The Secret Treaty Between Japan and Germany
(July 28, 1919)
A Reuters teletype from Paris states, “Recently there have once again been rumors
abroad of a secret treaty between Japan and Germany.” What kind of a thing is a
secret treaty? What presumptuous persons are thinking of making an appearance on
the international scene tomorrow? Above all, what is the secret treaty between Japan
and Germany? The secret treaty between Japan and Russia was publicized by the
Lenin government and not only failed to be concluded, but caused a great loss of face.
The secret treaty between Japan, England, and France did go through, and is a threat
to our Shandong Province. The year before last there were several rumors of some kind
of secret treaty between Japan and Germany. It was said that in 1917 Germany gave
Japan permission to occupy the Dutch colonies at will, including Java and Sumatra,
but the British government heard about it, and informed Holland, so the plot was
stopped. We must realize that Japan and Germany are a couple of dogs, male and
female, that have tried to mate on a number of occasions, and that although they
87 See above, the article dated July 14, 1919, “The Rhine Republic is a Grotesque Country.”
88 General Jan Christiaan Smuts, Minister of Defense of the Union of South Africa, represented
that country in the delegation acting for the British Crown.
haven’t made it up to now, their lusting after each other will never go away. If the
militarist adventurers of the authoritarian Japanese government are not exterminated,
if the German Ebert government is not overthrown by revolution, and if this lustful
stud and lascivious bitch are still not separated, the danger will be truly great.