Tokio, January 22.
-While admitting that the partici-of British capitalists in the minton-Fakumen Railway project may be due to their ignorance of Japanese Treaty rights, Baron Hayashi, Japanese Minister at' Peking, has renewed his. protest against the conclusion by China Joan ut with." British yadicate. for.the construction of railway. - The. Japanese hold that the proposed railway, although 36 miles away from the' Japanese railway, constitutes a competitive Fine in' view. of the scarcity of, freight and passengers in the thinly populated territory. of South. Manchuria.—Qur Own. Correspondent. tives and the Our Own Correspondent.
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