AND JAPANESE sPATHuyY, The following translation, specially made for the "North-China Daily News" is of the protest sent to the Japanese Govern ment by the seven Profe-sors, Tomui, jzu, Terao, Takahushi, Nakamut and Onozuka, of the Tmpi University, Toki Success or failure in the world depends on whether we utilise our ovporiunities or not. Opportunity taken advantage of can change misfortune into prosperity, while opportunity lost may have just the reverse result. Our diplomacy regarding FarEastern affairs, since the Chino-. Jupanese War, seems to have lost its opportunity several times. For instance our Government carelessly returne! the Linotung peninsula to China without insisting on the condition that it should not be alienated to any Power, and this is the very cause of the present Manchuria question. If we had opp-sed Germany, as we could have done with righteousness and effectual power, wher she dared t seize Kiaochou Bay, with her insufficient naval force, which neither had any reserve of army, or any naval station in Chinese waters for support, she would have been surely forced to retreat and if German not take Kiaochou, certainly Russia cond have hud no pretext to request the lease of Vort Arthur and When the Boxer trouble was ovr, if the Powers had agreed to stipulate clearly x tute for evacuation to include Manchuria, Russia would have had no pretext to prolong her occupation.
Tt was our sleep regret to seo these th the results of failure to turn opportusitics to account.
here will be grave danger to the existence of the State, if our G vernment overlook the non-fulfilment of its treaty by Russia and submit to temporise with a sluggish policy when Russia i not disposed to evacuate Manchuria, though the stipulated laing so is past. We must have no lures, through such opportun we lost, first at the return of the Liaotung sta, secondly at the time of the chou seizure, and thirdly when Chihli provine: trouble. The past cannot be overtaken but we must a scheme recover on one side Ww have lost n the other; especially that ye situation in the East is one of increasing danger, and we plussage of opportunities to lose as in the past. We must not forget. that if th opportunity it hi in. Che moment is if we lose it, it will be our irre able sorrow for ever. And what plea can we set up to cwt ancestors or how face the judgment of posterity is proved y recent reports that Russia is threatening us by concentrating. her naval force in these seas, while she supplemented the construction of rail forts and batteries in Manchuria by fereased army. One day's hesitation Although away our military: secrets, we can congratulat s that our torve, compared wit Russia superior for a year fom now. If we fail to take advantage of this opportunity our damage will be irreparable for several of years. Although Russi ree is inferior to ours. she is now acting as audaciously and shamelessly as though she were Mistress in. the Fast, by despising treaties, instigating hors-d-robbers, sending disguised soldiers into Corea, and devising to get the lease of some important point in Corea. It is, needless te say what she intends. when she has usured herself of victory over any antagonis: If she gets. footing in Manchuria, she will surely covet Cores; and when the latter has fallen into her hands, the next step to bz taken by her is clear enough.
These are the reasons why we must solve the Manchurian question with a ri: ht perception of its roots. At this moment Heaven gives us ample prospect of victory; we have the geographical advantage while Russi his not yet a stable footing in the East; we have harmony among our people, who are unanimously ready to fight Russia; neglect the moment is to endanger the great achievements ofourancestors and mit the p-asperity of our descendants.
Diplomacy, of course, needs a d-liberate consideration, and we must carefully me vestigate the dispositions of England, the United States, Germany and France, but the attitudes of these countries are alma-t plain. That of England will be decided by the interpretation of the Anglo Japanese ngreenient, and it is needless therefore to assure ourselves of her disposition sine the agreement stipulates that England will keep strict neutrality if Japan fights only one country. Moreover there has been ample occasion to discover her attitude since the Sth April, on which date Russia was to evacuate Manchuri:
cement that Corea mast by ne put under the influence of any other coun try would be reasonable, but if we want to protect Corea we must nob leave Manchuria in Russian hands. must by already understood that to place the disputing point in Manchuria would be quite different from placing it in Russia, of course, seems disposed to Ie ate the question in Corea with the inference that Manchar her hands. But the solution of the present Eastern que-tion must involve the keeping into of Manchuria; if we yield a step to Russia and let her get ty Corea, she will easily go 'a step further.
After all the Manchu should be discussd with Corea. If we yield and restrict our interests in Manchuria in order to yet a trifling. nominal interest in Corea the last state of affairs will be worse than the present condition. To discuss the question di point, the to say arity. es not mean t transference: district to The ment for returf its second article that: "The Chinese Gover agrees in and. administration Manchuria to recognise the period of contract aad other terms agreed upon with the Russo-Chinese Bi nk} to protect railways and officials in accordance with the fifth article of the agreement; wud also to be responsible for the protection of Russian subjects resident in Manchuria and the safety of their works." And in the fifth article of the agreement with the Russo-Chiness Bink it is stipulated that "Railways and men on the railway shall be protected by the Chinese Government, who shall make regulations," e'c.
Itisclear enough then that the Manchurian railway i< to be protected in accordance with Chinese regulations, which have never recognised that the railw to be protected by Russinn tro. ps. meaning of evacuation is, therefore, the clearing away of all troops without exception, and Russia's action
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