new house he la likoly to die In it In the course of the first year of his oc cupation of U- Nevertheless he was determined to have the new house, and to get around the superstition used some of the old walls in thn new An interesting story is being told in Washington about Mr. John R. Mc Lean. Mr. McLean is very fond of taking walks downtown In the busi ness district, disdaining the use of any automobile or carriage, as a rule, when he wishes to go from one place to another, or to take the air In a saunter along the crowded thorough fares. 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