The drift of the article is that Japan has no right to interfere between Russia sand China, Russia holds Manchuria by reason of her possession of a railway there sand in order to prevent. another Boxer @eturbance. "What right, then," asks the editor of the "Novi Kral" (I translate his remarks freely; later on I shall send you a careful translation of them), What right, then, has Japan to put her finger in this pie? By reason of ner interests in Manchuria? On account of the large numbers of her people who are settled there? Stuff and nonsense plea were once admitted we should have Japan claiming a right to interfere in the internal affairs of A
Philippines and wherever tlapiuese are settled. Japan talks of the necessity of an outlet for her surplus population. If she wants such an outlet, she has Formosa. But Formosa is poor and Japan lias no money to develop it. She would prefer to exploit a country which has already been opened up by a vast expenditure of Russian brain power, money, and blood."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.