is an extremist of extremists from a Japanese point of view, although he and the Nationalist party which he commands only profess to be ready to fight for the maintenance of China's integrity, a moderate enough profession from our way of looking at it. His party is very small, however, and is harried by the Gover ment almost as much as its namesake in "che distressful country." Nor has it much influence with the people at large. It held a series of public meetings Intely in Tokio with the object of giving the anti-Russian section of the population a chance of making itself heard. All these meetings were failures, however; some of them were attended only by the orators and their personal friends.
VISCOUNT AOKI, recently Minister of Foreign Affairs, has also spoken hotly during the last few days, but ho is put down by the Japanese generally as an extremist and has no following.
Having given this estimate of the three most prominent Russophobists, I shell now proceed to report what they said.
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