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Caption: Convocation - 1942 Winter-Spring
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52 University Illinois I >iw in e ht years the Japanese began acquiring island i John [In - Gulick wrote n his diary on April 25, l£ In the har we found . . . . the Ja] n< mer i manded I believe by M '• He 1 just returned from an i lit n 1 min Isl whither the Ja] vernmenl nt a ( ny to I ss > . The) sent s 1 of their ireign built ssels > y th m c . T sh fl has I n pulled AH id w hear tl rattle the residents ha\ been taken on the *ound th ve - long n Japai iss that tin ha\ el me J This statement gives e\ lence not only of Ja] nese imperial n. bi tlso of their unscrupulous pro] . unla. and f their desire to expel wh . men fr m the Far Ea . In 1876 they opened K rea, imitating closely C mm< re Perry's ict 'it I 1 themselves. They beg n quarrelin j >mptly \ th China, wh h had cla ned suzerainty ov( K rea f r al ut three thousand y< . They attacked China in 1894, deft I her surprisingly ; n I com; lied he ) surrender all claims oxer Korea, to ce e the island of Fornn s id I pay the whole o si •:* the w r. 1 1 Crosby Greene, ther of K. B. Greene who was pr fessor v ; f hist ry in the University of Illinois for many years, wrote in l it - me J panese expected to light and defeat England within ten yt s; th they plann< 1 to I ke Hongkong and to replace the British n ntr 1 oi the Chi se cust ms service 1 that Ja; n intended t< me the mistrt — f the Pacific Oc< n. v In l he Englishman, Harold E. ( rst, sa mtiously that many e 1 p' J n's ambition to lv me the Gre Brit . of the F. will I v thin -i me; surable d .nee ne, and th her pre mi'i A will n mly injnre British I e hut will prove a ser us i her exis ce in the icific as a £reat Power. Ja nest d« min mce in Korea was delayed by the rival in -n K' I ut in 1^04 1 made a sudden attack on Russian holdings in the 1 r 1 is and g tin surprised the world by d< ea ng Russ n ve: battle on land and sea. The Peace of : >m, nth in 1 )5 ive Ja] . pn min ice in K control oi the southern half i Man ; huria, rship the southern half oi the island Sa n. Within ti\ rs the Jaj nese exti shed completely the i end md • ed that land as a pai la in. l S n aftei the outbn k of the Great War oi 1914 to l >l 1 k the German holdings at Kia w e!\ tin neutrality), 1 rly in 1915 they present Chin with the mi' wentj one Demands" wh h included in the fifth ip full ntrol of Chinese nam. police, and finance At the time the hin we: able to refuse this group oi the demands, () () At the 1 e I >nferen< f 1 1 Japan demanded and obtained
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