JAPAN, Tokio, 24th June.
Seven Professors in the Imperial University have memorialised the Foreign Office on the importance of speedily settling the Manchurian problem.
They allege that the modern complications in the field of Foreign Affairs are due chiefly to failure to utilise occasions as they have arisen, They cite first the retrocession of the Liaotung Peninsula, when Japan failed to ask for a guarantee against future alienation, Secondly, the German seizure of Kiaochou, which might have been averted by a timely protest on the part of Japan, Thirdly, the neglect to include Russia's Manchurian forces in the arrangement for the military ovacnation of North China.
They allege that Japan's armaments are probably stronger than Russia's immediately available forces, but the inferiority is only temporary, They insist on the necessity of separating the negotiations as to the Manchurian from those as to the Corean problem, and declare that considering the perpetual nature of aggression, her tenure of Manchuria will certainly be followed by enterprises against Corea, which will sarely be the preface to a further advance" southward.—Special telegram.
25th June.
Public impatience is growing daily in Japan with reference to the Manchurian question. The soberest journals are advocating resolute steps to terminate the harassing suspense which checks all peaceful development. They declare that the nation will be a unit to support the Ministry
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